upright=1.35|thumb|Gold coin of [[Al-Mustansir Billah|Al-Mustansir (r. 1036–1094)]]
Year 1036 (MXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
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By place
Europe
- Summer – In Naples, Duke Sergius IV abdicates and retires to a monastery; he is succeeded by his son John V.
- A Zirid expeditionary force invades Sicily and takes Palermo from the Normans, but fails to fully reconquer the island.
England
- February 5 – Edward the Confessor's younger brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered, in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I.
Africa
- June 13 – Caliph al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah dies after a 16-year reign. He is succeeded by his 6-year-old son al-Mustansir as ruler of the Fatimid Caliphate. Vizier Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i will guide the regency for the first few years.
China
- The Tangut script is devised by Yeli Renrong, for Emperor Jing Zong of Western Xia.
Japan
- May 15 – Emperor Go-Ichijō dies at the age of 27 after a 20-year reign. He is succeeded by his brother Go-Suzaku as the 69th emperor of Japan.
By topic
Religion
- Pope Benedict IX is briefly forced out of Rome, but returns with the help of the elder Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor.
- The Flower Sermon first appears in Buddhist literature.</onlyinclude>
Births
- Anselm of Lucca (the Younger), Italian bishop (d. 1086)
- Fujiwara no Hiroko, Japanese empress (d. 1127)
- Igor Yaroslavich, prince of Smolensk (d. 1060)
- Wang Shen, Chinese painter and poet (d. 1093)
Deaths
- February 5 – Alfred Aetheling, Anglo-Saxon prince
- March 17 – Gebhard II, bishop of Regensburg
- May 15 – Go-Ichijō, emperor of Japan (b. 1008)
- June 12 – Tedald (or Theobald), Italian bishop
- June 13 – al-Zahir li-i'zaz Din Allah, Fatimid caliph (b. 1005)
- August 25 – Pilgrim, archbishop of Cologne
- Abu Nasr Mansur, Persian mathematician (b. 960)
- Alric of Asti (or Adalric), Lombard bishop
- Berengar of Gascony, French nobleman
- Emilia of Gaeta, Italian duchess and regent
- Fujiwara no Ishi, Japanese empress (b. 999)
- Hárek of Tjøtta, Norwegian Viking chieftain
- Hisham III, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 973)