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Years: 997 998 999 - 1000 - 1001 1002 1003
Decades: 970s 980s 990s - 1000s - 1010s 1020s 1030s
Centuries: 9th century - 10th century - 11th century 1000 (number)

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1 Events

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 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.