| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 10th century - 11th century - 12th century |
| Decades: | 970s 980s 990s - 1000s - 1010s 1020s 1030s |
| Years: | 1005 1006 1007 - 1008 - 1009 1010 1011 |
| 1008 by topic | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births - Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1008 MVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1761 |
| Armenian calendar | 457 ԹՎ ՆԾԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -836 – -835 |
| Berber calendar | 1958 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1552 |
| Burmese calendar | 370 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6516 – 6517 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁未年十一月二十日 (3644/3704-11-20) — to —
戊申年十二月初二日(3645/3705-12-2) |
| Coptic calendar | 724 – 725 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1000 – 1001 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4768 – 4769 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1063 – 1064 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 930 – 931 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4109 – 4110 |
| Holocene calendar | 11008 |
| Iranian calendar | 386 – 387 |
| Islamic calendar | 398 – 399 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3341 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1551 |
Events
By Place
Europe
- Oldest known mention of the city of Gundelfingen.
- Olav Haraldsson, the future king of Norway, lands on Saaremaa Island in Estonia, wins a battle there and forces the inhabitants to pay tribute.
- Georgia is unified under King Bagrat III.
- Mohammed II succeeds Hisham II as Caliph of Cordoba.
Asia
- The Egyptian Fatimid Empire under Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah sends the sea captain Domiyat on a tributary mission to Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, in order to reestablish trade relations between Egypt and China.
- Battle of Peshawar: The Turkic Ghaznavid armies defeat a Hindu confederacy.
By Topic
Religion
- Olof, king of Sweden, is baptized by Saint Sigfrid.
- Bruno of Querfurt and others try to establish a mission among the Prussians.
Births
- May 4 — King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
- October 12 — Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)
- Sugawara no Takasue no musume, Japanese writer
- Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester (d. 1095)
Deaths
- Emperor Kazan of Japan (b. 968)
- Gunnlaugur Ormstunga, Icelandic poet (b. c. 983)
- Al-Hamadhani, Persian writer
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