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Events

• With the Japan, starting from 1040, the restoration then the reform of the system of the fields granted the aristocratic families ( Shôen ) reinforces the capacity of the provincial clans and becomes a factor of political and social fragmentation.

• Forwarding of the chief Varègue (Uppland board) Ingvarr inn víthförli (the Large Traveller) and of his/her companions who start from Sweden through the Russia to arrive at the Serkland (country of the Sarrasins) where he perishes with his army.

• Dernière war enters the Rus' of Kiev and the Byzantine Empire.
• Raids of the Petchenègues on the the Danube.
• Tender of the Arménie in Byzance.
• the Normands found principalities in Italy South with the detriment of Byzance.
• Taken again Reconquest in Spain.
• From the years the 1045 Counts de Barcelone and the Counts d' Urgell impose a tribute on the close Moslem emirates (Tortosa, Saragossa, Lérida).

Significant characters

• Abbad II

• Abdullah Ibn Yassin
• Agnes of Aquitaine
• Amédée Ier of Savoy
• Anawrahta
• Andre Ier of Hungary
• Bahya ibn Paquda
• Berenger of Turns
• Bretislav Ier of Bohemia
• Casimir Ier the Restorer
• Constantin IX
• Edouard the Confessor
• Éon Ier de Penthièvre
• Geoffroy II of Anjou
• Georges Maniakès
• Harald III of Norway
• Henri Ier from France
• Henri III of the Holy roman Empire
• Hugues of Cluny
• Leon Tornikios
• Leon IX
• Macbeth Ier of Scotland
• Michel Ier Cérulaire
• Michel V (Byzantine emperor)
• Pierre of Hungary
• Pierre Deljan
• Solomon ibn Gabirol
• Samuel Aba of Hungary
• Siemomysł de Poméranie
• Sven II of Denmark
• Théodora Porphyrogénète
• Toghrul-Beg
• Zoe de Byzance

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• In China, pi Cheng would have invented mobile block letters moulded out of terra cotta (1023 - 1063).

Arts & culture

• Jewish School Séfarade of Saragossa, with the philosopher and poet Ibn Gabirol (1021 - 1058), the exégète Mossé Ibn Samuel Ibn Chikatilia, the philosopher neoplatonician Bahya ibn Paquda (1040 - 1110);

• Bérenger of Turns starts his criticism of the traditional interpretation of the Eucharistie by affirming that the body and the blood of the Christ are symbolically and not physically present in the devoted bread and the wine. Condemned on several occasions by Rome for its positions, it never abjures definitively its doctrines but is withdrawn in the silence of a monastery close to Tours where it dies in 1088;

• Raoul Glabrous the written Stories (1040-1046);
• the compilation of the Russian first Chroniques is attested as of this time.
• Style of Ringerike (Norway) in the Scandinavian Art: runic steles richly engraved of Nedre Alstad (Uppland, beginning 11th century) and of Nordre Dynna (Opland, about 1040), wind vanes of boats of the churches of Källunge (Gotland), of Söderala (Hälsingland, Sweden), whose principal reason is a quadruped fighting against snakes;

Simple: 1040s