1018

1018 (MXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1018th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 18th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 11th century, and the 9th year of the 1010s decade. As of the start of 1018, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1015 1016 1017 – 1018 – 1019 1020 1021

The Battle of Vlaardingen (Netherlands)

Asia

• The Liao Dynasty invades Goryeo.
• Largest amphibious invasion force in history at the time. Chola army that invaded Lanka (Sri Lanka) with a massive manpower of 150,000 troops.
• Battle of Kwiju: Korean General Gang Gam-chan gains a victory over Liao Dynasty forces during the Third Goryeo-Khitan War.

Europe

• January 30 – The Peace of Bautzen is signed between Poland and Germany.
• July 22–23 – Bolesław I Chrobry, Duke of Poland, defeats Yaroslav the Wise in the Battle of the River Bug. Yaroslav retreats to Novogrod, abandoning Kiev.
• July 29 – Dirk III, Count of Holland, defeats an army sent by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
• August – Leader of the remaining Bulgarian resistance, Ivats, is blinded and captured by strategos Eustathios Daphnomeles, confirming Bulgaria's position as part of the Byzantine Empire.
• August 14 – Bolesław accepts the surrender of Kiev by the Pechenegs. He reinstates Sviatopolk as Grand Prince of Kiev.
• c. October? – In Southern Italy, at the second battle of Cannae, the Lombard adventurer Melus of Bari and his Norman mercenaries are defeated by the Byzantine army led by the Catepan Basil Boioannes.
• Probable date
  • Battle of Carham: Malcolm II of Scotland and Owen the Bald of Strathclyde are victorious over Eadwulf Cudel, Earl of Bamburgh, confirming Scottish dominance over Lothian.
  • Cnut replaces his brother Harald II of Denmark on the Danish throne.

Religion

• Buckfast Abbey is founded.
• The city of Koblenz is given to the archbishop of Trier.

Births

• Harthacanute (or 1019) (d. 1042)
• Michael Psellus, Greek philosopher and historian

Deaths

• June 23 – Margrave Henry I of Austria
• Aeddan ap Blegywryd, King of Gwynedd
• Harald II of Denmark