1051

Contents

Events

Births

Deaths

Heads of states

Events

★ Godwin, Earl of Wessex, is exiled from England by King Edward the Confessor for refusing to take action against the townspeople of Dover. He returns the following year.

★ Hilarion of Kiev becomes the first native metropolitan of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Kievan Rus.

★ May 19 — Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev at the cathedral of Reims.

★ William of Normandy fights for his life and crown in Normandy.

Births

★ Edgar Atheling, uncrowned King of England 1066 after the Battle of Hastings

★ Mi Fu, Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher (d. 1107)

Deaths

★ January 22 — Aelfric Puttoc, archbishop of York

★ Bi Sheng, Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of movable type printing

Heads of states

★ Holy See — Leo IX pope (1049–1054)