1017

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s 990s 1000s – 1010s – 1020s 1030s 1040s
Years:	1014 1015 1016 – 1017 – 1018 1019 1020

Year 1017 (MXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

c. May – Melus of Bari begins a rebellion, supported by Norman mercenaries. His forces are victorious in three battles against the Byzantine Empire.
c. July – Cnut the Great, King of England, marries Emma of Normandy, widow of the monarch known as Æthelred.[1]
Cnut divides England into the four Earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.[1]
Kiev burns. Possible date at which construction of Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev, is started.

Abd-ar-Rahman IV replaces Suleiman II as Umayyad caliph.
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.

Sunni revolt of Kairouan against the Shi'ite Zirid dynasty. The city is quickly retaken, robbed and destroyed.[2]

Palmer, Alan Warwick; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-0-7126-5616-0.
Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.48.

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