1051

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)