1061

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1030s 1040s 1050s – 1060s – 1070s 1080s 1090s
Years:	1058 1059 1060 – 1061 – 1062 1063 1064

1061 by topic
Lists of leaders
State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

Events

January—Robert de Grantmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife of Roger I of Sicily), and eleven monks of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche are banished from Normandy and head to the Mezzogiorno.
The Normans conquer Messina in Sicily.
October 1—Pope Alexander II succeeds Pope Nicholas II as the 156th pope.
Erection of the Speyer Cathedral in Speyer, Germany, begins.
Vratislav II becomes duke of Bohemia.
Most of West Frisia (later known as Holland) is conquered by imperial German armies and given to the Bishop of Utrecht.
Estonians destroy the castle of Yuryev in Tartu and carry out raids in the Pskov region in Russia.
Yusuf ben Tashfin succeeds to the throne of Morocco, following the Almoravid conquest.