1015

Year in topic Year 1015 (MXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Asia

 * October – Influential Japanese statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga is appointed to be Associate Regent.
 * November – The newly constructed Japanese imperial residence burns down.
 * Peacocks arrive from the Chinese Song Empire to Fujiwara's mansion in Japan.

Europe

 * July 15 – Vladimir the Great dies at Berestove after a 35-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Sviatopolk I as Grand Prince of Kiev.
 * Summer – King Cnut the Great of Denmark launches an invasion of Mercia and Northumbria in England.
 * Emperor Henry II launches a German expedition against Duke Bolesław I the Brave. He invades Poland, but is stopped by Bolesław's forces at Krosno, on the Oder River.
 * Earl Eric Haakonsson outlaws berserkers in Norway.
 * Olaf Haraldsson declares himself King of Norway.

Births

 * Andrew I ("the Catholic"), king of Hungary (d. 1060)
 * Altmann, bishop of Passau (approximate date)
 * Ermesinda of Bigorre, queen of Aragon (d. 1049)
 * Eustace II, count of Boulogne (approximate date)
 * Ferdinand I, king of León and Castile (d. 1065)
 * Frozza Orseolo, margravine of Austria (d. 1071)
 * Harald Hardrada, king of Norway (d. 1066)
 * Herman IV, duke of Swabia (approximate date)
 * John Komnenos, Byzantine aristocrat (d. 1067)
 * Michael V Kalaphates, Byzantine emperor (d. 1042)
 * Otto II, margrave of Montferrat (approximate date)
 * Robert Guiscard, Norman nobleman (d. 1085)
 * Roger de Beaumont, Norman nobleman (d. 1094)

Deaths

 * February 5 – Adelaide, German abbess and saint
 * February 13 – Gilbert of Meaux, French bishop
 * July 15 – Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev
 * September 1 – Gero II, margrave of the Saxon Ostmark
 * September 12 – Lambert I, count of Louvain (b. 950)
 * December 14 – Arduin of Ivrea, king of Italy (b. 955)
 * December 20 – Eido I, bishop of Meissen (b. 955)
 * date unknown
 * Æthelmær the Stout, English ealdorman
 * Al-Sharif al-Radi, Persian Shi'ite scholar (b. 970)
 * Gavril Radomir, emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria
 * Geoffrey (or Godfrey), count of Eu (b. 962)
 * Herbert III, count of Vermandois (b. 953)
 * Hugh III, count of Maine (approximate date)
 * Ibn Furak, Muslim imam and theologian (b. 941)
 * Irene of Larissa, empress (tsarina) of Bulgaria
 * Liu Zong, Chinese official of the Song Dynasty
 * Masawaih al-Mardini, Syrian physician and writer
 * Morcar (or Morkere), English minister (thegn)
 * Owain ap Dyfnwal, king of Strathclyde (Scotland)
 * Rodulf of Ivry, Norman nobleman (approximate date)
 * Sigeferth (or Sigefrith), English chief minister
 * Vikramaditya V, Indian ruler of the Chalukya Empire