1058

Events

* March 17 — King Lulach of Scotland is killed in battle against his cousin and rival Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, who later becomes King as Máel Coluim III.
* Antipope Benedict X is crowned pope, but later deposed.
* Pope Nicholas II is elected pope in December and installed in the following year.
* The Battle of Varaville is fought.
* Boleslaus II takes office as duke of Poland.
* Construction begins on the Cathedral of Parma, Italy.
* Aldred becomes the first English bishop to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
* The Almoravids conquer the Berghouata.

Births

* Al-Ghazali, Muslim theologian, jurist and mystic

Deaths

* March 17 — King Lulach of Scotland
* March 29 — Pope Stephen IX
* Casimir I of Poland (b. 1015)
* Saint Alfwold