1061

Year 1061 (MLXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1030s  1040s  1050s  – 1060s –  1070s  1080s  1090s
Years:	1058 1059 1060 – 1061 – 1062 1063 1064

Pope Alexander II (r. 1061–1073)

Europe

• January – Robert de Grantmesnil, his nephew Berengar, half-sister Judith (future wife of Roger I of Sicily), and eleven monks of Saint-Evroul-sur-Ouche are forced to leave Normandy and head to the Mezzogiorno.
• October 1 – Pope Alexander II replaces Pope Nicholas II as the 156th pope.
• The Normans take over Messina in Sicily.
• Construction of the Speyer Cathedral in Speyer, Germany, begins.
• Vratislav II becomes duke of Bohemia.
• Most of West Frisia (later part of the county of Holland) is taken over by imperial German armies and given to the Bishop of Utrecht.
• Estonians destroy the castle of Yuryev in Tartu and carry out raids in the Pskov region in Russia.

Africa

• Yusuf ben Tashfin succeeds to the throne of Morocco, following the Almoravid conquest.

Deaths

• January 28 – Duke Spytihněv II of Bohemia (b. 1031)
• July 18 or July 27 – Pope Nicholas II