1016 Facts for Kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s 990s 1000s – 1010s – 1020s 1030s 1040s
Years:	1013 1014 1015 – 1016 – 1017 1018 1019

Year 1016 (MXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

March 10 – Emperor Sanjō gives up the throne of Japan and soon afterwards is replaced by his cousin Emperor Go-Ichijō, aged about 8.
Earthquakes partly destroy the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem.

March 25 – Battle of Nesjar (off the coast of Norway): Olaf Haraldsson is victorious over former co-regent Sweyn Haakonsson confirming his status as King of Norway.
April 23 – Æthelred, King of England, dies, and is replaced by his son Edmund Ironside.
c. May – Battle of Brentford (near London): King Edmund defeats the Danes under Cnut, Prince of Denmark.
October 18 – Battle of Ashingdon: Cnut defeats Edmund, leaving the latter as king of Wessex only.
November 30 – King Edmund dies and Cnut takes control of the whole of the Kingdom of England.
The Pisan and the Genoese republics launch a naval offensive against the Muslim strongholds of Sardegna, in particular Porto Torres and defeat the fleet of the taifa king of Denia, Mujahid al-Amiri al-Muwaffaq.
Melus of Bari makes a second attempt against Byzantine-held Southern Italy. To support his cause, he hires Norman mercenaries, unwittingly triggering the rise of Norman rule over southern Italy.
Georgius Tzul, ruler of Khazaria, is captured by a combined Byzantine Empire–Kievan Rus' force, which effectively ends Khazaria's existence.