1061

1061 (MLXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1061st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 61st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 11th century, and the 2nd year of the 1060s decade. As of the start of 1061, 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:	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