Peter Urseolo (or Orseolo) was the second king of Hungary and reigned from 1038 till 1041 and from 1044 till 1046 after a brief interruption of three years in which Sámuel Aba ruled the nation. Events Independent declaration of Western Xia. ... Events December 10 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. Revolt at Worcester against the naval taxes of Harthacanute. ... Events King Anawrahta seizes the throne of Pagan, Myanmar Births Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as The Cid (d. ... // Events First contact between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuks. ...

He was said to be the son of the sister of his predecessor, Saint Stephen (István I) and the doge of Venice. Because of his Italian descent he is classified as a non-dynastic king. Unlike Stephen, he was unable to properly rule the nation and got into conflict with the largely pagan nobility. A statue of Stephen the Great King Stephen the Great or St. ... The chief office in the historical city states of Venice and Genoa was the Doge (from the Latin dux--leader). ... Location within Italy Venice (Italian: Venezia), the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, 45°26′ N 12°19′ E, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). ... Within a Christian context, Paganism (from Latin paganus) and Heathenry are a catch-all terms which has come to connote a broad set of spiritual/religious beliefs and practices of a natural religion, as opposed to the Abrahamic religions. ...

His reign ended when the nobility started the so-called Vatha pagan rising.

A year of instability followed and finally in 1047 the Árpád dynasty was restored with Andrew (András) I. Events William the Conqueror, with assistance from King Henry I of France, secured control of Normandy by defeating the rebel Norman barons at Caen the Battle of Val-ès-Dunes Births Deaths October 9 - Pope Clement II Categories: 1047 ... The Árpáds (Hungarian: Árpádok, Slovak: Arpádovci, Croatian: Arpadovići) were a dynasty ruling in historic Hungary from the late 9th century to 1301 (with some interruptions, e. ... Andrew I (born c. ...

See also

• Kings of Hungary

This is a list of all rulers of Hungary since Árpád. ...

Stephen the Great raising the double cross: equestrian sculpture by Alajos Stróbl, 1906, crowns the Fishermens Bastion, Budapest. ... This is a list of all rulers of Hungary since Árpád. ... Events Independent declaration of Western Xia. ... Events December 10 - Empress Zoe of Byzantium elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. Revolt at Worcester against the naval taxes of Harthacanute. ... This is a list of all rulers of Hungary since Árpád. ... Events King Anawrahta seizes the throne of Pagan, Myanmar Births Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as The Cid (d. ... // Events First contact between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuks. ... Andrew I (born c. ...