Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	1020s 1030s 1040s 1050s 1060s
Years:	1045 1046 1047 1048 1049 1050 1051

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1048 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1048 MXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	1801
Armenian calendar	497 ԹՎ ՆՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	5798
Balinese saka calendar	969–970
Bengali calendar	455
Berber calendar	1998
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1592
Burmese calendar	410
Byzantine calendar	6556–6557
Chinese calendar	丁亥年 (Fire Pig) 3745 or 3538 — to — 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 3746 or 3539
Coptic calendar	764–765
Discordian calendar	2214
Ethiopian calendar	1040–1041
Hebrew calendar	4808–4809
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1104–1105
- Shaka Samvat	969–970
- Kali Yuga	4148–4149
Holocene calendar	11048
Igbo calendar	48–49
Iranian calendar	426–427
Islamic calendar	439–440
Japanese calendar	Eishō 3 (永承３年)
Javanese calendar	951–952
Julian calendar	1048 MXLVIII
Korean calendar	3381
Minguo calendar	864 before ROC 民前864年
Nanakshahi calendar	−420
Seleucid era	1359/1360 AG
Thai solar calendar	1590–1591
Tibetan calendar	阴火猪年 (female Fire-Pig) 1174 or 793 or 21 — to — 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 1175 or 794 or 22

Year 1048 (MXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

September 18 – Battle of Kapetron: A combined Byzantine-Georgian army, under Byzantine generals Aaronios and Katakalon Kekaumenos (supported by the Georgian duke Liparit IV), confronts the invading Seljuk Turks, led by Ibrahim Inal (a half-brother of Sultan Tughril), at Kapetron (near modern-day Pasinler). The Byzantines defeat their opposing Turkish forces in the flanks, but in the centre Ibrahim Inal captures Liparit, and can safely withdraw from Byzantine territory, laden with spoils and captives, including Liparit.^[1]
Winter – Emperor Constantine IX sends an embassy with gifts and a ransom, to release Liparit IV to Tughril. However, the sultan sets Liparit free, on the condition that he will never again fight the Seljuks.

Winter – Emperor Henry III (the Black) appoints his cousin, Bishop Bruno of Toul (related to the counts of Egisheim-Dagsburg in Upper Alsace), as successor of Damasus II at an assembly at Worms.
The city of Oslo is founded by King Harald III (Hardrada) of Norway (approximate date).^[2]

1048 or 1066 – End of the Viking Age: Vikings make an unsuccessful raid on the Kingdom of England; The raiders flee to Flanders (modern Belgium).^[3]
King Edward the Confessor goes to war against Flanders, blockading the English Channel with a fleet based at Sandwich in Kent.^[3]

Catastrophic Yellow River flood in Northern Song China, river changes its course until 1194.

July 16 – At orders of Henry III, German troops under Boniface III (Canossa), enter Rome and expel Pope Benedict IX.
July 17 – Pope Damasus II succeeds Benedict IX as the 151st pope of the Catholic Church, but he dies after 23 days.

December – Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg, bishop of Toul, is selected as the new pope by an assembly at Worms - after canonical election in Rome next February, he assumed the name Leo IX.

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