1000

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.
• 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.
• The Hutu arrive in present-day Rwanda and Burundi, soon outnumbering the native Twa.

Births

• Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1059)
• Constantine IX, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1055)

Deaths

• Olaf I of Norway, killed at the Battle of Svold (b. 969)
• Tlilcoatzin, Toltec ruler (exact year uncertain)

See also

• Millenarianism
• List of state leaders in 1000
• 1000 A.D. Game Page: http://www.1000ad.net/thegame/

Further reading

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

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