Ælfheah (, " elf-high "; 954 – 19 April 1012 ), officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

He also introduced new practices into the liturgy, and was instrumental in the Witenagemot's recognition of Wulfsige of Sherborne as a saint in about 1012.

Ælfheah refused to allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, and as a result was killed on 19 April 1012 at Greenwich ( then in Kent, now part of London ), reputedly on the site of St Alfege's Church.

Henry II ordered the building of a new cathedral, which was consecrated May 6, 1012.

Pope Benedict VIII ( died 9 April 1024 ), born Theophylactus, was Pope from 1012 to 1024.

Pope Benedict IX ( c. 1012 – c. 1056 ), born in Rome as Theophylactus of Tusculum, was Pope on three occasions between 1032 and 1048.

Pope Sergius IV ( died 12 May 1012 ), born in Rome as Pietro Martino Buccaporci, was Pope from 31 July 1009 until his death.

Sergius IV died on 12 May 1012 and was followed in the papacy by Pope Benedict VIII.

Year 1012 ( MXII ) was a leap year starting on Tuesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

In 1012 a five year peace was signed.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aemilianus and Bassus ( or, less frequently, year 1012 Ab urbe condita ).

The Archbishop, Alphege, was held hostage by the raiders and eventually killed at Greenwich on 19 April 1012, the first of Canterbury's five martyred archbishops.

Carinthia however remained a separate entity, and in 1012 Count Adalbero I of Eppenstein, Margrave of Styria since about 1000, was vested with the duchy by Emperor Henry II, while the Istrian march was separated and given to Count Poppo of Weimar.

Documented from 1012, it was one of the most important pievi of the diocese during the Middle Ages.

* Miners Foundry ( CHL No. 1012 ), 325 Spring Street, was the first manufacturing location of the Pelton wheel.

The population density was 1012. 2 people per square mile ( 390. 8 / km² ).

The population density was 1012. 4 people per square mile ( 390. 9 / km² ).

During the taifa era, it was ruled by the Moor Banu al-Amiri from 1012 to 1038, briefly annexed by Valencia ( 1038 – 1041 ), then given by Zaragoza to the Banu Sumadih dynasty until its conquest by the Almoravids in 1091.

The Old English name was ' Earninga Straete ' ( 1012 ), named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred, around Arrington, Cambridgeshire and Royston, Hertfordshire.

The Empress mother of the future Emperor Go-Sanjō was also known as Tishi, and a Yōmei-mon In ( 1012 – 94 ).

Based on calculations, using computer astronomy programs, Rohl asserts that the only time when this eclipse could have occurred during the whole second millennium BC was on 9 May 1012 BCE.

Among successors worthy of mention are the zealous Gero ( 1012 – 23 ); Werner ( 1063 – 78 ), who was killed in battle with Henry IV ; St. Norbert, prominent in the 12th century ( 1126 – 34 ), the founder of the Premonstratensian order.

The church is dedicated to, and reputedly marks the place where Alfege ( also spelt ' Alphege '), Archbishop of Canterbury, was killed by Viking raiders on 19 April 1012.

* 1012 BC: Acastus, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 36 years and is succeeded by his son Archippus.

* 1012 BC — Acastus, Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 36 years and is succeeded by his son Archippus.

However, the unexpected death of Otto III in 1002 and the reorientation of the Holy Roman Empire politics by his successor Henry II, the wedding is delayed until 1012, when Bolesław I demanded the wedding and sent his son to Germany with gifts to his bride's family, who at that time quarreled with Henry II for Mathilde's dowry.

In 1979 Bijlsma recorded the first ever recording of the six Suites for unaccompanied cello ( BWV 1007 – 1012 ) by J. S. Bach on a period instrument.

In 1012, Jaromír was dethroned by Oldřich and forced once again into exile.

* 1012: In Spain, power is captured by Bani Hamud.

While there had been a number of regional persecutions of Jews by Christians, such as the one in Metz in 888, a plot against Jews in Limoges in 992, a wave of anti-Jewish persecution by Christian millenniary movements ( who believed that Jesus was set to descend from Heaven ) in the year 1000, and the threat of expulsion from Treves in 1066 ; these are all viewed “ in the traditional terms of governmental outlawry rather than unbridled popular attacks .” Also many movements against Jews ( such as forced conversions by King Robert the Pious of France, Richard II, Duke of Normandy, and Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor around 1007 – 1012 ) had been quashed by either Roman Catholicism ’ s Papacy or its Bishops.

Associate Professor Martin Jarvis of the School of Music at Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia, claims that she composed the famed six cello suites ( BWV 1007 – 1012 ) and was involved with the composition of the aria from the Goldberg Variations ( BWV 988 ), a claim which is dismissed more recently by Yo Tomita.

Their children managed to escape to Constantinople, but Sumbat and Gurgen died in custody by 1012.

* Saint Benedict of Szkalka, a hermit on Mount Zobor in Hungary, disciple of St. Andrew Zorard, renowned for his asceticism, murdered by robbers ( 1012 )

Eadric appears to have acted as a go-between for Ethelred and the Danes, attempting to rescue St. Alphege (" Alfheah ") in 1012 by collecting a ransom.

He stayed very close to his overlords, the Fatimids of Egypt, on account of a power struggle amongst the Zirids-his right to rule was challenged by his great-uncle Zawi ibn Ziri, who was ultimately driven into Andalusia where he founded the Zirid dynasty of Granada ( 1012 – 1090 ).

* The German king Henry II enfeoffes Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia with the Carinthian duchy, including the rule over the March of Verona ( or in 1012 ).

Between 1012 and 1018 Thietmar of Merseburg wrote a Chronicon, or Chronicle, in eight books, which deals with the period between 908 and 1018.

In 1012, following the capture and murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the sack of Canterbury, the Danes were bought off with another 48, 000 troy pounds ( 17, 900 kg ) of silver.

After the collapse of the dynasty there was a hiatus before a new dynasty brought a revival in Germany with Ottonian art, again centred on the court and monasteries, with art that moved towards great expressiveness through simple forms that achieve monumentality even in small works like ivory reliefs and manuscript miniatures, above all those of the Reichenau School, such as the Pericopes of Henry II ( 1002 – 1012 ).

This so-called Baghdad Manifesto was read out in Friday mosques throughout the ‘ Abbasid domains accusing the Fatimids of Jewish ancestry also because of Al-Hakim ’ s alleged Christian mother he was accused of over sympathizing with non-Muslims and that he gave them more privileges than they should have been given under Islamic rule such accusations where manifested through poetry criticizing the Fatimids and that eventually led to the persecution of non-Muslims from 1007 till 1012.

In 1012 and in 1094, during the Song Dynasty, the temple was extended into a design with three sections and four courtyards, around which eventually more than 400 rooms were arranged.

* RMS Empress of Ireland an ocean liner which sank in 1914 with a loss of 1012 lives

Marpa Lotsawa ( 1012 – 1097 ), sometimes known fully as Lhodak Marpa Choski Lodos or commonly as Marpa the Translator, was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher credited with the transmission of many Vajrayana teachings from India, including the teachings and lineages of Mahamudra.

It has a population of 28, 607 as on 2001, with a sex-ratio of 1012 females to 1000 males.

As his father's successor in Norway, Håkon Eiriksson ruled as a Danish vassal from 1012 to 1015, with Einar Tambarskjelve as his aide and his uncle, Sveinn Hákonarson, holding some areas as a Swedish vassal.

Eventually, the two entities finally came to a paid compensation agreement on October 29 and WLUK's analog signal was restored on the same day with WLUK-DT being placed on digital channel 712 ( currently 1012 ) shortly thereafter giving the station's digital signal full cable and satellite carriage on par with the other big three network affiliates.

More singles followed in the 1970s, including 1974's " Not Now Arthur "/" If I Only Had My Time Again " ( BASFBA 1012 ), and in 1975 " I Only Have Eyes for You "/" One ' Fing ' N ' Annuver " ( RCA 2610 ) with " Yus My Dear "/" Arthur " ( RCA Z639A ) released in 1976.

Baha ' al-Daula ( died December 22, 1012 ) was the Buyid amir of Iraq ( 988 – 1012 ), along with Fars and Kerman ( 998 – 1012 ).