1080

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

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1080 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1080 MLXXX
Ab urbe condita	1833
Armenian calendar	529 ԹՎ ՇԻԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-764 – -763
Bengali calendar	487
Berber calendar	2030
Buddhist calendar	1624
Burmese calendar	442
Byzantine calendar	6588 – 6589
Chinese calendar	己未年十二月初七日 (3716/3776-12-7) — to — 庚申年十一月十八日 (3717/3777-11-18)
Coptic calendar	796 – 797
Ethiopian calendar	1072 – 1073
Hebrew calendar	4840 – 4841
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1136 – 1137
- Shaka Samvat	1002 – 1003
- Kali Yuga	4181 – 4182
Holocene calendar	11080
Iranian calendar	458 – 459
Islamic calendar	472 – 473
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3413
Thai solar calendar	1623

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Uncertain dates 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

Events

• July 5, Ísleifur Gissurarson, the first bishop in Iceland, dies while giving mass in Skálholt church.

• October 14, the Battle on the Elster^[1] between the armies of the two rival brothers-in-law kings of the German states, Henry IV and Rudolf of Rheinfelden met at the Weisse-Elster River in the Great Saxon Revolt civil war of the Holy Roman Empire.

Uncertain dates

• William I of England, in a letter, protests to the Pope that the King of England owes him no allegiance.
• 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.
• The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia gains independence after its founder, Prince Ruben, succeeds in establishing his authority in the mountainous regions of Cilicia (approximate date).
• The Song Dynasty Chinese polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo begins his defensive military campaign against the Tanguts of the Western Xia Kingdom, successfully defending the invasion route to Yan'an.
• c. 1080–1100 – Christ Pantokrator, mosaic in the central dome, church of the Dormition, Daphni, Greece, is made.

Births

• Leopold IV of Austria (d. 1141)
• Teresa of Leon, illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile and Leon (d. 1130)

Deaths

• April 17—King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041)
• May 15—William Walcher, Bishop of Durham
• July 5 – Ísleifur Gissurarson, Icelandic clergyman (b. 1006)
• October 15 — duke Rudolf of Rheinfelden leader the Great Saxon Revolt dies from wounds received during the battle of Elster at nearby Merseburg during civil war of the Holy Roman Empire^[1]

References