1000

Alternate uses, see Number 1000.

Years: 997 998 999 - 1000 - 1001 1002 1003

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

Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century

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 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.
• 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. Meeting in Gniezno (with Boleslaw I Chrobry) was part of pilgrimage.

Births

• Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople.
• Constantine IX, Byzantine Emperor.

Deaths

• Olaf I of Norway, killed at the Battle of Svold.

Related topics

• Millenarianism