1090

1090 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1090
MXC
Ab urbe condita1843
Armenian calendar539
ԹՎ ՇԼԹ
Assyrian calendar5840
Balinese saka calendar1011–1012
Bengali calendar496–497
Berber calendar2040
English Regnal yearWill. 2 – 4 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar1634
Burmese calendar452
Byzantine calendar6598–6599
Chinese calendar己巳年 (Earth Snake)
3787 or 3580
    — to —
庚午年 (Metal Horse)
3788 or 3581
Coptic calendar806–807
Discordian calendar2256
Ethiopian calendar1082–1083
Hebrew calendar4850–4851
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1146–1147
 - Shaka Samvat1011–1012
 - Kali Yuga4190–4191
Holocene calendar11090
Igbo calendar90–91
Iranian calendar468–469
Islamic calendar482–483
Japanese calendarKanji 4
(寛治4年)
Javanese calendar994–995
Julian calendar1090
MXC
Korean calendar3423
Minguo calendar822 before ROC
民前822年
Nanakshahi calendar−378
Seleucid era1401/1402 AG
Thai solar calendar1632–1633
Tibetan calendarས་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Earth-Snake)
1216 or 835 or 63
    — to —
ལྕགས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་
(male Iron-Horse)
1217 or 836 or 64
Hassan-i Sabbah (c. 1050–1124)

Year 1090 (MXC) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

  • A third Almoravid expedition is launched in Al-Andalus, designed to finally subdue the Taifa's Kingdoms. The cities of Córdoba, Seville, Granada, Málaga, Almería and Ronda fall to the troops of Sultan Yusuf ibn Tashfin.[1]
  • King Stephen II of Croatia becomes involved in an open conflict between factions of the Croatian nobility, who reassert their traditional rights in their own counties.

Seljuk Empire

Africa

  • Béjaïa (or Bugia) becomes the capital of the Hammadid dynasty in modern-day Algeria. It becomes an important port and centre of culture.

By topic

Arts and Culture

Science and Technology

  • Qin Guan, Chinese poet of the Song dynasty, writes the Can Shu (Book of Sericulture), which describes a silk-reeling machine that has the world's oldest known mechanical belt drive.

Births

Deaths

  • March 22 – García II, king of Galicia and Portugal (b. 1042)
  • April 16 – Sikelgaita, Lombard duchess of Apulia (b. 1040)
  • May 3 – Adelaide of Rheinfelden, queen consort of Hungary[5]
  • May 12 – Liutold of Eppenstein, German nobleman
  • May 18 – Berthold of Rheinfelden, German nobleman
  • June 26 – Jaromír, Bohemian prince and bishop
  • July 3 – Egbert II (or Ekbert), German nobleman
  • August 11 – Fujiwara no Atsuie, Japanese nobleman (b. 1033)[6]
  • August 13 – Constance of Normandy, duchess of Brittany
  • unknown dates
    • Abd al-Jalil ibn Wahbun, Moorish poet and writer
    • Fayun Faxiu, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk (b. 1027)
    • Richard fitz Gilbert, Norman nobleman (b. c.10350
    • Guo Xi, Chinese landscape painter[7]
    • St Isaiah of Rostov, Kievan missionary and bishop[8]
    • Raynald I, French Benedictine abbot (b. 1059)
    • William of Poitiers, French priest and chronicler (b. c.1020)
  • probable
    • Osbern of Canterbury, English hagiographer

References

  1. ^ Gilbert Meynier (2010). L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; p. 83.
  2. ^ Steven Runciman (1952). A History of the Crusades. Vol II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem, pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-0-241-29876-3.
  3. ^ John B. Freed (January 1, 2016). Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth. Yale University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0-300-12276-3.
  4. ^ McMillan, Peter. 2010 (1st ed. 2008). One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each. New York: Columbia University Press. Page 146
  5. ^ Eleventh-century Germany: The Swabian chronicles. Manchester University Press. January 1, 2013. p. 299. ISBN 978-1-5261-1282-8.
  6. ^ Kanō, higefumi (1983). "Fujiwara no Atsuie" 藤原敦家. Nihon Koten Bungaku Daijiten 日本古典文学大辞典 (in Japanese). Vol. 5. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten. p. 267. OCLC 11917421.
  7. ^ Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three thousand years of Chinese painting. New Haven, Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6 Page 372
  8. ^ Alban Butler; Paul Burns (January 1, 1997). Butler's Lives of the Saints. A&C Black. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-86012-254-8.