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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
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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