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The 1021 (one thousand twenty-first) year on the Julian calendar is a non-leap year starting on Sunday . This is 1021 years of our era , 21 years of 2 millenniums , 21 years of the XI century , 1 year of the 3rd decade of the XI century, 2 years of the 1020s .
Content
Events
The ruins of Vitebsk castle
Cathedral in Merseburg
- At the request of Pope Benedict VIII, Emperor Henry II the Holy invades Italy , defeats the Byzantines and captures Capua and Salerno .
- June. Datto, the brother-in-law of the duke Melo, was the last surviving leader of the rebellion in southern Italy.
- October 1st. Henry II takes part in the consecration of the new cathedral in Merseburg .
- Czech capture of Moravia .
- 1021-1022 - Caliph of Cordoba Yahya al-Mutali (+1035).
- July 30 - in Russia, in the city of Vyshhorod (Kiev region, Ukraine) a church was consecrated in honor of the noble princes Boris and Gleb , the first saints of Russia.
- The first mention of Vitebsk in the Moscow annals.
- Successful Greek offensive on Georgia and Armenia .
- Self-deification of Hakim, Caliph of Egypt.
- The foundation of the Druze religion in Lebanon .
- The invasion of the "Iraqi" Oghuz in Armenia.
- 1021 - The Vaspurakan Armenian kingdom was attacked by Turkic tribes. Unable to resist the invasion, the king of Vaspurikan, Senekerim Artsruni , agreed to annex his kingdom to Byzantium , after which it ceased to exist independently.
Born
See also: Category: Born in 1021
- Evdokia Macrembolitissa , wife of the Byzantine emperor Constantine X
- Avicebrona , Jewish poet and philosopher of the Sephardic- Spanish era.
Died
See also: Category: Deaths in 1021
- March 16 - Archbishop of Cologne Heribert.
- August 17 - Archbishop of Mainz Erkanbald.
See also
► 1021 year