1059

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1056 1057 1058 – 1059 – 1060 1061 1062

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1059 (MLIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1059th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 59th year of the 2nd millennium, the 59th year of the 11th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1050s decade. As of the start of 1059, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Duke Robert Guiscard (c. 1015–1085)

Events

• January 24 – Pope Nicholas II takes over for Pope Stephen IX as the 155th Pope. He was placed in opposition to Antipope Benedict X.
• August – Robert Guiscard signs the Treaty of Melfi with Pope Nicholas II.
• Anselm settles at the Benedictine monastery of Le Bec in Normandy.
• The Lateran Council makes the College of Cardinals the sole voters in the election of popes.
• Muhammed ben Da'ud, known as Alp Arslan, becomes second sultan of the Seljuk Turks.
• Peter Krešimir IV is crowned King of Croatia and Dalmatia
• Isaac I Comnenus resigns as Byzantine Emperor, appointing Constantine Ducas as his replacement.

Births

• Fulcher of Chartres, chronicler historian of the First Crusade

Deaths

• August 30 – Peter Urseolo of Hungary
• Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople