1028
Year 1028 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
- November 11 - Emperor Constantine VIII dies at Constantinople after a 3-year reign. On his deathbed, and without a male heir, Constantine arranges that his eldest daughter, Zoë Porphyrogenita, succeeds him and marries the Byzantine nobleman, Romanos III.
- November 15 - Zoë Porphyrogenita takes the throne as empress consort. Her husband, Romanos III becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
England
- Cnut the Great sails from England to Norway with a fleet of 50 ships. He defeats Olaf Haraldsson and is crowned king of Norway. Cnut becomes the sole ruler of England, Denmark and part of Sweden.
Europe
- April 14 - The 10-year-old Henry III, son of Emperor Conrad II, is elected and crowned king of Germany in Aachen Cathedral by Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne.
- King Sancho Garcés III conquers Castile .
Births
- February 17 - Al-Juwayni, Persian scholar and imam
- Burchard II, bishop of Halberstadt
- Nuño Álvarez de Carazo, Spanish nobleman and warrior
- Qutb Shah, Persian Sufi religious leader and scholar
- Robert of Molesme, founder of the Cistercian Order
- William I, king of England
Deaths
- January 3 - Fujiwara no Michinaga, Japanese nobleman
- August 7 - Alfonso V, king of León
- November 11 - Constantine VIII, Byzantine emperor
- Lin Bu, Chinese poet and calligrapher
- Liu Wenzhi, Chinese official of the Song dynasty
- Lý Công Uẩn, founder of the Vietnamese Lý dynasty
- Qawam al-Dawla, Buyid governor and ruler of Kerman
- Sayyida Shirin, Bavandid princess and wife of Fakhr al-Dawla
- William of Bellême, French nobleman