1033
Year 1033 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- December 5 - A 1033 Jordan Rift [Valley earthquake|major earthquake] in the Jordan Valley devastates multiple cities across the Palestine region, killing many people and triggering a tsunami.
Europe
- February 2 - Emperor Conrad II holds an assembly at the Abbey of Payerne and is crowned King of Burgundy. He claims dominion over the Kingdom of Burgundy which is incorporated into the Holy Roman Empire.
- Treaty of Merseburg: Conrad II attends a Hoftag at Merseburg and signs an agreement with King Mieszko II. He divides Poland in three parts with Mieszko designated as supreme ruler, in exchange for Conrad's support.
By topic
Religion
- Panic spreads throughout Europe that the end of the universe may be near, on the 1,000th anniversary of the crucifixion of Christ, due to some unusually harsh spring weather. The Book of Revelation predicts the end of the earth after a 1,000 year period after the second return of Jesus Christ.
Births
- Anselm, English archbishop and philosopher
- Cheng Yi, Chinese neo-confucian philosopher
- Conan II, duke of Brittany
- Fujiwara no Atsuie, Japanese nobleman
- Fujiwara no Tadaie, Japanese statesman
- Judith of Flanders, German duchess
- Theobald of Provins, French hermit and saint
- Urraca of Zamora, Spanish noblewoman
Deaths
- May 11 - Ebles I, French nobleman and archbishop
- Abu Talib Yahya, Muslim imam
- Ahmad Inaltigin, Ghaznavid general and rebel leader
- Ibno Al-Thahabi, Moorish encyclopedist and physician
- John VIII bar Abdoun, patriarch of Antioch
- Liu, empress and regent of the Song dynasty
- Merewith, English abbot and bishop
- Otto Bolesławowic, Polish prince
- Rhydderch ap Iestyn, king of Gwent and Deheubarth