1056

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1020s  1030s  1040s  – 1050s –  1060s  1070s  1080s
Years:	1053 1054 1055 – 1056 – 1057 1058 1059

1056 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1056 MLVI
Ab urbe condita	1809
Armenian calendar	505 ԹՎ ՇԵ
Assyrian calendar	5806
Balinese saka calendar	977–978
Bengali calendar	463
Berber calendar	2006
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1600
Burmese calendar	418
Byzantine calendar	6564–6565
Chinese calendar	乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3752 or 3692     — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3753 or 3693
Coptic calendar	772–773
Discordian calendar	2222
Ethiopian calendar	1048–1049
Hebrew calendar	4816–4817
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1112–1113
- Shaka Samvat	977–978
- Kali Yuga	4156–4157
Holocene calendar	11056
Igbo calendar	56–57
Iranian calendar	434–435
Islamic calendar	447–448
Japanese calendar	Tengi 4 (天喜４年)
Javanese calendar	959–960
Julian calendar	1056 MLVI
Korean calendar	3389
Minguo calendar	856 before ROC 民前856年
Nanakshahi calendar	−412
Seleucid era	1367/1368 AG
Thai solar calendar	1598–1599
Tibetan calendar	阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1182 or 801 or 29     — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1183 or 802 or 30

1056 (MLVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1056th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 56th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 11th century, and the 7th year of the 1050s decade. As of the start of 1056, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Michael VI ('the Old')

Events

• Anselm of Canterbury leaves Italy.
• Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of Germany.
• Ottokar, Count of Steyr, becomes Margrave of the Karantanian March, later known as Styria