1062
Year 1062 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- Spring - Coup of Kaiserswerth: The 11-year-old King Henry IV is abducted, as a result of a conspiracy of German nobles led by Anno II, archbishop of Cologne. Henry's education and training is supervised by Anno, who acts as his regent and is called his magister. Empress Agnes of Poitou resigns the throne, and Anno with the archbishops Siegfried I and Adalbert of Hamburg takes her place.
Britain
- Winter - Harold Godwinson leads a successful campaign against King Gruffydd ap Llywelyn. He attacks and captures Rhuddlan Castle in northern Wales, but Gruffydd manages to escape.
Africa
- The Almoravids overrun modern-day Morocco, and establish an intercontinental kingdom, stretching from Spain to Senegal.
- The Banu Khurasan, a vassal of the Hammdid Dynasty, begin to rule the north of Ifriqiya.
- Marrakesh is founded by the Almoravids which becomes their capital.
By topic
Religion
- Affligem Abbey, of the Order of St. Benedict, is founded in Affligem.
Births
- Bjørn Svendsen, Danish nobleman
- Fujiwara no Moromichi, Japanese nobleman
- Nicephorus Bryennius, Byzantine statesman
- Nicephorus Komnenos, Byzantine aristocrat
Deaths
- January 27 - Adelaide of Hungary, German duchess
- February 2 - Atenulf I, Lombard nobleman
- March 9 - Herbert II, French nobleman
- May 20 - Bao Zheng, Chinese politician
- October 22
- * Abe no Sadato, Japanese nobleman
- * Fujiwara no Tsunekiyo, Japanese nobleman
- Abu Mansur Fulad Sutun, Buyid emir of Fars
- Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya
- Al-Quda'i, Fatimid preacher and historian
- Emma of Provence, French noblewoman
- Geoffrey I, French nobleman
- Mu'izz al-Dawla Thimal, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
- Nissim ben Jacob, Tunisian Jewish rabbi
- William IV, count of Weimar and Orlamünde
- Ibn al-Timnah, Emir of Syracuse