1072

This article is about the year 1072.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1040s  1050s  1060s  – 1070s –  1080s  1090s  1100s
Years:	1069 1070 1071 – 1072 – 1073 1074 1075

1072 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1072 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1072 MLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1825
Armenian calendar	521 ԹՎ ՇԻԱ
Assyrian calendar	5822
Bengali calendar	479
Berber calendar	2022
English Regnal year	6 Will. 1 – 7 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1616
Burmese calendar	434
Byzantine calendar	6580–6581
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 3768 or 3708     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 3769 or 3709
Coptic calendar	788–789
Discordian calendar	2238
Ethiopian calendar	1064–1065
Hebrew calendar	4832–4833
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1128–1129
- Shaka Samvat	994–995
- Kali Yuga	4173–4174
Holocene calendar	11072
Igbo calendar	72–73
Iranian calendar	450–451
Islamic calendar	464–465
Japanese calendar	Enkyū 4 (延久４年)
Julian calendar	1072 MLXXII
Korean calendar	3405
Minguo calendar	840 before ROC 民前840年
Seleucid era	1383/1384 AG
Thai solar calendar	1614–1615

Year 1072 (MLXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• January 10 – The Normans conquer Palermo in Sicily.
• May 27 – The Accord of Winchester establishes the primacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury over the Archbishop of York in the Church of England.
• June 29 – Romanos IV Diogenes, deposed ruler of the Byzantine Empire, is blinded and sent into exile at the Monastery of the Transfiguration, Kinaliada.
• William I of England invades Scotland, and also receives the submission of Hereward the Wake.
• Osbern FitzOsbern becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• Dunfermline Abbey is founded – later to become the burial place of several Kings of Scots, including Robert the Bruce. The associated royal palace will be the birth place of King Charles I.
• Alfonso VI becomes king of Leon and Castile following the assassination of his brother Sancho.
• Divan'ı Lügat'ı Türk. An informative book written by Kaşgarlı Mahmut of Karakhanids to be presented to Caliph, about Turks.

Asia

Guo Xi, Early Spring

• The Song dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.
• Shen Kuo is sent to supervise Chancellor Wang Anshi's program of surveying the building of silt deposits in the Bian Canal outside the capital city of Kaifeng. Using an original technique, Shen successfully dredges the canal and demonstrates the formidable value of the silt gathered as a fertilizer.

Births

• Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Bertha of Savoy (d. 1143)
• Tancred, Prince of Galilee, Norman leader of the First Crusade (d. 1112)

Deaths

• February 22 – Peter Damian, Italian saint (b. c. 1007)
• March 16 – Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
• September 22 – Ouyang Xiu, Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet (b. 1007)
• November 24 – King Bagrat IV of Georgia (b. 1018)
• December 15 – Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
• Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury