1023

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Year 1023 (MXXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= January–March =

  • January 16 – (21 Shawwal 413 AH) The Grand Vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt is executed only nine months after succeeding Khatir-al-Mulk.Yaacov Lev, State and Society in Fatimid Egypt (Brill, 2022) p.36
  • January 24 – A solar eclipse is visible from London.Samuel J. Johnson, Eclipses, Past and Future, With General Hints for Observing the Heavens (James Parker and Company, 1874) p.44
  • February 5 – At Cairo in the Fatimid Caliphate, the Caliph al-Zahir li-I'zaz Din Allah attains full power upon the death of his aunt, Sitt al-Mulk.{{Cite journal |last=Lev |first=Yaacov |date=1987 |title=THE FĀTIMID PRINCESS SITT AL-MULK |url=https://academic.oup.com/jss/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jss/XXXII.2.319 |journal=Journal of Semitic Studies |language=en |volume=XXXII |issue=2 |pages=319–328 |doi=10.1093/jss/XXXII.2.319 |issn=0022-4480|url-access=subscription }}
  • February 12 – (18 Dhu-I-qa'da 413 AH) In Spain, Al-Ma'mun al-Qāsim ibn Ḥammud returns to Cordoba to become the new Emir, after the Emir Yaḥya ibn ʿAli ibn Ḥammud al-Muʿtali bi-llāh leaves the city and moves to Malaga. Al-Qasim reigns for 10 months before being forced out by Abd al-Rahman V.Peter C. Scales, The Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba: Berbers and Andalus is in Conflict (E. J. Brill, 1993) p.103
  • February 23 – The Chitragupta Temple (now in India at Khajuraho at the Madhya Pradesh state) is consecrated to the Hindu god Shiva, at the Maha Shivaratri celebration.{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Rana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQoaBwAAQBAJ |title=Cosmic Order and Cultural Astronomy: Sacred Cities of India |date=2009-10-02 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-1607-6 |pages=58 |language=en}}
  • March 27Gebhard von Hohenwart becomes the new Bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria, upon the death of Gebhard of Swabia.{{Cite book |last=Bernhardt |first=John W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iIiloa3-AlIC |title=Itinerant Kingship and Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, C.936-1075 |date=2002-08-22 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-52183-3 |language=en}}
  • MarchMusharrif al-Dawla, ruler of Iraq, comes to Baghdad to see the Abbasid Caliph al-Qadir, and attempts to defy the caliphate.{{Cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Islam |year=1978 |volume=4 |pages=378–379 |oclc=871362861}}

= April–June =

  • April 10 – Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Thu'ban becomes the new Emir of Halab (in what is now northern Syria) after Safiyy al-Dawla is dismissed by the Caliph al-Hakim.{{Cite book |last=Zakkār |first=Suhayl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbltAAAAMAAJ |title=The Emirate of Aleppo, 1004-1094 |date=1971 |publisher=Dar al-Amanah |pages=64–65 |language=en}}
  • May 11 – In the Kingdom of León in Spain, the Abbot Oliba declines to authorize the wedding of King Alfonso V to Urraca Garcés, the sister of King Sancho of Pamplona, describing it as incesti connubii. The wedding takes place anyway.{{Cite book |last=Díez |first=Gonzalo Martínez |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=414ogOEsMSUC |title=Sancho III el Mayor: rey de Pamplona, Rex Ibericus |date=2007 |publisher=Marcial Pons Historia |isbn=978-84-96467-47-7 |language=es}}
  • May 16 – From his capital at Mainz in Germany, Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, issues a grant of lands in Tragoess (now in Austria) to the Göss Abbey.
  • June 15 – (17th day before the kalends of July) The body of the late Ælfheah of Canterbury, the former Archbishop of Canterbury who will later be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint and a martyr of the church, is reburied at Canterbury Cathedral on orders of England's King Canute, after being moved from St. Paul's Cathedral in London on June 12 (the 3rd day before the ides of June). King Canute, whose Danish troops had murdered Archbishop Ælfheah on April 19, 1012, during Canute's invasion of England, has ordered the reburial as an atonement for Ælfheah's death.[https://www.st-alfege.org.uk/Groups/299331/Who_was_St_Alfege.aspx "Who was St Alfege?"], St Alfege Church Greenwich"Ælfheah (d. 1012)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (October 2006 ed.)(Oxford University Press, 2006)

= July–September =

= October–December =

= By place =

== Europe ==

== Asia ==

  • April/May (Jian 3, 4th month) – An epidemic in Kyoto (Japan) is so severe that there are corpses in the streets;{{Citation needed|date=February 2022}} disease spreads throughout the country.
  • 60th birthday and longevity ceremony of Japanese matriarch Minamoto no Rinshi, wife of Fujiwara no Michinaga.
  • The Ghaznavid Empire occupies Transoxiana (approximate date).

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== Religion ==

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