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1051

Years: 1048 1049 1050 - 1051 - 1052 1053 1054

Decades: 1020s 1030s 1040s - 1050s - 1060s 1070s 1080s

Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century

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.
• Ilarion of Russia becomes the first native metropolitan of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Kievan Rus.
• Rainy year in Belgium.

Births

Deaths

• January 22 - Aelfric Puttoc, archbishop of York

Heads of states

• Holy See - Leo IX pope (1049-1054)