1085
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This article is about the year 1085.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 1050s 1060s 1070s – 1080s – 1090s 1100s 1110s |
| Years: | 1082 1083 1084 – 1085 – 1086 1087 1088 |
| 1085 by topic | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1085 MLXXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 1838 |
| Armenian calendar | 534 ԹՎ ՇԼԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5835 |
| Bengali calendar | 492 |
| Berber calendar | 2035 |
| English Regnal year | 19 Will. 1 – 20 Will. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1629 |
| Burmese calendar | 447 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6593–6594 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 3781 or 3721 — to — 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 3782 or 3722 |
| Coptic calendar | 801–802 |
| Discordian calendar | 2251 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1077–1078 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4845–4846 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1141–1142 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1007–1008 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4186–4187 |
| Holocene calendar | 11085 |
| Igbo calendar | 85–86 |
| Iranian calendar | 463–464 |
| Islamic calendar | 477–478 |
| Japanese calendar | Ōtoku 2 (応徳２年) |
| Javanese calendar | 989–990 |
| Julian calendar | 1085 MLXXXV |
| Korean calendar | 3418 |
| Minguo calendar | 827 before ROC 民前827年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −383 |
| Seleucid era | 1396/1397 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1627–1628 |
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Year 1085 (MLXXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
- April 2 – Emperor Zhezong becomes emperor of Song Dynasty. Empress Dowager Gao cancels all the reform packages and dismisses pro-reform Wang Anshi.
- May 25 – Alfonso VI of Castile enters the Islamic city of Toledo, Spain, and invites French knights to settle the central plateau of Spain.
- The Domesday survey is commissioned by William I of England, apparently prompted by the abortive invasion of Canute IV of Denmark, to ensure proper taxation and levies.
- Henry IV extends the "Peace of God" over his entire empire.
- Katedralskolan in Lund, the oldest school in Scandinavia, is founded.
- Vratislav, Duke of Bohemia, is crowned King.
- By this year, the annual output of copper currency for the Chinese Song Dynasty reaches 6 billion coins a year, prompting the Chinese government to adopt the world's first paper-printed money later in the 1120s.
Births[edit]
- Alberich of Reims (d. 1141)
- Raoul I, Count of Vermandois (d. 1152)
- Robert fitz Martin, Norman knight and first Lord of Cemais, Wales (d. 1159)
- Zhang Zeduan, Chinese painter (d. 1145)
Deaths[edit]
- April 1 – Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048)
- May 25 – Pope Gregory VII
- July 15 – Robert Guiscard
- August 19 – Al-Juwayni , Muslim Scholar and Imam, Imam al Haramayn. (born 1028)
- Cheng Hao, Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher (b. 1032)
