1036
Year 1036 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Summer - In Naples, Duke Sergius IV abdicates and retires to a monastery; he is succeeded by his son John V.
- A Zirid expeditionary force invades Sicily and takes Palermo from the Normans, but fails to fully reconquer the island.
England
- February 5 - Edward the Confessor's younger brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered, in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I.
Africa
- June 13 - Caliph al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah dies after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his 6-year-old son al-Mustansir as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate. Vizier Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i will guide the regency for the first few years.
China
- The Tangut script is devised by Yeli Renrong, for Emperor Jing Zong of Western Xia.
Japan
- May 15 - Emperor Go-Ichijō dies at the age of 27 after a 20-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Go-Suzaku as the 69th emperor of Japan.
By topic
Religion
- Pope Benedict IX is briefly forced out of Rome, but returns with the help of the elder Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor.
- The Flower Sermon first appears in Buddhist literature.
Births
- Anselm of Lucca, Italian bishop
- Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress
- Igor Yaroslavich, prince of Smolensk
- Wang Shen, Chinese painter and poet
Deaths
- February 5 - Alfred Aetheling, Anglo-Saxon prince
- March 17 - Gebhard II, bishop of Regensburg
- May 15 - Go-Ichijō, emperor of Japan
- June 12 - Tedald, Italian bishop
- June 13 - al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah, Fatimid caliph
- August 25 - Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne
- Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician
- Alric of Asti, Lombard bishop
- Berengar of Gascony, French nobleman
- Emilia of Gaeta, Italian duchess and regent
- Fujiwara no Ishi, Japanese empress
- Hárek of Tjøtta, Norwegian Viking chieftain
- Hisham III, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba