Calendar year
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 1015 by topic |
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| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births – Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Gregorian calendar | 1015 MXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1768 |
| Armenian calendar | 464 ԹՎ ՆԿԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5765 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 936–937 |
| Bengali calendar | 422 |
| Berber calendar | 1965 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1559 |
| Burmese calendar | 377 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6523–6524 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 3712 or 3505 — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 3713 or 3506 |
| Coptic calendar | 731–732 |
| Discordian calendar | 2181 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1007–1008 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4775–4776 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1071–1072 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 936–937 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4115–4116 |
| Holocene calendar | 11015 |
| Igbo calendar | 15–16 |
| Iranian calendar | 393–394 |
| Islamic calendar | 405–406 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōwa 4 (長和４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 917–918 |
| Julian calendar | 1015 MXV |
| Korean calendar | 3348 |
| Minguo calendar | 897 before ROC 民前897年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −453 |
| Seleucid era | 1326/1327 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1557–1558 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1141 or 760 or −12 — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 1142 or 761 or −11 |
Year 1015 (MXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- October – Influential Japanese statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga is appointed to be Associate Regent.
- November – The newly constructed Japanese imperial residence burns down.
- Peacocks arrive from the Chinese Song Empire to Fujiwara's mansion in Japan.
Europe
- July 15 – Vladimir the Great dies at Berestove after a 35-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Sviatopolk I as Grand Prince of Kiev.
- Summer – King Cnut the Great of Denmark launches an invasion of Mercia and Northumbria in England.
- Emperor Henry II launches a German expedition against Duke Bolesław I the Brave. He invades Poland, but is stopped by Bolesław's forces at Krosno, on the Oder River.
- Earl Eric Haakonsson outlaws berserkers in Norway.
- Olaf Haraldsson declares himself King of Norway.
Births
- Andrew I ("the Catholic"), king of Hungary (d. 1060)
- Altmann, bishop of Passau (approximate date)
- Ermesinda of Bigorre, queen of Aragon (d. 1049)
- Eustace II, count of Boulogne (approximate date)
- Ferdinand I, king of León and Castile (d. 1065)
- Frozza Orseolo, margravine of Austria (d. 1071)
- Harald Hardrada, king of Norway (d. 1066)
- Herman IV, duke of Swabia (approximate date)
- John Komnenos, Byzantine aristocrat (d. 1067)
- Michael V Kalaphates, Byzantine emperor (d. 1042)
- Otto II, margrave of Montferrat (approximate date)
- Robert Guiscard, Norman nobleman (d. 1085)
- Roger de Beaumont, Norman nobleman (d. 1094)
Deaths
- February 5 – Adelaide, German abbess and saint
- February 13 – Gilbert of Meaux, French bishop
- July 15 – Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev
- September 1 – Gero II, margrave of the Saxon Ostmark
- September 12 – Lambert I, count of Louvain (b. 950)
- December 14 – Arduin of Ivrea, king of Italy (b. 955)
- December 20 – Eido I, bishop of Meissen (b. 955)
- date unknown
- Æthelmær the Stout, English ealdorman
- Al-Sharif al-Radi, Persian Shi'ite scholar (b. 970)
- Gavril Radomir, emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria
- Geoffrey (or Godfrey), count of Eu (b. 962)
- Herbert III, count of Vermandois (b. 953)
- Hugh III, count of Maine (approximate date)
- Ibn Furak, Muslim imam and theologian (b. 941)
- Irene of Larissa, empress (tsarina) of Bulgaria
- Liu Zong, Chinese official of the Song Dynasty
- Masawaih al-Mardini, Syrian physician and writer
- Morcar (or Morkere), English minister (thegn)
- Owain ap Dyfnwal, king of Strathclyde (Scotland)
- Rodulf of Ivry, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
- Sigeferth (or Sigefrith), English chief minister
- Vikramaditya V, Indian ruler of the Chalukya Empire
References
Sources
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0304357307.