1000

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This article is about the year. For other uses, see 1000 (number).

Years: 997 998 999 - 1000 - 1001 1002 1003

Decades: 970s 980s 990s - 1000s - 1010s 1020s 1030s

Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century 1000 state leaders

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 See also 5 Further reading

Events

• World Population 300 million.
• Gunpowder invented in China.
• Scandinavia, Iceland and Hungary Christianized.
• Stephen I becomes King of Hungary.
• Sancho III of Navarre becomes King of Aragon, Navarre, and Castile.
• Leif Ericson lands in North America, calling it Vinland.
• Sweyn I establishes Danish control over part of Norway.
• Dhaka, Bangladesh, is founded.
• Persian scientist Avicenna, hypothesized two causes of mountains: "Either they are the effects of upheavals of the crust of the earth, or they are the effect of water, which, cutting itself a new route, has denuded the valleys. He also published Al-Quanun, or The Canon of Medicine, where he held that medicines were to be known either by experiment or by reasoning.
• The Diocese of Kolobrzeg is founded.
• Emperor Otto III makes pilgrimage from Rome to Aachen and Gniezno (Gnesen), stopping at Regensburg, Meissen, Magdeburg, and Gniezno. Congress of Gniezno (with Boleslaw I Chrobry) was part of pilgrimage.
• The Hutu arrive in present-day Rwanda and Burundi, soon outnumbering the native Twa.
• Château de Goulaine vineyard founded in France.
• Fonderia Pontificia Marinelli bell foundry founded in Italy.
• archdiocese in Gniezno is founded, first archibishop is Gaudentius, from Slavník's dynasty

Births

• Archbishop Adalbert of Hamburg (died 1072)
• Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople (approximate date; died 1059)
• Constantine IX, Byzantine Emperor (approximate date; died 1055)
• Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, ruler of Wales (approximate date; died 1063)
• Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine

Deaths

• September 9 - Olaf I of Norway, killed at the Battle of Svold (b. 969)
• Al-Khujandi, Persian astronomer
• Elfrida, second wife of Edgar of England
• Kuhi, Persian mathematician and astronomer
• Garcia IV of Pamplona
• Tlilcoatzin, Toltec ruler (approximate date)

See also

• Millenarianism
• List of state leaders in 1000
• 1000 A.D. Game Page: [1]

Further reading

• Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (1999) ISBN 0316558400