1095

This article is about the year 1095.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	1060s  1070s  1080s  – 1090s –  1100s  1110s  1120s
Years:	1092 1093 1094 – 1095 – 1096 1097 1098

1095 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1095 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1095 MXCV
Ab urbe condita	1848
Armenian calendar	544 ԹՎ ՇԽԴ
Assyrian calendar	5845
Bengali calendar	502
Berber calendar	2045
English Regnal year	8 Will. 2 – 9 Will. 2
Buddhist calendar	1639
Burmese calendar	457
Byzantine calendar	6603–6604
Chinese calendar	甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 3791 or 3731     — to — 乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 3792 or 3732
Coptic calendar	811–812
Discordian calendar	2261
Ethiopian calendar	1087–1088
Hebrew calendar	4855–4856
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1151–1152
- Shaka Samvat	1017–1018
- Kali Yuga	4196–4197
Holocene calendar	11095
Igbo calendar	95–96
Iranian calendar	473–474
Islamic calendar	487–488
Japanese calendar	Kahō 2 (嘉保２年)
Julian calendar	1095 MXCV
Korean calendar	3428
Minguo calendar	817 before ROC 民前817年
Seleucid era	1406/1407 AG
Thai solar calendar	1637–1638

Year 1095 (MXCV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

• March – Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus sends ambassadors to Pope Urban II, at the Council of Piacenza, to discuss sending mercenaries against the Seljuk Turks.
• July – Coloman begins to establish himself as King of Hungary, following the death of his father.
• August 5 – The Valence Cathedral is consecrated in Valence, France.

Pope Urban II at Council of Clermont, 1095

• November 19 – The Council of Clermont begins. The council is called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
• November 27 – Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont; Peter the Hermit begins to preach throughout France.
• Overpopulation in France, according to Pope Urban II.
• November 28 – On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
• Cuman invasion of Thrace in support of pretender Constantine Diogenes.
• The County of Portugal is established for the second time by Count Henry of Burgundy. The same year, the Almoravids start pushing back the Christians to the positions they occupied a decade earlier. This offensive begins with the reconquest of Lisbon which had been given away to Castile four years before.
• Pembroke Castle is built in Wales.

Births

• July 4 – Usamah ibn Munqidh, Muslim chronicler
• December 22 – Roger II of Sicily (d. 1154)
• date unknown
  • Amadeus III of Savoy
  • Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk
  • Kogyo-Daishi, restorer of Shingon Buddhism in Japan

Deaths

• January 19 – Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester
• June 26 – Robert, Bishop of Hereford
• July 29 – King Ladislaus I of Hungary
• August 18 – King Olaf I of Denmark
• October 12 – Margrave Leopold II of Austria
• Shen Kuo, polymath Chinese scientist of Song dynasty China