1061

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1030s  1040s  1050s  – 1060s –  1070s  1080s  1090s
Years:	1058 1059 1060 – 1061 – 1062 1063 1064

1061 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1061 MLXI
Ab urbe condita	1814
Armenian calendar	510 ԹՎ ՇԺ
Assyrian calendar	5811
Balinese saka calendar	982–983
Bengali calendar	468
Berber calendar	2011
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1605
Burmese calendar	423
Byzantine calendar	6569–6570
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3757 or 3697     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3758 or 3698
Coptic calendar	777–778
Discordian calendar	2227
Ethiopian calendar	1053–1054
Hebrew calendar	4821–4822
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1117–1118
- Shaka Samvat	982–983
- Kali Yuga	4161–4162
Holocene calendar	11061
Igbo calendar	61–62
Iranian calendar	439–440
Islamic calendar	452–453
Japanese calendar	Kōhei 4 (康平４年)
Javanese calendar	964–965
Julian calendar	1061 MLXI
Korean calendar	3394
Minguo calendar	851 before ROC 民前851年
Nanakshahi calendar	−407
Seleucid era	1372/1373 AG
Thai solar calendar	1603–1604
Tibetan calendar	阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1187 or 806 or 34     — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1188 or 807 or 35

1061 (MLXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1061st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 61st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 11th century, and the 2nd year of the 1060s decade. As of the start of 1061, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Pope Alexander II (r. 1061–1073)

Events

By place

Europe

• January – Robert de Grantmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife of Roger I of Sicily), and eleven monks of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche are forced to leave Normandy and head to the Mezzogiorno.
• October 1 – Pope Alexander II replaces Pope Nicholas II as the 156th pope.
• The Normans take over Messina in Sicily.
• Construction of the Speyer Cathedral in Speyer, Germany, begins.
• Vratislav II becomes duke of Bohemia.
• Most of West Frisia (later part of the county of Holland) is taken over by imperial German armies and given to the Bishop of Utrecht.
• Estonians destroy the castle of Yuryev in Tartu and carry out raids in the Pskov region in Russia.

Africa

• Yusuf ben Tashfin succeeds to the throne of Morocco, following the Almoravid conquest.

Deaths

• January 28 – Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
• July 18 or July 27 – Pope Nicholas II