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 in [the Middle Ages|France]
- September/October - Conrad [II, Duke of Bavaria|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 (872–1397)|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