1049

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1010s  1020s  1030s  – 1040s –  1050s  1060s  1070s
Years:	1046 1047 1048 – 1049 – 1050 1051 1052

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1049 (MXLIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1049th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 49th year of the 2nd millennium, the 49th year of the 11th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1040s decade. As of the start of 1049, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Pope Leo IX (1002–1054)

Africa

• Beginning of the Banu Hilal invasions in the Maghrib. They are organized by the Egyptian Fatimid dynasty to punish their former Zirid vassals.

Asia

• A truce is declared between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks.
• Construction of the large Iron Pagoda in Kaifeng, China, is completed in this year during the Song Dynasty.

Europe

• The Pisans successfully complete the take over of Sardegna upon the Andalusian occupiers.
• Viking Irish raiders ally with Gruffydd ap Rhydderch of Gwent in raiding along the River Usk. Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, is unsuccessful in driving them off.

Religion

• February 12 – Pope Leo IX replaces Pope Damasus II as the 152nd pope.

Deaths

• Eustace I, Count of Boulogne
• Pope Sylvester III (born 1000)