1080

This article is about the year 1080. For other uses, see 1080 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century · 11th century · 12th century
Decades:	1050s · 1060s · 1070s · 1080s · 1090s · 1100s · 1110s
Years:	1077 · 1078 · 1079 · 1080 · 1081 · 1082 · 1083

1080 by topic
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Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

1080 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1080 MLXXX
Ab urbe condita	1833
Armenian calendar	529 ԹՎ ՇԻԹ
Assyrian calendar	5830
Bengali calendar	487
Berber calendar	2030
English Regnal year	14 Will. 1 – 15 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1624
Burmese calendar	442
Byzantine calendar	6588–6589
Chinese calendar	己未年 (Earth Goat) 3776 or 3716 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 3777 or 3717
Coptic calendar	796–797
Discordian calendar	2246
Ethiopian calendar	1072–1073
Hebrew calendar	4840–4841
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1136–1137
- Shaka Samvat	1001–1002
- Kali Yuga	4180–4181
Holocene calendar	11080
Igbo calendar	80–81
Iranian calendar	458–459
Islamic calendar	472–473
Japanese calendar	Jōryaku 4 (承暦４年)
Javanese calendar	984–985
Julian calendar	1080 MLXXX
Korean calendar	3413
Minguo calendar	832 before ROC 民前832年
Nanakshahi calendar	−388
Seleucid era	1391/1392 AG
Thai solar calendar	1622–1623

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Year 1080 (MLXXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

April 17 – Canute IV succeeds as king of Denmark on the death of his brother Harald III.
May 14 – William Walcher, Bishop of Durham, is killed by rebel Northumbrians. To punish the rebels, King William I of England sends his half-brother Odo of Bayeux to pacify Northumbria.^[1]
July 5 – Ísleifur Gissurarson, the first bishop in Iceland, dies while giving mass in Skálholt church.
Autumn – King William I of England's son Robert Curthose is sent to invade Scotland; he reaches as far as Falkirk.^[1]
October 14 – Battle on the Elster^[2] between the armies of the two rival brothers-in-law kings of the German states, Henry IV, King of the Romans and Rudolf of Rheinfelden meeting at the White Elster river in the Great Saxon Revolt civil war of the Holy Roman Empire. Rudolf is the victor but dies the following day at Merseburg of wounds received.
King William I of England, in a letter, refuses to accept Pope Gregory VII as his overlord.
King Alfonso VI of León and Castile establishes Latin liturgy in the Catholic Church in place of the Mozarabic Rite.
Osmund (bishop of Salisbury), builds Devizes Castle in England.
c. 1080–1100 – The Master of Daphni creates the mosaic of Christ Pantocrator in the central dome of the katholikon at Daphni Monastery in Greece.

The Rubenid Principality of Cilicia gains independence after its founder, Ruben I, Prince of Armenia, succeeds in establishing his authority in the mountainous regions of Cilicia (approximate date).
The Seljuq-led Turkish tribes begin the Great Turkish Invasion of the Kingdom of Georgia.
The Song dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo begins his defensive military campaign against the Tangut people of the Western Xia Kingdom, successfully defending the invasion route to Yan'an.

1 2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 113–114. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
1 2 John France. Victory in the East (Book extract). Godfrey was almost certainly present in support of Henry IV at the battle of Elster in 1080 (sic 1085... an error or typo), when the forces of the anti-king Rudolf triumphed on the field only to see their victory nullified because Rudolf was killed
↑ Picard C. (1997) La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.

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