1078

This article is about the year 1078.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1040s  1050s  1060s  – 1070s –  1080s  1090s  1100s
Years:	1075 1076 1077 – 1078 – 1079 1080 1081

1078 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1078 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1078 MLXXVIII
Ab urbe condita	1831
Armenian calendar	527 ԹՎ ՇԻԷ
Assyrian calendar	5828
Bengali calendar	485
Berber calendar	2028
English Regnal year	12 Will. 1 – 13 Will. 1
Buddhist calendar	1622
Burmese calendar	440
Byzantine calendar	6586–6587
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 3774 or 3714     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 3775 or 3715
Coptic calendar	794–795
Discordian calendar	2244
Ethiopian calendar	1070–1071
Hebrew calendar	4838–4839
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1134–1135
- Shaka Samvat	1000–1001
- Kali Yuga	4179–4180
Holocene calendar	11078
Igbo calendar	78–79
Iranian calendar	456–457
Islamic calendar	470–471
Japanese calendar	Jōryaku 2 (承暦２年)
Julian calendar	1078 MLXXVIII
Korean calendar	3411
Minguo calendar	834 before ROC 民前834年
Seleucid era	1389/1390 AG
Thai solar calendar	1620–1621

Year 1078 (MLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• The Romanesque church is finished at Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain.
• Anselm of Canterbury becomes abbot of Bec Abbey.
• The White Tower of the Tower of London was built (approximate date).

Asia

• The Battle of Kalavrye is fought.
• The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia is founded (approximate date).
• By this year, the iron industry in Song dynasty China is producing a total weight of 127,000,000 kg (125,000 t) of iron product per year.

Africa

The Almoravid emir, Yusuf ibn Tashfin besieges Ceuta. Since the city can receive help from the sea, the siege will last until 1083.

Births

• King Alexander I of Scotland (d. 1124)

Deaths

• November 11 – Udo of Nellenburg, Archbishop of Trier (during the siege of Tübingen)
• Rhys ab Owain, king of Deheubarth, Wales