1042

This page relates to the year 1042 Calendrier Julien.

Events

Asia

  • With the Tibet, the Buddhist king of Guge Changchub Ö invites Âtîśa, a Bengali Pandit , to take part in the rebirth of the Bouddhisme.

The Middle East

  • the Saljûqides seize the Khârezm.

North Africa

Europe

  • June 8th:

    • Died of Silk worker Bold the of apoplexy before the 25 years age. Edouard the Confessor, wire of Ethelred II and Emma, elected, restores the Anglo-Saxon royalty (dynasty of Wessex). He will be worried more his personal safety that of its kingdom and will not be able to establish a strong capacity.
    • Beginning of the reign of Edouard the Confessor in England (end in January 1066). The England separates from the Denmark.
    • Beginning of the reign of Magnus Ier Olavsson '' the Good '' (1024 - 1047) king of the Denmark.
      • Magnus Olavsson, which intends to privilege its kingdom of Norway, institutes as regent with the Denmark his cousin Sveinn Úlfsson (Estridsen), wire of the jarl Úlfr assassinated in 1027.
  • September: In Italy of the South, the majority of the bands Normans elect as chief Guillaume Arm-of-Iron, with Melfi.
  • November: Ordulf Billung, oldest son of the duke of Saxony Bernard II, wife Wulfhilde of Norway, the half-sister of the king Magnus of Denmark and Norway. Danes and Saxon fight together against the Wendes.

  • Beginning of the reign of `Ibn Abbad II or Al-Mu' tadid, king abbadide of Seville (fine in 1069). Poet, bloodthirsty man and skeptic, it increases his kingdom while guerroyant against the dynasties Berbères is Andalusia.
  • Beginning of the reign of Diarmait mac Email Na mBo, king of Leinster (death in 1072)

Worsen Byzantine

  • 17 - April 18th: Michel V makes stop Zoe and attempt at regicide shows it.
  • April 20th: The insurgent people reverse Michel V (plugged and cloister) and release Zoe which will reign with his/her sister Théodora, who will be évincée again when Zoe associates with the throne her lover Constantin IX Monomaque and marries it at 62 years. Beginning of the reign of Théodora Porphyrogénète, associated Byzantine empress (end in 1056).
  • June 11th: Zoe wife Constantin Monomaque. Beginning of the reign of Constantin IX Monomaque, Byzantine Emperor (fine in 1055). The reign of Constantin IX is marked by the final loss of the Italy to the profit of the Normands (disgrace of Georges Maniakès), the progression of the Seldjoukides in the east, the disorders interior and the Schisme religious between Constantinople and Rome. It is nevertheless one very flourishing period for the letters, dominated by the personality of the scholar Michel Psellos, protected from the emperor, who occupies an important place in the State for 25 years.

  • Constantin Monomaque opens the Sénat with the middle-class of the capital and the provincial civils servant.
  • “imperial Foundation” of Saint-Georges of Manganes to Constantinople, rested by Constantin Monomaque. It is a house for the poor (traveller, patients, old men, poor, children found, orphan, etc) held by monks.

Births in 1042

Death in 1042

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