was a Leap Year Starting On Monday (click on link for calendar). It is the year that, when written in Roman Numerals , has the equal least digits (1). It is equal to 1AD (I), 5AD (V), 10AD (X), 50AD (L), 100AD (C) and 500AD (D). This record will not be equalled again.
- 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 .
- Leif Ericson lands in North America , calling it Vinland .
- Sweyn I establishes Danish control over part of Norway .
- Dhaka , Bangladesh , is founded.
- , 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
- 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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