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Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century

Decades: 950s 960s 970s 980s 990s - 1000s - 1010s 1020s 1030s 1040s 1050s

Years: 997 998 999 1000 1001 - 1002 - 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• November 13 - English king Ethelred gives order to kill all Danes in England.
• Brian Boru rises to power in Ireland, taking the title of High King.
• All-out war breaks out between Byzantine Emperor Basil II and Bulgarian tsar Samuil.
• Henry II succeeds Otto III as king of Germany.
• With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony on Greenland.
• Danegeld is payed.

Births

• June 21 - Pope Leo IX

Deaths

• August 8 - Emir al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba
• January 23 - Otto III, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• Boleslaus III, duke of Bohemia