1036

Year 1036 (MXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Europe

 * Summer – In Naples, Duke Sergius IV abdicates and retires to a monastery; he is succeeded by his son John V.
 * A Zirid expeditionary force invades Sicily and takes Palermo from the Normans, but fails to fully reconquer the island.

England

 * February 5 – Edward the Confessor's younger brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered, in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I.

Africa

 * June 13 – Caliph al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah dies after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his 6-year-old son al-Mustansir as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate. Vizier Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i will guide the regency for the first few years.

China

 * The Tangut script is devised by Yeli Renrong, for Emperor Jing Zong of Western Xia.

Japan

 * May 15 – Emperor Go-Ichijō dies at the age of 27 after a 20-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Go-Suzaku as the 69th emperor of Japan.

Religion

 * Pope Benedict IX is briefly forced out of Rome, but returns with the help of Emperor Conrad II (the Elder).
 * The Flower Sermon first appears in Buddhist literature.

Births

 * Anselm of Lucca (the Younger), Italian bishop (d. 1086)
 * Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress (d. 1127)
 * Igor Yaroslavich, prince of Smolensk (d. 1060)
 * Wang Shen, Chinese painter and poet (d. 1093)

Deaths

 * February 5 – Alfred Aetheling, Anglo-Saxon prince
 * March 17 – Gebhard II, bishop of Regensburg
 * May 15 – Go-Ichijō, emperor of Japan (b. 1008)
 * June 12 – Tedald (or Theobald), Italian bishop
 * June 13 – al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 1005)
 * August 25 – Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne
 * Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician (b. 960)
 * Alric of Asti (or Adalric), Lombard bishop
 * Berengar of Gascony, French nobleman
 * Emilia of Gaeta, Italian duchess and regent
 * Fujiwara no Ishi, Japanese empress (b. 999)
 * Hárek of Tjøtta, Norwegian Viking chieftain
 * Hisham III, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 973)