Centuries:	10th century - 11th century - 12th century
Decades:	1040s  1050s  1060s  - 1070s -  1080s  1090s  1100s
Years:	1069 1070 1071 - 1072 - 1073 1074 1075

1072 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders - Sovereign states

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

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1072 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1072 MLXXII
Ab urbe condita	1825
Armenian calendar	521 ԹՎ ՇԻԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-772 – -771
Berber calendar	2022
Buddhist calendar	1616
Burmese calendar	434
Byzantine calendar	6580 – 6581
Chinese calendar	辛亥年十二月初九日 (3708/3768-12-9) — to — 壬子年十一月十九日 (3709/3769-11-19)
Coptic calendar	788 – 789
Ethiopian calendar	1064 – 1065
Hebrew calendar	4832 – 4833
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1127 – 1128
- Shaka Samvat	994 – 995
- Kali Yuga	4173 – 4174
Holocene calendar	11072
Iranian calendar	450 – 451
Islamic calendar	464 – 465
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3405
Thai solar calendar	1615
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Contents 1 Events 1.1 Europe 1.2 Asia 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

Europe

• William I of England invades Scotland, and also receives the submission of Hereward the Wake.
• Osbern FitzOsbern becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• January 10 — The Normans conquer Palermo in Sicily.
• May 27 — The Accord of Winchester establishes the primacy of the Archbishop of Canterbury over the Archbishop of York in the Church of England.
• Dunfermline Abbey is founded - later to become the burial place of several Kings of Scots, including Robert the Bruce. The associated royal palace will be the birth place of King Charles I.
• Alfonso VI becomes king of Leon and Castile following the assassination of his brother Sancho.

Asia

• The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo is appointed as the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy, where he begins his groundbreaking work with the colleague Wei Pu on accurately plotting the orbital paths of the stars, planets, and moon three times a night for a continuum of five years.
• Shen Kuo is sent to supervise Chancellor Wang Anshi's program of surveying the building of silt deposits in the Bian Canal outside the capital city of Kaifeng. Using an original technique, Shen successfully dredges the canal and demonstrates the formidable value of the silt gathered as a fertilizer.

Births

Deaths

• February 22 — Peter Damian, Italian saint (born c. 1007)
• March 16 — Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
• September 22 — Ouyang Xiu, Chinese statesman, historian, essayist and poet (b. 1007)
• November 24 - King Bagrat IV of Georgia (b. 1018)
• December 15 — Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
• Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury