1053

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1050 1051 1052 - 1053 - 1054 1055 1056\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1020s 1030s 1040s - 1050s - 1060s 1070s 1080s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
10th century - 11th century - 12th century\n|}\n

Events

\n* June 18 - Battle of Civitate - 3000 horsemen of Norman Count Humphrey route the troops of Pope Leo IX \n* Good harvests in Europe\n*Malcolm Canmore invades Scotland. \n

Births

\n*Emperor Shirakawa of Japan\n*Vladimir Monomakh\n*twins Ramon Berenguer II the Towhead and Berenguer Ramon II the Fratricide, counts of Barcelona

Deaths

\n*April 15 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex

Heads of states

• Denmark - Sweyn Estridson, King (1047 - 1076).\n*England - Edward the Confessor, King (1042 - 1066).\n* Holy See - Leo IX,Pope (1049-1054).\n* Japan - Go-Reizei, Emperor (1045 - 1068)\n*Kievan Rus' - Yaroslav I the Wise, Kniaz (1019 - 1054).\n* Norway - Harald Hardråde, King (1046 - 1066).\n*Scotland - Macbeth, King (1040 - 1057)

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