1064

Year 1064 (MLXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Americas

Sunset Crater Volcano (present-day Arizona) first erupts.

Asia

The Seljuk Turks storm Anatolia, taking Caesarea and Ani, marking the beginning of Turkish incursions into Anatolia.

The Kingdom of Georgia takes over Samshvilde, the capital of the neighboring Kingdom of Tashir-Dzoraget.

Europe

June 9 – Coimbra is taken by King Ferdinand of Castile.

European warriors go to Spain, to participate in the siege of Barbastro. This expedition is sanctioned by the Pope, and is now regarded as an early form of Crusade.

Harold Godwinson is shipwrecked at Ponthieu, Normandy and taken captive by Count Guy.

Construction of the Duomo at Pisa in Tuscany begins.

Births

Duke Borivoj II of Bohemia

Robert Fitz Richard, a Norman landowner in England

King Niels of Denmark

Deaths

Abu Muhammad 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa`id (Ibn Hazm), Andalusian poet, polymath, historian, philsopher, jurist and theologian

Dromtönpa, initiator of the Kadampa school and founder of Reting Monastery

Ottokar I of Styria

Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar, German Talmudist

Yi Yuanji, Chinese Northern Song painter famous for his realistic paintings of animals (b. 1000)

Akkadevi, Indian princess, governor and general (b. 1010)

References

1064 Wikipedia

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