1053 - Definition and Overview

Events

• June 18 - Battle of Civitate - 3000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey rout the troops of Pope Leo IX
• Good harvests in Europe
• Malcolm Canmore invades Scotland.

Births

• July 8 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
• Vladimir Monomakh (d. 1125)
• twins Ramon Berenguer II the Towhead and Berenguer Ramon II the Fratricide, counts of Barcelona

Deaths

• April 15 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex

Heads of states

• Denmark - Sweyn Estridson, King (1047 - 1076).
• England - Edward the Confessor, King (1042 - 1066).
• Holy See - Leo IX,Pope (1049-1054).
• Japan - Go-Reizei, Emperor (1045 - 1068)
• Kievan Rus' - Yaroslav I the Wise, Kniaz (1019 - 1054).
• Norway - Harald Hardråde, King (1046 - 1066).
• Scotland - Macbeth, King (1040 - 1057)