1024

Year 1024 (MXXIV) was a leap 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:	1000s 1010s 1020s 1030s 1040s
Years:	1021 1022 1023 1024 1025 1026 1027

1024 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1024 MXXIV
Ab urbe condita	1777
Armenian calendar	473 ԹՎ ՆՀԳ
Assyrian calendar	5774
Balinese saka calendar	945–946
Bengali calendar	431
Berber calendar	1974
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1568
Burmese calendar	386
Byzantine calendar	6532–6533
Chinese calendar	癸亥年 (Water Pig) 3720 or 3660     — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3721 or 3661
Coptic calendar	740–741
Discordian calendar	2190
Ethiopian calendar	1016–1017
Hebrew calendar	4784–4785
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1080–1081
- Shaka Samvat	945–946
- Kali Yuga	4124–4125
Holocene calendar	11024
Igbo calendar	24–25
Iranian calendar	402–403
Islamic calendar	414–415
Japanese calendar	Jian 4 / Manju 1 (万寿元年)
Javanese calendar	926–927
Julian calendar	1024 MXXIV
Korean calendar	3357
Minguo calendar	888 before ROC 民前888年
Nanakshahi calendar	−444
Seleucid era	1335/1336 AG
Thai solar calendar	1566–1567
Tibetan calendar	阴水猪年 (female Water-Pig) 1150 or 769 or −3     — to — 阳木鼠年 (male Wood-Rat) 1151 or 770 or −2

Pope John XIX (r. 1024–1032)

Events

Byzantine Empire

• Emperor Basil II prepares a Byzantine expedition to invade Sicily. Governor Ahmed al-Akhal appeals to the Zirids of Ifriqiya for help. They dispatch a fleet, but these is caught up in a storm and destroyed near Pantelleria.
• Battle of Lemnos: Kievan Viking raiders (800 men) sail through the straits at Abydos to the Aegean Sea. From there they made for the island of Lemnos, but are defeated by a Byzantine fleet of the Cibyrrhaeot Theme.[1]

Europe

• July 13 – Emperor Henry II dies in his imperial palace at Göttingen (modern Germany). He leaves no heirs, thereby ending the Ottonian Dynasty. The Salian Dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire is founded by Conrad II.
• September – Conrad II (the Elder) is elected and crowned as King of Germany in Mainz, while both he and his cousin Conrad the Younger (son of Conrad I, duke of Carinthia) are invested as joint dukes of Franconia.
• Roger I of Tosny, a Norman nobleman, leaves the battlefield of the Ebro Valley after terrorising the Saracens, and capturing several towns and castles during the Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain).[2]

Asia

• The world's first paper-printed money, which later greatly benefits the economy of the Song Dynasty, originates in the Sichuan province of China.
• Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni sacks the Hindu religious center of Somnath, and takes away a booty of 20 million dinars (approximate date).
• In Japan, the Manju (万寿) era begins.

Religion

• April 9 – Pope Benedict VIII dies after a 12-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by his brother John XIX as the 144th pope of the Catholic Church.

Births

• May 13 – Hugh the Great, abbot of Cluny (d. 1109)
• Al-Kunduri, vizier of the Seljuk Empire (d. 1064)
• Bruno II, margrave of Friesland (d. 1057)
• Fu Yaoyu, Chinese official and politician (d. 1091)
• Iziaslav I, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1078)
• Magnus the Good, king of Norway (d. 1047)

Deaths

• April 9 – Benedict VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
• July 13 – Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 973)
• Abd ar-Rahman V, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba
• Alpert of Metz, French Benedictine chronicler
• Brihtwine, bishop of Wells (approximate date)
• Choe Hang, civil minister of Goryeo (Korea)
• Cúán úa Lothcháin, Irish poet and Chief Ollam
• Hugbert (or Hukbrecht), bishop of Meissen
• Sultan al-Dawla, Buyid emir of Fars (b. 993)

References

1. Wortley, John, ed. (2010). John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 347. ISBN 978-0-521-76705-7.
2. Boissonade, B. "Les premières croisades françaises en Espagne. Normands, Gascons, Aquitains et Bourguignons (1018-1032)". Bulletin Hispanique. 36 (1): 5–28. doi:10.3406/hispa.1934.2607.