1077

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1050s 1060s 1070s 1080s 1090s
Years:	1074 1075 1076 1077 1078 1079 1080

1077 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1077 MLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	1830
Armenian calendar	526 ԹՎ ՇԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	5827
Balinese saka calendar	998–999
Bengali calendar	484
Berber calendar	2027
English Regnal year	11 Will. 1 – 12 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1621
Burmese calendar	439
Byzantine calendar	6585–6586
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3774 or 3567     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3775 or 3568
Coptic calendar	793–794
Discordian calendar	2243
Ethiopian calendar	1069–1070
Hebrew calendar	4837–4838
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1133–1134
- Shaka Samvat	998–999
- Kali Yuga	4177–4178
Holocene calendar	11077
Igbo calendar	77–78
Iranian calendar	455–456
Islamic calendar	469–470
Japanese calendar	Jōhō 4 / Jōryaku 1 (承暦元年)
Javanese calendar	981–982
Julian calendar	1077 MLXXVII
Korean calendar	3410
Minguo calendar	835 before ROC 民前835年
Nanakshahi calendar	−391
Seleucid era	1388/1389 AG
Thai solar calendar	1619–1620
Tibetan calendar	阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1203 or 822 or 50     — to — 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1204 or 823 or 51

Eduard Schwoiser "Heinrich vor Canossa" (Henry IV at Canossa; 1862)

Year 1077 (MLXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

Africa

• The Almoravids complete the conquest of the Ghana Empire, and reach Spain.

Asia

• The Seljuk Turks capture Nicaea.
• Suleyman I of Rûm becomes the leader of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm, in modern Turkey.
• Anushtegin Gharchai becomes, as a Seljuk vassal, leader of the Khwarezmid Empire.

Europe

• January 26 – Walk to Canossa: Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, visits Pope Gregory VII as a penitent, asking him to remove the sentence of excommunication.
• January 28 – The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
• April 3
  • The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
  • Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor grants the county of Friuli, with ducal status, to Sigaerd, Patriarch of Aquileia.
• Robert Curthose instigates his first insurrection against his father, William the Conqueror, in Normandy.
• The Kingdom of Duklja is founded.
• The first recorded trial by combat is held in England.
• Vsevolod of Kiev becomes the prince of Kievan Rus'.
• Alfonso VI of Castile conquers Coria.
• Pope Gregory VII places the island of Corsica under the secular rule of the Archbishop of Pisa.
• Hugh of Burgundy supports the king of Aragon, in his conquest of the castle of Muñones from the emir of Zaragossa.

By topic

Arts

• The Bayeux Tapestry is made.

Religion

• The first English Cluniac Benedictine priory is established, at Lewes.
• Paul of Caen is installed as Abbot of St. Albans in England; the building of St Albans Abbey Church commences.
• Pope Christodolos of Alexandria ends his reign as Coptic Pope.
• Dionysius V Lazaros becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

• Joseph ibn Migash, rabbi (d. 1141)

Deaths

• April 25 – Géza I of Hungary
• December 14 – Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress and regent (b. c. 1025)
• King Anawrahta of Burma (b. 1044)
• Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Persian historian and author (b. 995)
• Shao Yong, Chinese philosopher, cosmologist, poet and historian (b. 1011)
• Zhang Zai, Chinese Neo-Confucian moral philosopher and cosmologist (b. 1020)