1052

Year 1052 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

England

Summer - Godwin, Earl of Wessex, sails with a large fleet up the Thames to London, forcing King Edward the Confessor to reinstate him into his previous position of power.
Africa
Battle of Haydaran: The Zirid dynasty is defeated by the invading Bedouin Arab tribes of the Banu Hilal.
By topic

Religion

Byōdō-in, a Japanese Buddhist temple, changes its name by order of Fujiwara no Yorimichi.
Births
May 23 - Philip I, king of France
September/October - Conrad II, duke of Bavaria
Agnes of Aquitaine, countess of Savoy
Dirk V, count of Friesland
Edgar Ætheling, uncrowned king of England
Gleb Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince
Jón Ögmundsson, Icelandic bishop and saint
Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Norman nobleman
Roman Svyatoslavich, Kievan prince
Deaths
March 6 - Emma of Normandy, queen consort of England, Denmark and Norway
May 6 - Boniface III, Italian prince and margrave
June 2/4 - assassinations
* Guaimar IV of Salerno, Italian nobleman
* Pandulf III of Salerno, Lombard prince
* Pandulf of Capaccio, Lombard nobleman
June 19 - Fan Zhongyan, chancellor of the Song dynasty
October 4 - Vladimir Yaroslavich, Grand Prince of Kiev
October 27 - Qirwash ibn al-Muqallad, Uqaylid emir
December 14 - Aaron Scotus, Irish abbot and musician
Amadeus I, count of Savoy
Halinard, French archbishop
Hugh II, count of Ponthieu
Rodulf, Norman missionary bishop and abbot
Sweyn Godwinson, English nobleman
Xu Daoning, Chinese painter
Xuedou Chongxian, Chinese Buddhist monk