1018

Year 1018 (MXVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (liNk will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades: 980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years: 1015 1016 1017 – 1018 – 1019 1020 1021
The Battle of Vlaardingen (Netherlands)
The Battle of Vlaardingen (Netherlands)

Events

Asia
  • The Liao Dynasty invades Goryeo.
  • Largest amphibious invasion force in history at the time. Chola army that invaded Lanka (Sri Lanka) with a massive manpower of 150,000 troops.
  • Battle of Kwiju: Korean General Gang Gam-chan gains a victory over Liao Dynasty forces during the Third Goryeo-Khitan War.

Europe
  • January 30 – The Peace of Bautzen is signed between Poland and Germany.
  • July 22–23 – Bolesław I Chrobry, Duke of Poland, defeats Yaroslav the Wise in the Battle of the River Bug. Yaroslav retreats to Novogrod, abandoning Kiev.
  • July 29 – Dirk III, Count of Holland, defeats an army sent by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, in the Battle of Vlaardingen.
  • August – Leader of the remaining Bulgarian resistance, Ivats, is blinded and captured by strategos Eustathios Daphnomeles, confirming Bulgaria's position as part of the Byzantine Empire.
  • August 14 – Bolesław accepts the surrender of Kiev by the Pechenegs. He reinstates Sviatopolk as Grand Prince of Kiev.
  • c. October? – In Southern Italy, at the second battle of Cannae, the Lombard adventurer Melus of Bari and his Norman mercenaries are defeated by the Byzantine army led by the Catepan Basil Boioannes.[1]
  • Probable date

Religion
  • Buckfast Abbey is founded.
  • The city of Koblenz is given to the archbishop of Trier.

Births
  • Harthacanute (or 1019) (d. 1042)
  • Michael Psellus, Greek philosopher and historian

Deaths
  • June 23 – Margrave Henry I of Austria
  • Aeddan ap Blegywryd, King of Gwynedd
  • Harald II of Denmark

References
  1. Kleinhenz, Christopher (2010). Medieval Italy: an encyclopedia. New York: Routledge. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-415-93930-0.
  2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 105–106. ISBN 978-0-304-35730-7.
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