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{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2013}} {{Year nav|1059}} {{Year in various calendars|1059}} {{Year article header|1059}} [[File:Robert Guiscard (by Merry-Joseph Blondel).jpg|thumb|alt=Duke Robert Guiscard (c. 1015–1085) |Duke Robert Guiscard (c. 1015–1085)]] == Events == * [[January 24]] &ndash; [[List of popes|Pope Nicholas II]] takes over for [[List of popes|Pope Stephen IX]] as the 155th [[Pope]]. He was placed in opposition to [[Antipope Benedict X]]. * August &ndash; [[Robert Guiscard]] signs the Treaty of Melfi with [[List of popes|Pope Nicholas II]]. * [[Anselm of Canterbury|Anselm]] settles at the [[Benedictine]] [[Abbey of Bec|monastery of Le Bec]] in [[Normandy]]. * The [[Lateran Council]] makes the [[College of Cardinals]] the sole voters in the [[Papal election|election of popes]]. * Muhammed ben Da'ud, known as [[Alp Arslan]], becomes second sultan of the [[Seljuk Turks]]. * [[Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia|Peter Krešimir IV]] is crowned [[King of Croatia|King of Croatia and Dalmatia]] * [[Isaac I Comnenus]] resigns as [[List of Byzantine Emperors|Byzantine Emperor]], appointing [[Constantine X|Constantine Ducas]] as his replacement. == Births == * [[Fulcher of Chartres]], chronicler historian of the [[Crusades#First Crusade|First Crusade]] == Deaths == * [[August 30]] &ndash; [[Peter Urseolo of Hungary]] * [[Michael Cerularius]], [[Patriarch of Constantinople]] == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1059}} [[Category:1059| ]]