This page lists news articles and events for the year 1000.
Events that happen on the specified date are listed under Events: entries. News articles that were published on the specified date are listed under News: entries. Events that only happened in fiction on the specified date are listed under Fiction: entries and are written in italics.
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Undated
- The Arab world and the Islamic World experiencing a Golden Age. The Abbasid Caliphate control a large geographic area, and maintain extensive trade networks.
- Emperor Zhenzong of Song rules the Song Dynasty in China.
- The Hutu arrive in present-day Rwanda and Burundi.
- Leif Ericson lands in North America
- Aztec civilization migrates to Tenochtitlan in Mexico
- Iceland adopts Christianity as its official religion.
- Scientific achievements in the Arab civilization reach their zenith, with the emergence of the first experimental scientists; several important scientific treatises are published on medicine, astronomy, and optics.
- Gunpowder is invented in China.
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
- September 9:
- Event: King Olaf Tryggvason is killed in the Battle of Svolder, although rumors persist of his survival.
October
November
December
Overview
Arab and Muslim world
The Arab world and the Islamic World were experiencing a Golden Age around the year 1000. The Abbasid Caliphate controlled a large geographic area, and maintained extensive trade networks.
The scientific achievements of the Muslim Civilization also reaches its zenith during this time. Most of the leading scientists around the year 1000 were Muslim scientists, including Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, Avicenna, Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis), Ibn Yunus, Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (Kuhi), Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abū al-Wafā' al-Būzjānī, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Al-Muqaddasi, Ali Ibn Isa, and al-Karaji (al-Karkhi), among others.
In particular, Ibn al-Haytham, Avicenna, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, and Abu al-Qasim, who all flourished around the year 1000, are considered to be among the greatest scientists of the Middle Ages.
China
In what is today China, the Song Dynasty remained the world's strongest empire and continued to thrive under Emperor Zhenzong of Song China. By the late 11th century the Song Dynasty had a total population of some 101 million people an average annual iron output of 125,000 tons and had bolstered the enormous Economy of the Song Dynasty with the worlds first known "Banknote" paper printed money.
Europe
Hungary was established in 1000 as a Christian state. In the next centuries, the Kingdom of Hungary became the pre-eminent cultural power in the Central European region.
Events
By place
Africa
Americas
- Leif Ericson lands in North America, setting foot on ''Helluland'', ''Markland'' and ''Vinland''.
- Middle Horizon period ends in the Andes.
- Mississippian culture flourishes in North America.
- Teotihuacan and Mayan cultures collapse in Central America.
- Aztec civilization migrates to Tenochtitlan in Mexico and begins to flourish.
Asia
- Dhaka, Bangladesh, is founded.
Europe
- December 25; Stephen I of Hungary becomes King of Hungary, which is established as a Christian kingdom.
- September 9; Battle of Svolder: King Olaf Tryggvason is defeated by an alliance of his enemies, in this notable naval battle of the Viking Age.
- Sancho III of Navarre becomes King of Aragon and Navarre.
- Sweyn I of Denmark establishes Danish control over part of Norway.
- Oslo, Norway is founded (the exact year is debatable, but the 1,000 year anniversary was held in the year 2000).
- Emperor Otto III makes a pilgrimage from Rome to Aachen and Gniezno (Gnesen), stopping at Regensburg, Meissen, Magdeburg, and Gniezno. The Congress of Gniezno (with Bolesław I Chrobry) is part of his pilgrimage. In Rome, he builds the basilica of San Bartolomeo all'Isola, to host the relics of St. Bartholomew.
- The Château de Goulaine vineyard is founded in France.
- England annexes the Kingdom of Cornwall.
By topic
Art
- Kandariya Mahadeva temple, Khajurah, Madhya Pradesh, India, is built. Chandela dynasty, Early Medieval period (approximate date).
Religion
- The Diocese of Kołobrzeg is founded.
- The archdiocese in Gniezno is founded; the first Archbishop of Gniezno is Radim Gaudentius, from Slavník's dynasty.
- Iceland adopts Christianity as its official religion.
Science and technology
- Scientific achievements in the Arab civilization reach their zenith, with the emergence of the first experimental scientists and the scientific method, which will form the basis of modern science.
- Arab Muslim scientist, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), writes his influential ''Book of Optics''.
- Persian/Muslim scientist, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī publishes his influential ''The Canon of Medicine'' and ''The Book of Healing''.
- Arab Muslim medicine, Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) publishes his influential 30-volume medical encyclopedia the ''Al-Tasrif''.
- Arab Islamic/Muslim mathematician and astronomer, Ibn Yunus, publishes his astronomical treatise ''Al-Zij al-Hakimi al-Kabir'' in Cairo.
- Persian Muslim astronomer and mathematician, Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, invents the astronomical sextant and first states a special case of Fermat's last theorem.
- The Bell foundry is founded in Italy by Pontificia Fonderia Marinelli.
- Gunpowder is invented in China.
- Paper has largely replaced vellum and parchment in Islamic realm, encouraging the proliferation on increasingly elaborate and decorative cursive scripts.
Demographics
- World population: 310,000,000.
Births
- Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1048)
- Qawam al-Daula, ruler of Kerman (d. 1028)
- Yi Yuanji – Chinese Northern Song painter famous for his realistic paintings of animals (d. 1064)
Deaths
- September 9; Olaf I of Norway (killed at the Battle of Svold) (b. 969)
- Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, Islamic astronomy and mathematician
- Abū Sahl al-Qūhī, Islamic science/Persian physicist, mathematician and astronomer (b. 940)
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Arab writer and traveller
- Al-Muqaddasi, Arab geographer and social scientist
- Ælfthryth, Queen of England, second or third wife of Edgar of England.
- Garcia IV of Pamplona
- Tlilcoatzin, Toltec ruler (approximate date)
- Ce Acatl Topiltzin, Toltec ruler (approximate date)
- David III of Tao (murdered by his nobles)
- Huyan Zan, Chinese general
- Hrosvit, Saxon nun