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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1011 1012 1013 - 1014 - 1015 1016 1017\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
980s 990s 1000s - 1010s - 1020s 1030s 1040s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
10th century - 11th century - 12th century\n|} Events\n* February 14 - Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany\n* July 29 - Battle of Kleidion: Basil II inflicts not only a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, but his subsequent savage treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of shock. \n* Henry II of Germany crowned Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Benedict VIII (ruled since 1003)\n* Following the death of Sweyn I, Ethelred II returns to England and retakes the English crown. Canute the Great returns to Denmark\n* Battle of Clontarf; forces under Brian Boru defeat several allied Viking forces in Ireland, ending their power there but killing Brian in the process\n* Colditz Castle is built \n* In England archbishop Wulfstan preaches his Latin homily, "Wulf's Address to the English" \n* Avicenna arrives at the court of Amir Majd al-Dawla at Jabal\n* in Kashmir, Abhinavagupta, the teacher of the poet Ksemendra, circulates his Greater commentary on the Pratyabhijna Darshana.\n* Holmgang declared illegal in Norway Births Deaths\n* February 3 - Sweyn I Haraldsson Forkbeard, king of Denmark. who had seized the throne of England for five weeks.\n* April 23 - Brian Boru, high king of Ireland during the Battle of Clontarf fought outside Dublin against the rebel Maelmordha of Leinster, who was aided by the Viking Sigtrygg of Dublin.\n* October 6 - Samuil of Bulgaria, Tsar of Bulgaria\n* Viking earl in the Orkneys, Sigurd the Stout, dies.\n* Sri RajaRaja I, the great temple builder of the Chola dynasty, dies at Thanjavur, in the Deccan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n