1042 Year 1042 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar .Events By place April 19 - Emperor Michael V Kalaphates banishes his adoptive mother and co-ruler Zoë , for plotting to poison him, to the island of Principo . His announcement as sole emperor leads to a popular revolt . April 20 - Zoë is proclaimed as empress at an assembly in Hagia Sophia along with her sister Theodora as co-ruler. Michael V flees to the monastery of Stoudios but is arrested, blinded and castrated . Zoë recalls Synodianos , governor of the Catepanate of Italy , and replaces him with George Maniakes . All of Apulia is in the hands of the Lombard rebels. June 11 - Zoë marries, a Byzantine bureaucrat who ascends as co-emperor Constantine IX at Constantinople . Theodora agrees to surrender her co-emperorship. Summer - George Maniakes goes on a march through Apulia, plundering the towns that have declared for the Lombard rebels. Constantine IX recalls Maniakes to Constantinople. George Maniakes revolts against Constantine IX and is declared emperor by his troops. He captures Pardos who has landed with an army at Otranto to take over his command. Byzantine–Arab War: The Byzantines reconquer the fortress city of Edessa . Returning it to Christian hands, after 400 years of Islamic rule. Duklja secures its independence from the Byzantine Empire.Europe January 25 - Abbad I dies after a 19-year reign as independent ruler of the Taifa of Seville in Al-Andalus . He is succeeded by his son Abbad II . Casimir I , duke of Poland , succeeds in reuniting the realm which earns him the name "the Restorer". He signs a treaty with Bretislav I , duke of Bohemia , at Regensburg . June 8 - Magnus the Good becomes king of Denmark after the death of Harthacnut . Despite of a claim to the throne by Sweyn II , Magnus takes control of Denmark . Autumn - Norman mercenaries assemble at Matera and decide to elect William Iron Arm as count of Melfi and leader of the Normans in Southern Italy . Harald Hardrada , leader of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire, returns to Norway , possibly because of his involvement in Maniakes' revolt. Finnish–Novgorodian War: Grand Prince Vladimir Yaroslavich wages a campaign against the Tavastians . June 8 - King Harthacnut collapses while attending a party. He dies without an heir, Edward the Confessor becomes king of England .Islamic world The Almoravids , led by Abdallah ibn Yasin , invade Morocco . Births Bolesław II the Generous , king of Poland Canute IV , king of Denmark Fujiwara no Morozane , Japanese nobleman and regent Gissur Ísleifsson , Icelandic clergyman and bishop Johannes of Jerusalem , French monk and abbot Louis the Springer , German nobleman Minamoto no Yoshitsuna , Japanese samurai Sancho V , king of Aragon and Pamplona Deaths January 25 - Abbad I, founder of the Abbadid Dynasty June 8 - Harthacnut, king of Denmark and England August 24 - Michael V Kalaphates, Byzantine emperor Anushtakin al-Dizbari , Fatimid governor of Aleppo Pardos, Byzantine governor of Italy
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