1011

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s 990s 1000s – 1010s – 1020s 1030s 1040s
Years:	1008 1009 1010 – 1011 – 1012 1013 1014

Year 1011 (MXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.

Events[change | change source]

June 11 – the Byzantine army takes Bari from the rebellious Lombard lord Melus.^[1]
Danes capture Canterbury, taking Alphege, the Archbishop of Canterbury as a prisoner.^[2]
Byrhtferth of Ramsey writes his Manual, on the subject of time.^[2]
The German king Henry II gives Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia the Carinthian duchy, including the rule over the March of Verona (or in 1012).
Ermengol II succeeds Ermengol I as Count of Urgell
Albert II, Count of Namur succeeds Albert I

Baghdad Manifesto: Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah's fall from Ali ibn Abi Talib is disputed.
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), a famous Persian scientist working in Egypt, pretends to be crazy. He is kept under house arrest until 1021. During this time he begins writing his influential Book of Optics.
In Georgia, Bagrat III takes away Sumbat III of Klarjeti power.

↑ Norwich, John Julius (1967). The Normans in the South 1016-1130. London: Longmans.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Palmer, Alan Warwick; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0.
↑ Toumanoff, Cyril (1967). Studies in Christian Caucasian History, p. 498. Georgetown University Press.