1050

Year 1050 (ML) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Europe

 * Hedeby in Jutland is sacked by King Harald Hardrada of Norway, during the course of a conflict with Sweyn II of Denmark.
 * King Anund Jacob dies after a 28-year reign. He is succeeded by his elder half-brother Emund the Old as king of Sweden.
 * Macbeth, King of Scotland, makes a pilgrimage to Rome.

Africa

 * Aoudaghost, an important Berber trading center and rival of Koumbi Saleh, is captured by the Ghana Empire.

Religion

 * King Edward the Confessor unites the English dioceses of Devon and Cornwall. He moves the see from Crediton to Exeter and gives the order to build a cathedral. Leofric becomes the first bishop of Exeter.
 * The brewery of Weltenburg Abbey (modern Germany) is first mentioned, thus making it one of the oldest still operating breweries in the world (approximate date).

Births

 * November 11 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1106)
 * Amadeus II, count of Savoy (approximate date)
 * Berthold II, duke of Swabia (approximate date)
 * Bertrand of Comminges, French bishop (d. 1126)
 * Frederick I, duke of Swabia (approximate date)
 * Leopold II ("the Fair"), margrave of Austria (d. 1095)
 * Lhachen Gyalpo, king of Ladakh (approximate date)
 * Liutold of Eppenstein, German nobleman (approximate date)
 * Li Tang, Chinese landscape painter (approximate date)
 * Lope Íñiguez, lord of Biscay (approximate date)
 * Michael VII Doukas, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)
 * Muhammad al-Baghdadi, Arab mathematician (d. 1141)
 * Muirchertach Ua Briain, king of Munster (approximate date)
 * Olaf I ("Hunger"), king of Denmark (approximate date)
 * Olaf III ("the Peaceful"), king of Norway (approximate date)
 * Osbern of Canterbury, English hagiographer (d. 1090)
 * Peter the Hermit, French priest (approximate date)
 * Sophia of Hungary, duchess of Saxony (approximate date)
 * Sviatopolk II, Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1113)
 * Vidyakara, Indian Buddhist scholar (d. 1130)

Deaths

 * February 10 – Anna, Grand Princess of Kiev (b. 1001)
 * October 29 – Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury
 * Alferius (or Alferio), Italian abbot and saint (b. 930)
 * Anund Jacob (or James), king of Sweden (b. 1008)
 * Casilda of Toledo, Spanish saint (approximate date)
 * Constantine Arianites, Byzantine general
 * Einar Thambarskelfir, Norwegian nobleman
 * Herleva, Norman noblewoman (approximate date)
 * Hugh of Langres, French bishop and theologian
 * Humphrey de Vieilles, Norman nobleman
 * Michael Dokeianos, Byzantine general
 * Suryavarman I, king of the Khmer Empire
 * Wifred II, count of Cerdanya and Berga
 * Zoë, empress of the Byzantine Empire