1060

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1030s  1040s  1050s  – 1060s –  1070s  1080s  1090s
Years:	1057 1058 1059 – 1060 – 1061 1062 1063

King Béla I of Hungary (c. 1015–1063)

Year 1060 (MLX) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• May – The Norman leader Robert Guiscard conquers Taranto.
• October – The Byzantine army defeats the Normans and enters Taranto.
• December 6 – Béla I the Champion is crowned king of Hungary.
• The New Book of Tang is completed under a team of scholars led by Ouyang Xiu.
• Chinese poet, calligrapher, and official Cai Xiang publishes his Cha Lu (Record of Tea).
• Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela reports that Constantinople has merchant communities from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Hungary, Persia, Russia, Sennar, and Spain as well as 2,000 Jews (approximate date).
• Philip I of France begins his reign.
• Upon the death of Emund the Old, he is succeeded by his son-in-law Stenkil as King of Sweden.

Deaths

• August 4 – King Henry I of France (b. 1008)
• November 14 – Count Geoffrey II of Anjou
• King Andrew I of Hungary (b. 1015)
• Emund the Old, king of Sweden since 1050
• Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet