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