1018

Year 1018 (MXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	990s 1000s 1010s 1020s 1030s
Years:	1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1020 1021

1018 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1018 MXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1771
Armenian calendar	467 ԹՎ ՆԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	5768
Balinese saka calendar	939–940
Bengali calendar	425
Berber calendar	1968
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1562
Burmese calendar	380
Byzantine calendar	6526–6527
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3714 or 3654     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3715 or 3655
Coptic calendar	734–735
Discordian calendar	2184
Ethiopian calendar	1010–1011
Hebrew calendar	4778–4779
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1074–1075
- Shaka Samvat	939–940
- Kali Yuga	4118–4119
Holocene calendar	11018
Igbo calendar	18–19
Iranian calendar	396–397
Islamic calendar	408–409
Japanese calendar	Kannin 2 (寛仁２年)
Javanese calendar	920–921
Julian calendar	1018 MXVIII
Korean calendar	3351
Minguo calendar	894 before ROC 民前894年
Nanakshahi calendar	−450
Seleucid era	1329/1330 AG
Thai solar calendar	1560–1561
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1144 or 763 or −9     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1145 or 764 or −8

The Battle of Vlaardingen (Netherlands)

Events

Europe

• January 30 – The Peace of Bautzen: Emperor Henry II signs a peace treaty with Bolesław I (the Brave), Duke of Poland, ending the German–Polish War. Poland keeps Lusatia – the Holy Roman Empire keeps Bohemia. With this peace agreement, Bolesław redirects his forces on an offensive against the Kievan Rus'.
• July 22–23 – Battle of the River Bug: Polish forces under Bolesław I defeat Yaroslav the Wise near the River Bug. Yaroslav retreats to Novgorod, abandoning Kiev.
• July 29 – Battle of Vlaardingen: Henry II sends an army towards Holland to subdue the rebellious Count Dirk III. The Imperial forces are defeated near Vlaardingen.
• August – Ivats, Bulgarian nobleman and rebel leader, is blinded and captured by strategos Eustathios Daphnomeles, confirming Bulgaria's position as part of the Byzantine Empire.
• August 14 – Bolesław I accepts the surrender of Kiev by the Pechenegs. He reinstates Sviatopolk I as Grand Prince of Kiev.
• Battle of Cannae: The Lombard adventurer Melus of Bari and his Norman mercenaries are decisively defeated by the Byzantine army, led by the Catepan Basil Boioannes.[1]
• October 1 – Battle of Carham: King Malcolm II of Scotland and Owain Foel (the Bald) are victorious over either Uhtred the Bold or Eadwulf Cudel, rulers of Bamburgh. The battle confirms Scottish dominance over Lothian.
• Cnut the Great travels to Denmark to succeed his brother Harald II on the Danish throne.[2]

Asia

• December – Goryeo–Khitan War: Khitan forces of the Liao Dynasty invade Goryeo (North Korea). Goryeo forces led by General Gang Gam-chan annihilates the Khitan army at Kusong.

Religion

• Buckfast Abbey (located near Buckfastleigh) is founded as a Benedictine monastery in England.[3]

Births

• April 10 – Nizam al-Mulk, Persian scholar and vizier (d. 1092)
• August 31 – Jeongjong II, ruler of Goryeo (Korea) (d. 1046)
• Abul Hasan Hankari, Abbasid scholar and jurist (d. 1093)
• Bagrat IV, Georgian king of the Bagrationi Dynasty (d. 1072)
• Ermengarde of Anjou, duchess of Burgundy (d. 1076)
• Harthacnut (or Canute III), king of Denmark (d. 1042)
• Michael Psellos, Byzantine monk and philosopher (approximate date)
• Richilde, countess and regent of Flanders (d. 1086)
• Victor II, pope of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1057)

Deaths

• February 24 – Borrell, bishop of Vic (Spain)
• February 25 – Arnulf II, archbishop of Milan
• March 22 – Ali ibn Hammud al-Nasir, caliph of Córdoba
• June 23 – Henry I (the Strong), margrave of Austria
• July 7 – Gerberga of Burgundy, duchess of Swabia
• September 25 – Berthold of Toul, German bishop
• October 1
  • Gilbert Buatère, Norman nobleman
  • Osmond Drengot, Norman nobleman
• December 1 – Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg (b. 975)
• Abd al-Rahman IV, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba
• Aeddan ap Blegywryd, king of Gwynedd
• Adolf I of Lotharingia, German nobleman
• Aldhun, bishop of Lindisfarne (or 1019)
• Dragomir, ruler of Travunia and Zachlumia
• Harald II, king and regent of Denmark
• Ivan Vladislav, emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria
• Frederick, German nobleman (b. 974)

References

1. Kleinhenz 2010.
2. Williams 2005.
3. Emery, Anthony (2006). Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58132-5.

Sources

• Kleinhenz, Christopher, ed. (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. 1. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415939294.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

• Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0304357307.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)