1076

By place

Europe

• January 24 - Synod of Worms: Emperor Henry IV holds a synod in Worms. The assembly declares Pope Gregory VII deposed and the bishops abandons their allegiance to him.
• February 22 - Gregory VII pronounces a sentence of excommunication against Henry IV at Rome. He is excluded from the Catholic Church – and excommunicates all the bishops named by Henry.
• Summer - Dirk V, count of Holland, re-conquers West Frisia from the Archdiocese of Utrecht. He besieges Bishop Conrad at the castle of IJsselmonde – taking him prisoner.
• October 8 - Demetrius Zvonimir is crowned as king of Croatia in Solin, in the Basilica of Saint Peter and Moses by a representative of Gregory VII.
• December 13 - Norman Conquest of Southern Italy: Italo-Norman forces under Robert Guiscard de Hauteville and Richard I of Capua, conquer the fortress city of Salerno – after a short siege.
• December 26 - Bolesław II is crowned as king of Poland by Archbishop Bogumił in the Gniezno Cathedral. Bolesław supports Gregory VII in his conflict against Henry IV.

  England

• May 31 - Waltheof, one of the earls of an uprising against King William I, is beheaded near Winchester.
• The Trial of Penenden Heath is held, with an important ruling regarding land rights, subsequent to the Norman Conquest.
• November 1 - In England, a frost begins that lasts until April 1077.

  Africa

• Koumbi Saleh, an important mercantile and political center of the Ghana Empire, is besieged by the Almoravids.

  Asia

• Vikramaditya VI deposes his older brother Someshvara II, and becomes king of the Western Chalukya Empire.

  By topic

Literature

• Anselm of Aosta, a French Benedictine abbot, completes the Monologion at the request of his fellow monks.

  Religion

• Demetrius Zvonimir donates the Benedictine monastery of St. Gregory in Vrana to Gregory VII.