1017

This article is about the year 1017. For the number, see 1017 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1014 1015 1016 – 1017 – 1018 1019 1020

1017 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1017 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1017 MXVII
Ab urbe condita	1770
Armenian calendar	466 ԹՎ ՆԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	5767
Bengali calendar	424
Berber calendar	1967
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1561
Burmese calendar	379
Byzantine calendar	6525–6526
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 3713 or 3653     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3714 or 3654
Coptic calendar	733–734
Discordian calendar	2183
Ethiopian calendar	1009–1010
Hebrew calendar	4777–4778
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1073–1074
- Shaka Samvat	939–940
- Kali Yuga	4118–4119
Holocene calendar	11017
Igbo calendar	17–18
Iranian calendar	395–396
Islamic calendar	407–408
Japanese calendar	Chōwa 6 / Kannin 1 (寛仁元年)
Julian calendar	1017 MXVII
Korean calendar	3350
Minguo calendar	895 before ROC 民前895年
Seleucid era	1328/1329 AG
Thai solar calendar	1559–1560

Year 1017 (MXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• c. May – Melus of Bari begins a rebellion, supported by Norman mercenaries. His Lombard forces are victorious in three pitched battles against the Byzantine Empire.
• c. July – Cnut the Great, King of England, marries Emma of Normandy, widow of the penultimate monarch, Æthelred.
• Cnut divides England into the four Earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.
• Kiev burns. Possible date at which construction of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev, is started.
• Abd ar-Rahman IV succeeds Sulayman as Umayyad caliph.

Asia

• Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares the founding of the Druze religion. During the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
• Rajendra Chola annexed the island of Sri Lanka.

Africa

• Sunni revolt of Kairouan against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken and sacked.

Births

• October 29 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
• Zhou Dunyi, Neo-Confucian philosopher in Song Dynasty China (d. 1073)

Deaths

• June 5 – Ex-Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 975)
• July 6 – Genshin, Japanese scholar (b. 942)
• Autumn – Elvira of Castile, Queen of León (b. 965)
• c. December 25 – Eadric Streona, Earldorman of Mercia (killed)
• Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona (b. 972)