1069

1069 (MLXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1069th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 69th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 11th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1060s decade. As of the start of 1069, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Wang Anshi ('Duke of Jing') (1021–1086)
Wang Anshi ('Duke of Jing') (1021–1086)
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades: 1030s  1040s  1050s  – 1060s –  1070s  1080s  1090s
Years: 1066 1067 1068 – 1069 – 1070 1071 1072
1069 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1069
MLXIX
Ab urbe condita1822
Armenian calendar518
ԹՎ ՇԺԸ
Assyrian calendar5819
Balinese saka calendar990–991
Bengali calendar476
Berber calendar2019
English Regnal year3 Will. 1 – 4 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar1613
Burmese calendar431
Byzantine calendar6577–6578
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
3765 or 3705
    — to —
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
3766 or 3706
Coptic calendar785–786
Discordian calendar2235
Ethiopian calendar1061–1062
Hebrew calendar4829–4830
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1125–1126
 - Shaka Samvat990–991
 - Kali Yuga4169–4170
Holocene calendar11069
Igbo calendar69–70
Iranian calendar447–448
Islamic calendar461–462
Japanese calendarJiryaku 5 / Enkyū 1
(延久元年)
Javanese calendar973–974
Julian calendar1069
MLXIX
Korean calendar3402
Minguo calendar843 before ROC
民前843年
Nanakshahi calendar−399
Seleucid era1380/1381 AG
Thai solar calendar1611–1612
Tibetan calendar阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
1195 or 814 or 42
    — to —
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
1196 or 815 or 43

Events
  • Harrying of the North: King William of England (William the Conqueror) reacts to rebellions made by his Anglo Saxon subjects against him. He rides through the north of England with his army and burns houses, crops, cattle and land from York to Durham, which results in the deaths of over 100,000 people, mainly from starvation and winter cold.
  • William the Conqueror founds the Norman Selby Abbey.
  • Abbad III al-Mu'tamid succeeds his father on the throne of Sevilla.
  • Shenzong appoints Wang Anshi as his chief counsellor.
  • Wang Anshi, chancellor of the Chinese Song Dynasty, implements the New Policies, which include financial reforms, raising the salaries of officials to reduce corruption, institution of the baojia system, etc.
  • Start of Nam tiến, the southward expansion of the territory of Vietnam.[1]
  • Magnus II of Norway dies and Olav III becomes sole King of Norway.
  • The Seljuk Turks fail to capture Iconium, following a Byzantine counter-attack launched from Syria.

Deaths

References
  1. Nguyen The Anh (1989). "Le Nam tien dans les textes Vietnamiens". In Lafont, P. B. (ed.). Les frontieres du Vietnam. Paris: Edition l’Harmattan.
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