1057

Events 

 By place 

 Africa 
 The Banu Hilal take Kairouan. The Zirid dynasty has to move to Mahdiya.

 Asia 
 King Anawrahta of Burma takes over Thanton in northern Thailand, strengthening Theravada Buddhism in the country.

 Europe 
 King Macbeth of Scotland is killed in battle against Malcolm III of Scotland. He is replaced as King of Scotland by his stepson Lulach.
 William the Conqueror defeats a Franco-Angevin army at the mouth of the Dives River, Normandy in the Battle of Varaville.
 Ferdinand I of Castile takes Lamego and Viseu from Christian lords allied to the Muslim taifas.

 By topic 

 Religion 
 August 2 – Pope Stephen IX (sometimes referred to as Stephen X) replaces Pope Victor II as the 154th pope.

 Births 
 Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1093)

 Deaths 
 Jōchō, Japanese sculptor
 March 1 – Ermesinde of Carcassonne, countess and regent of Barcelona (b. 972)
 July 28 – Pope Victor II
 August 15 – King Macbeth of Scotland
 Late August – Edward the Exile, son of Edmund II of England
 August 31 – Leofric, Earl of Mercia

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