1051

1051 (MLI) was a common year beginning on a Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 11: In Byzantium, Theodora Porfirogeneta is crowned Empress.
• May 19: Henry I of France married Anne of Kiev in Reims Cathedral.
• In England, Godwin de Wessex is exiled by King Edward the Confessor for rejecting action against the people of Dover. Come back next year.
• Hilarion of Kiev becomes the first native metropolis of the Orthodox Church in the Rus of Kiev. He believed, in Kiev and Novgorod, a school of copists and translators.
• First wording Russian code.
• William of Normandy struggles for his life and crown in Normandy.