1094

Year 1094 (MXCIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1070s 1080s 1090s 1100s 1110s
Years:	1091 1092 1093 1094 1095 1096 1097

1094 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1094 MXCIV
Ab urbe condita	1847
Armenian calendar	543 ԹՎ ՇԽԳ
Assyrian calendar	5844
Balinese saka calendar	1015–1016
Bengali calendar	501
Berber calendar	2044
English Regnal year	7 Will. 2 – 8 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1638
Burmese calendar	456
Byzantine calendar	6602–6603
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 3790 or 3730     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3791 or 3731
Coptic calendar	810–811
Discordian calendar	2260
Ethiopian calendar	1086–1087
Hebrew calendar	4854–4855
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1150–1151
- Shaka Samvat	1015–1016
- Kali Yuga	4194–4195
Holocene calendar	11094
Igbo calendar	94–95
Iranian calendar	472–473
Islamic calendar	486–487
Japanese calendar	Kanji 8 / Kahō 1 (嘉保元年)
Javanese calendar	998–999
Julian calendar	1094 MXCIV
Korean calendar	3427
Minguo calendar	818 before ROC 民前818年
Nanakshahi calendar	−374
Seleucid era	1405/1406 AG
Thai solar calendar	1636–1637
Tibetan calendar	阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 1220 or 839 or 67     — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 1221 or 840 or 68

Portrait of Raymond IV (c. 1041–1105)

Events

By place

Byzantine Empire

• Spring – Emperor Alexios I (Komnenos) sends a Byzantine expeditionary force under General Tatikios to Nicaea in an attempt to re-capture the city from the Seljuk Turks. However the arrival of Barkiyaruq's army en route the Byzantines. Alexios sends reinforcements, short of supplies, the Seljuk Turks retreat. Abu'l-Qasim, Seljuk governor of Nicaea, is defeated and forced to conclude a truce with Alexios.[1]

Europe

• May – Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (El Cid) completes his conquest of Valencia in Al-Andalus (modern Spain). He begins his rule (in the name of King Alfonso VI) of Valencia. The Almoravid campaign to regain the city fails.[2]
• July 28 – William Bertrand dies and his margravial title of Provence is inherited by Raymond IV (Saint-Gilles) who becomes count of Toulouse (until 1105).

England

• May – Duncan II (son of the late King Duncan I) invades at the head of an army of Norman knights Scotland, aided by his half-brother Edmund. He succeeds his uncle, King Donald III (the Fair), as ruler of Scotland.[3]
• November 12 – King Donald III mobilizes his army and kills Duncan II in battle in the Lowlands. He re-takes the Scottish throne, Edmund sides with Donald as co-ruler and is named as heir as he has no children.

Seljuk Empire

• Sultan Mahmud I dies after a 2-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Barkiyaruq (one of the Seljuk princess who claim the throne) as ruler of the Seljuk Empire.

By topic

Religion

• May 15 – The Cathedral of St. Agatha in Catania (Sicily) is consecrated by the Breton abbot Ansger.
• October 8 – Doge Vitale Faliero consecrates the new Basilica of San Marco in Venice.
• King Ladislaus I of Hungary founds a diocese (alongside the bishop's see) in Zagreb.

Births

• January 14 – Eudokia Komnene, Byzantine princess (d. 1129)
• Abd al-Mu'min, Almohad caliph (approximate date)
• Ibn Zuhr (or Avenzoar), Moorish physician (d. 1162)
• Malachy, Irish archbishop and saint (d. 1148)
• Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (d. 1120)
• Yelü Dashi, founder of the Qara Khitai (d. 1143)

Deaths

• January 10 – Al-Mustansir Billah, Fatimid caliph (b. 1029)
• February 3
  • Al-Muqtadi, Abbasid caliph (b. 1056)
  • Teishi, Japanese empress (b. 1013)
• June 2 – Nicholas the Pilgrim, Italian shepherd (b. 1075)
• June 4 – Sancho V, king of Aragon and Pamplona
• July 28 – William Bertrand, margrave of Provence
• October 14
  • Bertha of Holland, French queen
  • Fujiwara no Nobunaga, Japanese nobleman (b. 1022)
• November 12 – Duncan II, king of Scotland
• Abu Ali Fana-Khusrau, Buyid nobleman
• Al-Bakri, Moorish historian and geographer
• Aq Sunqur al-Hajib, Seljuk sultan of Aleppo
• Badr al-Jamali, Fatimid vizier and statesman
• Isaac Albalia, Andalusian Jewish astronomer (b. 1035)
• Jonathan I, Italo-Norman count of Carinola
• Mahmud I, sultan of the Seljuk Empire
• Michael of Avranches, Italian bishop
• Roger de Beaumont, Norman nobleman
• Roger de Montgomery, Norman nobleman
• Terken Khatun, Seljuk empress and regent
• William Fitzeustace, Norman nobleman
• Wulfnoth Godwinson, English nobleman

References

1. Timothy Venning (2015). A Chronology of the Crusades, p. 24. ISBN 978-1-138-80269-8.
2. Picard C. (1997). La mer et les musulmans d'Occident au Moyen Age. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
3. Potter, Philip J. (2009). Gothic Kings of Britain: The Lives of 31 Medieval Rulers (1016–1399), pp. 127–128. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4038-2.