Centuries:	10th century - 11th century - 12th century
Decades:	1050s  1060s  1070s  - 1080s -  1090s  1100s  1110s
Years:	1078 1079 1080 - 1081 - 1082 1083 1084

1081 by topic

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1081 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1081 MLXXXI
Ab urbe condita	1834
Armenian calendar	530 ԹՎ ՇԼ
Bahá'í calendar	-763 – -762
Berber calendar	2031
Buddhist calendar	1625
Burmese calendar	443
Byzantine calendar	6589 – 6590
Chinese calendar	庚申年十一月十九日 (3717/3777-11-19) — to — 辛酉年十一月廿九日 (3718/3778-11-29)
Coptic calendar	797 – 798
Ethiopian calendar	1073 – 1074
Hebrew calendar	4841 – 4842
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1136 – 1137
- Shaka Samvat	1003 – 1004
- Kali Yuga	4182 – 4183
Holocene calendar	11081
Iranian calendar	459 – 460
Islamic calendar	473 – 474
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3414
Thai solar calendar	1624
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Events

• Corfu is taken from the Byzantine Empire by Robert Guiscard, Norman King of Southern Italy.
• Byzantine emperor Nicephorus III is overthrown by Alexius I Comnenus, ending the Middle Byzantine period and beginning the Comnenan dynasty.
• Alexius I helps defend Albania from the Normans (the first recorded mention of Albania), but is defeated at the Battle of Dyrrhachium.
• Construction begins on Saint Canute's Cathedral in Odense.
• May 8 — Alfonso VI of Castile marries Constance of Burgundy.
• Battle of Durazzo: Emperor Alexius I attempts to relieve the coastal city of Dyrrachium (Durazzo).

Births

• December 1 — King Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
• probable
  • Abbot Suger, French statesman and historian (d. 1151)

Deaths

• September 1 — Bishop Eusebius of Angers
• Bolesław II the Bold, King of Poland
• Nicephorus III, Byzantine Emperor
• Trahaearn ap Caradog, King of Gwynedd