1056

• Bishop Egelric resigned his bishopric at Durham; his brother Egelwine succeeded him.
  
• Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of Germany
  
• Odda's Chapel, started by Earl Odda, was completed
  
• Ottokar I, Count of Steyr, becomes Margrave of the Karantanian March, later known as Styria
  

Those who ruled:

• Aed in Gai Bernaig Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht, from 1046 to 1067
  
• Bagrat IV, King of All Georgia, Bagrationi Dynasty, from 1027 to 1072
  
• Bernard II, Duke of Saxony, from 1011 to 1059
  
• Daozong, Emperor of Khitan, from 1055 to 1101
  
• Edward the Confessor, King of England, from 1042 to 1066
  
• Ferdinand I, King of Castile and Leon, from 1035 to 1065
  
• Floris I, Count of West Friesland, from 1049 to 1061
  
• Go-Reizei, Emperor of Japan, from 1045 to 1068
  
• Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, King of Wales, from 1055 to 1063
  
• Henry I, King of France, from 1031 to 1060
  
• Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, from 1039 to 1056
  
• Henry IV, King of the Romans from 1056 to 1087, Holy Roman Emperor from 1084 to 1105
  
• Izjaslav I of Turov, Grand Prince of Kiev, from 1054 to 1068
  
• Kazimierz I, King of Poland, from 1039 to 1058
  
• Macbeth, King of Scotland, from 1040 to 1057
  
• Michael VI Stratioticus, Byzantine Emperor, from 1056 to 1057
  
• Munjong, King of Korea, Goryeo Dynasty, from 1046 to 1083
  
• Ramiro I, King of Aragon and Navarre, from 1035 to 1063
  
• Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona, from 1035 to 1076
  
• Renzong, Emperor of China, Song Dynasty, from 1022 to 1063
  
• Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, from 1032 to 1076
  
• Theodora, Byzantine Empress, the last member of the Macedonian Dynasty, 1042 and from 1055 to 1056
  
• Pope Victor II, Bishop of Rome, from 1055 to 1057
  
• Yizong, Emperor of Western Xia, from 1048 to 1067
  

Those who were born:

• Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut
  
• Hildegard, of Burgundy
  
• Nestor the Chronicler
  

Those who died:

• February 4, Bishop Athelstan of Hereford
• August 31, Theodora, Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire (born in 981)
  
• October 5, Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1017)
  

1055 - 1056 - 1057

11th century