1000
EventsWorld 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 alsoMillenarianismList 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
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