What is 1061?
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2013}} {{Year nav|1061}} {{Year in various calendars|1061}} {{Year article header|1061}} [[File:Alessandro-ii-color.jpg|thumb|alt=Pope Alexander II (r. 1061–1073) |Pope Alexander II (r. 1061–1073)]] == Events == === By place === ==== Europe ==== * January &ndash; [[Robert de Grantmesnil (archbishop)|Robert de Grantmesnil]], his nephew [[Berengar, Bishop of Venosa|Berengar]], half-sister Judith (future wife of [[Roger I of Sicily]]), and eleven monks of [[Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche]] are forced to leave [[Normandy]] and head to the [[Mezzogiorno]]. * [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Pope Alexander II]] replaces [[List of popes|Pope Nicholas II]] as the 156th [[pope]]. * The [[Normandy|Normans]] take over [[Messina]] in Sicily. * Construction of the [[Speyer Cathedral]] in [[Speyer]], [[Germany]], begins. * [[Vratislav II]] becomes duke of [[Bohemia]]. * Most of West Frisia (later part of the county of [[Holland]]) is taken over by imperial German armies and given to the [[Bishop of Utrecht]]. * [[Estonians]] destroy the castle of Yuryev in [[Tartu]] and carry out raids in the [[Pskov]] region in [[Russia]]. ==== Africa ==== * Yusuf ben Tashfin succeeds to the throne of [[Morocco]], following the [[Almoravid]] conquest. == Deaths == * [[January 28]] &ndash; Duke [[Spytihněv II of Bohemia]] (b. [[1031]]) * [[July 18]] or [[July 27]] &ndash; [[List of popes|Pope Nicholas II]] == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1061}} [[Category:1061| ]]