1015
Year 1015 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- October - Influential Japanese statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga is appointed to be Associate Regent.
- November - The newly constructed Japanese imperial residence burns down.
- Peacocks arrive from the Chinese Song Empire to Fujiwara's mansion in Japan.
Europe
- July 15 - Vladimir the Great dies at Berestove after a 35-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Sviatopolk I as Grand Prince of Kiev.
- Summer - King Cnut the Great of Denmark launches an invasion of Mercia and Northumbria in England.
- Emperor Henry II launches a German expedition against Duke Bolesław I the Brave. He invades Poland, but is stopped by Bolesław's forces at Krosno, on the Oder River.
- Earl Eric Haakonsson outlaws berserkers in Norway.
- Olaf Haraldsson declares himself King of Norway.