Year 1077 (MLXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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By place
Byzantine Empire
Europe
- January 25 – Walk to Canossa: Emperor Henry IV travels to the Castle of Canossa near Reggio Emilia (Northern Italy), to visit Pope Gregory VII. He waits (with his wife Bertha of Savoy and son Conrad) at the gates for three days, for absolution of his excommunication. Gregory lifts the sentence, imposing on Henry a vow to comply with certain conditions (see Investiture Controversy).
- King Alfonso VI ("the Brave") reaches an agreement with his cousin Sancho RamÃÂrez, who is elected as king of Navarre. Alfonso annexes the territories of ÃÂlava, part of Gipuzkoa and La Bureba, he is crowned and adopts the title of Imperator totius Hispaniae ("Emperor of all Spain").
- March 14 – German nobles opposing king Henry IV elected an antiking, Rudolf of Rheinfelden, despite king Henry having been absolved.
- April 3 – Henry IV grants the County of Friuli (with ducal status) to Sigaerd of Beilstein, patriarch of Aquileia. He creates the first Parliament, representing the communes as well the nobility and clergy.
- Hugh I, duke of Burgundy, supports Sancho RamÃÂrez (or Sancho V) in his conquest of the Castle of Muñones from Emir Ahmad al-Muqtadir, who rules the Taifa of Zaragoza.
- King Mihailo I is given the title "King of the Slavs" by Gregory VII. He becomes the first recognized ruler of the kingdom of Duklja (modern Montenegro).
England
Seljuk Empire
Africa
By topic
Arts
Religion
Births
Deaths
- April 11 – Anawrahta, founder of the Pagan Empire (b. 1014)
- April 25 – Géza I ("Magnus"), king of Hungary
- October 14 – Andronikos Doukas, Byzantine nobleman
- November 27 – Landulf VI, prince of Benevento
- December 14 – Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress
- December 21 – Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, Persian historian (b. 995)
- December 27 – Sviatoslav II, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1027)
- date unknown
- Eleanor of Normandy, countess of Flanders (b. 1010)
- Minamoto no Takakuni, Japanese nobleman (b. 1004)
- Roussel de Bailleul, Norman warrior and military leader
- Shao Yong, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (b. 1011)
- Zhang Zai, Chinese philosopher and cosmologist (b. 1020)
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