1021
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Year 1021 (MXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events
- November – Emperor Henry II conducts his fourth Italian military campaign. He crosses the Brenner Pass with a 60,000-strong army, and reaches Verona, where he receives Lombard levies. Henry proceeds to Mantua and then into Ravenna, to spend Christmas there.
- The Taifa of Valencia, a Moorish kingdom in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), becomes independent from the Caliphate of Córdoba (approximate date).
- The last evidence of indigenous Christian and non-Arabophone culture in Tripolitania (modern Libya) is seen.
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Births
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Deaths
- February 13 – Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 985)
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