1076

Year 1076 (MLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Europe

 * January 24 – Synod of Worms: Emperor Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, holds a synod in Worms (modern Germany). The assembly declares Pope Gregory VII deposed, and the bishops abandon their allegiance to him.
 * February 22 – Gregory VII pronounces a sentence of excommunication against Henry IV at Rome. He is excluded from the Catholic Church, and all the bishops named by Henry are excommunicated.
 * Summer – Dirk V, count of Holland, re-conquers West Frisia (modern Netherlands) from the Archdiocese of Utrecht. He besieges Bishop Conrad at the castle of IJsselmonde, taking him prisoner.
 * October 8 – Demetrius Zvonimir is crowned as king of Croatia in Solin (near Split), in the Basilica of Saint Peter and Moses (known later as the Hollow Church) by a representative of Gregory VII.
 * December 13 – Norman conquest of southern Italy: Italo-Norman forces under Robert Guiscard de Hauteville and Richard I of Capua, conquer the fortress city of Salerno after a short siege.
 * December 26 – Bolesław II the Bold (or "the Generous") is crowned as King of Poland by Archbishop Bogumił in Gniezno Cathedral. Bolesław supports Gregory VII in his conflict against Henry IV.

England

 * May 31 – Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, a participant in the Revolt of the Earls against King William the Conqueror, is beheaded near Winchester.
 * Approximate date – The Trial of Penenden Heath is held, with an important ruling regarding land rights subsequent to the Norman Conquest.
 * November 1 – A frost begins that lasts until April 1077.

Africa

 * Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire (modern Mauritania), is besieged by the Almoravids (approximate date).

Asia

 * Vikramaditya VI deposes his older brother Someshvara II to become king of the Western Chalukya Empire (modern India).

Literature

 * Anselm of Aosta, an Italian Benedictine abbot, completes his Monologion at the request of his fellow monks.

Religion

 * Demetrius Zvonimir donates the Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory in Vrana to Gregory VII.

Births

 * June 1 – Mstislav I (the Great), Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1132)
 * Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Moorish scholar and judge (d. 1148)
 * Fujiwara no Sadazane, Japanese calligrapher (d. 1120)
 * Hualani, Hawaiian queen and regent (approximate date)
 * Urban (or Gwrgan), bishop of Llandaff (d. 1134)

Deaths

 * March 18 – Ermengarde of Anjou, duchess of Burgundy
 * March 21 – Robert I (the Old), duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
 * April 18 – Beatrice of Bar, French duchess and regent
 * April 28 – Sweyn II (Estridsson), king of Denmark
 * May 8 – Nasr ibn Mahmud, Mirdasid emir of Aleppo
 * May 26 – Ramon Berenguer I, count of Barcelona (b. 1023)
 * May 31 – Waltheof, earl of Northumbria (executed)
 * June 4 – Sancho IV, king of Pamplona (or Navarre)
 * July 15 – Arnost (or Arnošt), bishop of Rochester
 * Godfrey IV (the Hunchback), duke of Lower Lorraine
 * Ramihrdus of Cambrai, French priest and martyr (or 1077)
 * William Busac, English nobleman (jure uxoris) (b. 1020)