1073
Year 1073 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- Spring - Emperor Michael VII sends an Byzantine army to deal with Seljuk raiding in Cappadocia, supported with a mixed force of Norman and French mercenary heavy cavalry under Roussel de Bailleul. Roussel re-conquers some territory in Galatia and declares it an independent Norman state. Michael enraged, sends another army led by his uncle, Caesar John Doukas and the veteran General Nikephoros Botaneiates to deal with the rising of the Norman threat in Asia minor. But the Byzantines are defeated and John is captured. Roussel marches with a force across Bithynia to the Bosporus and sacks Chrysopolis, near Constantinople.
Europe
- May 25 - King Sancho IV of Navarre and Ahmad al-Muqtadir, Muslim ruler of the Taifa of Zaragoza, conclude an alliance by treaty.
- Ebles II of Roucy leads a French army in Spain, to support King Sancho V of Aragon in his struggle against his Muslim neighbors.
- Sviatoslav II and Vsevolod I unite the Kievan forces and expel their brother Iziaslav I. Sviatoslav II becomes Grand Prince of Kiev.
- October 14 - The Judicate of Arborea is recognised by Pope Gregory VII.
England
- Edgar Ætheling, last male member of the House of Wessex, joins forces with King Malcolm III of Scotland and King Philip I of France in an attempt to take the English throne.
Asia
- Wang Anshi, Chinese chief chancellor of the Song Dynasty, creates a new bureau of the central government, which supervises the manufacture of military armaments and ensures quality control.
- June 15 - Emperor Go-Sanjō dies after a 5-year reign and is succeeded by his 19-year-old son Shirakawa as the 72nd emperor of Japan.
By topic
Religion
Births
- Agnes of Waiblingen, daughter of Henry IV
- Alfonso I, king of Aragon
- Al-Tighnari, Moorish botanist and physician
- Anastatius IV, pope of the Catholic Church
- David IV, king of Georgia
- Ermengarde of Nevers, French noblewoman
- Leopold III, margrave of Austria
- Magnus III, king of Norway
- Meng, empress of the Song Dynasty
- Philippa, French noblewoman
- Shaykh Tabarsi, Persian Shia scholar
- Thomas of Marle, lord of Coucy
- Zbigniew, duke of Poland
Deaths
- April 21 - Alexander II, pope of the Catholic Church
- June 15 - Go-Sanjō, emperor of Japan
- July 12 - John Gualbert, Italian monk and abbot
- December 20 - Dominic of Silos, Spanish abbot
- Al-Qushayri, Persian Sufi scholar and theologian
- Anthony of Kiev, Russian monk and saint
- Badis ibn Habus, Berber king of the Taifa of Granada
- Barisone I of Torres, Sardinian ruler of Arborea
- Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, king of Gwynedd
- Peter Damian, cardinal-bishop of Ostia
- Zhou Dunyi, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist