1051

Events

*Godwin, Earl of Wessex, is exiled from England by King Edward the Confessor for refusing to take action against the townspeople of Dover. He returns the following year.
* Hilarion of Kiev becomes the first native metropolitan of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Kievan Rus.
* May 19 — Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev at the cathedral of Reims.
* William of Normandy fights for his life and crown in Normandy.

Births

*Edgar Atheling, uncrowned King of England, 1066, after the Battle of Hastings
*Mi Fu, Chinese poet, painter, and calligrapher (d. 1107)

Deaths

* January 22 — Aelfric Puttoc, archbishop of York
* Bi Sheng, Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of movable type printing

Heads of states

* Holy See — Leo IX pope (1049–1054)