Explore 34 historical events from 1050–1059.
The Battle of Civitate was fought on 18 June 1053 in southern Italy, between the Normans, led by the Count of Apulia Humphrey of Hauteville, and a Swabian-Italian-Lombard army, org…
Battle of Civitate: Three thousand Norman horsemen of Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX
Emperor Shirakawa was the 72nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.
Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (died 1129)
Enguerrand II was the son of Hugh II count of Ponthieu. He assumed the county upon the death of his father on November 20, 1052.
Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu
Philip I, called the Amorous, was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108. His reign of nearly 48 years, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the tim…
Philip I of France (died 1108)
Guaimar IV was Prince of Salerno (1027–1052), Duke of Amalfi (1039–1052), Duke of Gaeta (1040–1041), and Prince of Capua (1038–1047) in Southern Italy over the period from 1027 to …
Prince Guaimar IV of Salerno
Vladimir Yaroslavich was Prince of Novgorod from 1036 until his death in 1052. He was the eldest son of Yaroslav I the Wise by Ingegerd Olofsdotter, a daughter of Olof Skötkonung, …
Vladimir of Novgorod (born 1020)
Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, also known by the honorific Muʿtamid al-Dawla, was the third Uqaylid emir of Mosul, and ruler of other towns in Iraq, from 1001 to 1050. An ambitious ruler…
Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir
Henry I was King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060. The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the …
Henry I of France marries the Rus' princess, Anne of Kiev
Bertha of Savoy, also called Bertha of Turin, was Queen of Germany from 1066 and Holy Roman Empress from 1084 until 1087 as the first wife of Emperor Henry IV.
Bertha of Savoy (died 1087)
Eadsige, was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1038 to 1050. He crowned Edward the Confessor as king of England in 1043.
Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury