1013

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Years: 1010 1011 1012 - 1013 - 1014 1015 1016

Decades: 980s 990s 1000s - 1010s - 1020s 1030s 1040s

Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century 1013 state leaders

Events

• Danish invasion of England under king Sweyn I. King Ethelred flees to Normandy, and Sweyn becomes king of England.
• The Poles withdraw from Pomerania (approximate date).
• The Jews are expelled from the caliphate of Cordoba.
• Lyfing is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
• Beauvais changes from a countship to a bishopry (approximate date).
• Second Italian campaign of German King Henry II.
• Al-Hakim Mosque completed in Cairo

Births

• Sancha of Leon, wife of Ferdinand I of Leon

Deaths

• Abu Al-Qasim, scholar of medicine
• Antipope John XVI