1014

This article is about the year 1014. For the number, see 1014 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1011 1012 1013 – 1014 – 1015 1016 1017

The Battle of Kleidon - July 29. The Byzantines under emperor Basil II defeat the Bulgarians (top). Tsar Samuel dying in front of his blinded soldiers (bottom), from the Manasses Chronicle.

1014 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1014 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1014 MXIV
Ab urbe condita	1767
Armenian calendar	463 ԹՎ ՆԿԳ
Assyrian calendar	5764
Bengali calendar	421
Berber calendar	1964
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1558
Burmese calendar	376
Byzantine calendar	6522–6523
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 3710 or 3650     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3711 or 3651
Coptic calendar	730–731
Discordian calendar	2180
Ethiopian calendar	1006–1007
Hebrew calendar	4774–4775
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1070–1071
- Shaka Samvat	936–937
- Kali Yuga	4115–4116
Holocene calendar	11014
Igbo calendar	14–15
Iranian calendar	392–393
Islamic calendar	404–405
Japanese calendar	Chōwa 3 (長和３年)
Julian calendar	1014 MXIV
Korean calendar	3347
Minguo calendar	898 before ROC 民前898年
Seleucid era	1325/1326 AG
Thai solar calendar	1556–1557

Year 1014 (MXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• February 3 – Sweyn Forkbeard, Danish King of all England since December 25 last, dies at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, and his son Cnut is proclaimed King of England by the Vikings.
• February 14 – Pope Benedict VIII recognizes and crowns Henry of Bavaria (who has ruled since 1003) as King of Germany.
• March – Æthelred the Unready returns from exile in Normandy to reclaim the throne of England at the invitation of English nobles.
• April – Cnut returns to Denmark to enforce his rule there.
• April 23 – Battle of Clontarf: Gaelic Irish forces under Brian Boru defeat several allied Viking forces in Ireland. However, Brian is killed in the battle.
• July – Battle of Thessalonica fought in Greece: forces of the Byzantine Empire under Theophylact Botaneiates defeat those of the First Bulgarian Empire.
• July 29 – Battle of Kleidion: Basil II, leading forces of the Byzantine Empire, inflicts not only a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent blinding of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock, and earns Basil II the sobriquet Boulgaroktonos ("Bulgar-slayer").
• Holmgang is declared illegal in Norway.

Asia

• In Kashmir, Abhinavagupta, the teacher of the poet Ksemendra, circulates his Greater commentary on the Pratyabhijna Darshana.

Africa

• Hammad ibn Buluggin recognises the Abbasid Caliphate, beginning the split of the Hammadids from the Zirids.

By topic

Religion

• The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Symbol of the Faith is used for the first time during the Roman Mass after Henry II, the newly crowned Holy Roman Emperor, asks the Pope to add it together with the filioque clause. Prior to this date, the Creed has not been used at all during the liturgy.
• In England, Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York preaches his Latin homily Sermo Lupi ad Anglos ("Wulf's Address to the English"), describing the Danes as "God's judgement on England".

Births

• Al-Bakri, Andalusian Muslim geographer and historian (d. 1094)
• Princess Constance, daughter of Robert II of France (d. 1052)

Deaths

• February 3 – Sweyn I Haraldsson Forkbeard, king of Denmark
• April 23 – Brian Boru, high king of Ireland
• June 25 – Æthelstan Ætheling, eldest son of Æthelred the Unready
• August – Theophylact Botaneiates, Byzantine general and governor of Thessalonica
• October 6 – Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria
• Sigurd the Stout, Viking earl in Orkney
• King Raja Raja Chola I, of the Chola Empire of southern India and great temple builder of the Chola dynasty