1023

Years: 1020 1021 1022 - 1023 - 1024 1025 1026

Decades: 990s 1000s 1010s - 1020s - 1030s 1040s 1050s

Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century

For the number 1023 see, 1023 (number)

Events

* The Judge-Governor of Sevilla takes advantage of the disintegration of the caliphate of Córdoba and seizes power as Abbad I, thus founded the Abbadid dynasty.
* Abd ar-Rahman V proclaimed Caliph at Córdoba

Births

* William VII of Aquitaine (d. 1058)

Deaths

*Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York
*Oda von Haldensleben, wife of Mieszko I
*Llywelyn ap Seisyll, King of Gwynedd
*Sitt al-Mulk, regent of the Fātimid Caliphate (1021 to 1023) for ˤAlī az-Zāhir, the Seventh Caliph (1021 to 1036).

Heads of State

* Byzantine Empire - Basil II (976 to 1025)
* England - Canute the Great (1016 to 1035)
* France - Robert II the Pious (996 to 1031)
* Germany - Henry II (1002 to 1024)
* Holy See - Benedict VIII (1012 to 1024)

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