1070

This article is about the year 1070.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1040s  1050s  1060s  – 1070s –  1080s  1090s  1100s
Years:	1067 1068 1069 – 1070 – 1071 1072 1073

1070 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1070 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1070 MLXX
Ab urbe condita	1823
Armenian calendar	519 ԹՎ ՇԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	5820
Bengali calendar	477
Berber calendar	2020
English Regnal year	4 Will. 1 – 5 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1614
Burmese calendar	432
Byzantine calendar	6578–6579
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3766 or 3706     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3767 or 3707
Coptic calendar	786–787
Discordian calendar	2236
Ethiopian calendar	1062–1063
Hebrew calendar	4830–4831
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1126–1127
- Shaka Samvat	992–993
- Kali Yuga	4171–4172
Holocene calendar	11070
Igbo calendar	70–71
Iranian calendar	448–449
Islamic calendar	462–463
Japanese calendar	Enkyū 2 (延久２年)
Julian calendar	1070 MLXX
Korean calendar	3403
Minguo calendar	842 before ROC 民前842年
Seleucid era	1381/1382 AG
Thai solar calendar	1612–1613

Year 1070 (MLXX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Winter of 1069–1070 – Harrying of the North: William I of England quells rebellions in the North of England following an invasion by Sweyn II of Denmark. Widespread famine follows the devastation wrought.
• Spring – King Sweyn II of Denmark joins English rebels, led by Hereward the Wake, and captures the Isle of Ely in The Fens of eastern England.
• April 11 – Archbishop of Canterbury Stigand is deposed.
• June 1 – Hereward plunders Peterborough Abbey in eastern England.
• June – Denmark signs a treaty with England; Sweyn and his forces leave the country.
• August 15 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is approximated as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
• Invasion of England by Malcolm III of Scotland is repelled.
• Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, the first Marcher Lord, invades Wales, capturing parts of Gwynedd.
• A successful Byzantine counter-attack drives the Seljuq Turks across the Euphrates.
• Bergen is founded by king Olaf III of Norway; it will function as the main city and capital of Norway until replaced by Oslo in 1314.
• Chinese Chancellor Wang Anshi starts the Xining Reforms (which last until 1085).
• Jews from Rouen in Normandy settle in England at the invitation of King William I.
• The Temple of Literature, Hanoi, is established in the capital of Vietnam.
• Uyghur poet Yusuf Khass Hajib of Balasagun in the Kara-Khanid Khanate completes the Kutadgu Bilig ("The Wisdom Which Brings Good Fortune") and presents it to the prince of Kashgar.
• Song dynasty Chinese astronomer, engineer, and statesman Su Song completes the compilation of the Ben Cao Tu Jing, a pharmaceutical treatise with related subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy, and metallurgy.
• Rebuilding of Canterbury Cathedral in England following a fire.
• Rebuilding of York Minster in England begins.
• Construction of Richmond Castle in North Yorkshire, England, by Alan Rufus begins.
• Approximate date – Halsten Stenkilsson is deposed as king of Sweden, with Håkan the Red becoming king in Götaland and Anund Gårdske being chosen as king of Svealand.

Births

• Hugues de Payens, Knight Templar (d. c. 1136)

Deaths

• March 6 – Ulric I, Margrave of Carniola
• July 17 – Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders (b. 1030)