1051

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1048 1049 1050 – 1051 – 1052 1053 1054

Henry I of France marries Anna of Kiev.

Year 1051 (MLI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• Godwin, Earl of Wessex, is forced to leave 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.

• Heregeld is ended by King Edward the Confessor of England.

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 – Ælfric Puttoc, archbishop of York
• Bi Sheng, Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of movable type printing