1056
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| Millennium | 
| 2nd millennium | 
| Centuries | 
| Decades | 
| Years | 
| 1056 by topic | 
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| Leaders | 
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| Birth and death categories | 
| Births – Deaths | 
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | 
| Establishments – Disestablishments | 
| Gregorian calendar | 1056 MLVI | 
| Ab urbe condita | 1809 | 
| Armenian calendar | 505 ԹՎ ՇԵ | 
| Assyrian calendar | 5806 | 
| Balinese saka calendar | 977–978 | 
| Bengali calendar | 462–463 | 
| Berber calendar | 2006 | 
| English Regnal year | N/A | 
| Buddhist calendar | 1600 | 
| Burmese calendar | 418 | 
| Byzantine calendar | 6564–6565 | 
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年 (Wood Goat) 3753 or 3546 — to — 丙申年 (Fire Monkey) 3754 or 3547 | 
| Coptic calendar | 772–773 | 
| Discordian calendar | 2222 | 
| Ethiopian calendar | 1048–1049 | 
| Hebrew calendar | 4816–4817 | 
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1112–1113 | 
| - Shaka Samvat | 977–978 | 
| - Kali Yuga | 4156–4157 | 
| Holocene calendar | 11056 | 
| Igbo calendar | 56–57 | 
| Iranian calendar | 434–435 | 
| Islamic calendar | 447–448 | 
| Japanese calendar | Tengi 4 (天喜4年) | 
| Javanese calendar | 959–960 | 
| Julian calendar | 1056 MLVI | 
| Korean calendar | 3389 | 
| Minguo calendar | 856 before ROC 民前856年 | 
| Nanakshahi calendar | −412 | 
| Seleucid era | 1367/1368 AG | 
| Thai solar calendar | 1598–1599 | 
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木羊年 (female Wood-Goat) 1182 or 801 or 29 — to — 阳火猴年 (male Fire-Monkey) 1183 or 802 or 30 | 
Year 1056 (MLVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.