1064

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1030s  1040s  1050s  – 1060s –  1070s  1080s  1090s
Years:	1061 1062 1063 – 1064 – 1065 1066 1067

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1064 (MLXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1064th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 64th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of the 11th century, and the 5th year of the 1060s decade. As of the start of 1064, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Yi Yuanji, the great master of simian painting, is invited to the imperial court, but dies soon after.

Americas

• Sunset Crater Volcano (present-day Arizona) first erupts.

Asia

• The Seljuk Turks storm Anatolia, taking Caesarea and Ani, marking the beginning of Turkish invasions into Anatolia.

Europe

• June 9 – Coimbra is taken by King Ferdinand of Castile.
• European warriors go to Spain to participate to the siege of Barbastro. This expedition is approved by the Pope and is now regarded as an early form of Crusade.
• Harold II is shipwrecked at Ponthieu, Normandy and taken captive by Count Guy.
• Construction of the Duomo at Pisa in Tuscany begins.

Births

• Borivoj II of Bohemia, a Duke of Bohemia
• Robert Fitz Richard, a Norman landowner in England
• Niels of Denmark, a King of Denmark

Deaths

• Abu Muhammad 'Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Sa`id Ibn Hazm
• Ottokar I of Styria
• Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar
• Yi Yuanji – Chinese Northern Song painter famous for his realistic paintings of animals (b. 1000)

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  The Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa (Italy)