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

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

Year 1064 (MLXIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By area

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)