1076
Year 1076 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.Events
By place
Europe
- January 24 - Synod of Worms: Emperor Henry IV holds a synod in Worms. The assembly declares Pope Gregory VII deposed and the bishops abandons their allegiance to him.
- February 22 - Gregory VII pronounces a sentence of excommunication against Henry IV at Rome. He is excluded from the Catholic Church – and excommunicates all the bishops named by Henry.
- Summer - Dirk V, count of Holland, re-conquers West Frisia from the Archdiocese of Utrecht. He besieges Bishop Conrad at the castle of IJsselmonde – taking him prisoner.
- October 8 - Demetrius Zvonimir is crowned as king of Croatia in Solin, in the Basilica of Saint Peter and Moses by a representative of Gregory VII.
- December 13 - Norman Conquest of Southern Italy: Italo-Norman forces under Robert Guiscard de Hauteville and Richard I of Capua, conquer the fortress city of Salerno – after a short siege.
- December 26 - Bolesław II is crowned as king of Poland by Archbishop Bogumił in the Gniezno Cathedral. Bolesław supports Gregory VII in his conflict against Henry IV.
- May 31 - Waltheof, one of the earls of an uprising against King William I, is beheaded near Winchester.
- The Trial of Penenden Heath is held, with an important ruling regarding land rights, subsequent to the Norman Conquest.
- November 1 - In England, a frost begins that lasts until April 1077.
Africa
- Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire, is besieged by the Almoravids.
Asia
- Vikramaditya VI deposes his older brother Someshvara II, and becomes king of the Western Chalukya Empire.
By topic
Literature
- Anselm of Aosta, a French Benedictine abbot, completes the Monologion at the request of his fellow monks.
Religion
- Demetrius Zvonimir donates the Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory in Vrana to Gregory VII.
Births
- June 1 - Mstislav I, Grand Prince of Kiev
- Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Moorish scholar and judge
- Fujiwara no Sadazane, Japanese calligrapher
- Hualani, Hawaiian queen and regent
- Urban, bishop of Llandaff
Deaths
- March 18 - Ermengarde of Anjou, duchess of Burgundy
- March 21 - Robert I, duke of Burgundy
- April 18 - Beatrice of Bar, French duchess and regent
- April 28 - Sweyn II, king of Denmark
- May 8 - Nasr ibn Mahmud, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
- May 26 - Ramon Berenguer I, count of Barcelona
- May 31 - Waltheof, earl of Northumbria
- June 4 - Sancho IV, king of Pamplona
- July 15 - Arnost, bishop of Rochester
- Godfrey IV, duke of Lower Lorraine
- Ramihrdus of Cambrai, French priest and martyr
- William Busac, English nobleman