1017
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Year 1017 (MXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events
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Asia
- Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares the founding of the Druze religion. During the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
- Rajendra Chola is annexed the island of Sri Lanka.
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Africa
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Europe
- c. May – Melus of Bari begins a rebellion, supported by Norman mercenaries. His Lombard forces are victorious in three pitched battles against the Byzantine Empire.
- c. July – Cnut the Great, King of England, marries Emma of Normandy, widow of the penultimate monarch, Æthelred.
- Cnut divides England into the four Earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.
- Kiev burns. Possible date at which construction of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev, is started.
- Abd ar-Rahman IV succeeds Sulayman as Umayyad caliph.
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Births
- October 28 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)
- Zhou Dunyi, Neo-Confucian philosopher in Song Dynasty China (d. 1073)
- Ramanujacharya, Sri Vaishnavism philosopher
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Deaths
- June 5 – Ex-Emperor Sanjō of Japan (b. 975)
- July 6 – Genshin, Japanese scholar (b. 942)
- Autumn – Elvira of Castile, Queen of León (b. 965)
- c. December 25 – Eadric Streona, Earldorman of Mercia (killed)
- Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona (b. 972)
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