1017

Years: 1014 1015 1016 - 1017 - 1018 1019 1020

Decades: 980s 990s 1000s - 1010s - 1020s 1030s 1040s

Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century 1017 state leaders

Events

• Canute the Great is acclaimed king of England.
• England is divided into the earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and Northumbria.
• Abd-ar-Rahman IV is Umayyad caliph, succeeding Suleiman II.
• Canute marries Emma of Normandy.
• Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah to be God, founding the Druze religion.

Births

• October 29 - Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1056)

Deaths

• Abd-ar-Rahman IV, Umayyad caliph

See also: 1017, 1000s, 1010s, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1018, 1019, 1020, 1020s