1000 (M) 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.
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 .
- 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
Deaths
See also
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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