1036

Events 
 Emperor Go-Suzaku ascends the throne of Japan.
 Edward the Confessor's younger brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I.
 First appearance of the Flower Sermon in Buddhist literature

 Deaths 
 c. February 5 – Alfred Aetheling, Anglo-Saxon prince
 May 15 — Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008)
 June 12 — Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo
 June 13 — Ali Az-Zahir, caliph
 date unknown – Sweyn Knutsson, son of Canute the Great