1037
Year 1037 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Spring - A revolt in northern Italy is started by Archbishop Aribert of Milan. King Henry III travels south of the Alps to quell it.
- February - At an Imperial Diet in Pavia, Aribert is accused of fomenting a revolt against the Holy Roman Empire, Conrad orders his arrest.
- May - Conrad II, with Pavian assistance, lays siege to Milan at the Porta Romana side, but the city holds out. In Rome, Pope Benedict IX deposes Aribert as archbishop.
- May 28 - Conrad II decrees the Constitutio de Feudis which protects the rights of the valvassores in Lombardia.
- Summer - A Byzantine expeditionary force under George Maniakes lands at Sicily, and defeats the Zirids. Maniakes begins his campaign to reconquer the island.
- September 4 - Battle of Tamarón: Ferdinand I defeats and kills his brother-in-law Bermudo III. Ferdinand becomes the king of Castile and León.
- November 15 - Battle of Bar-le-Duc: Odo II, Count of Blois and Champagne, while invading the Duchy of Lorraine dies in battle with forces loyal to Gothelo I.
England
- King Harold I seizes the throne of England from his half-brother Harthacnut. His mother, Emma of Normandy, flees to Bruges in Flanders.
Asia
- The Chinese rime dictionary of the Jiyun is published during the Song Dynasty.
- The Great Seljuk Empire is established by Tugrul Bey.
Births
- January 8 - Su Dongpo, Chinese calligrapher
- Beatrice I, German abbess of Quedlinburg
- Hawise, duchess of Brittany
Deaths
- September 4 - Bermudo III, king of León
- November 15 - Odo II, French nobleman
- Abu'l-Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami, Persian poet
- Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Persian Shafi'i scholar
- Baba Kuhi of Shiraz, Persian Sufi mystic
- Avicenna, Persian physician and polymath
- Boleslaus III, duke of Bohemia
- Ding Wei, grand chancellor of the Song Dynasty
- Farrukhi Sistani, Persian poet
- John of Debar, Bulgarian clergyman and bishop
- Muhammad al-Baghdadi, Persian mathematician
- Muirgeas ua Cú Ceanainn, king of Uí Díarmata
- Robert II, French prelate and archbishop
- Siegfried II, German nobleman
- William III, French nobleman