1001

This article is about the year 1001. For the number (and other uses), see 1001 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	970s  980s  990s  – 1000s –  1010s  1020s  1030s
Years:	998 999 1000 – 1001 – 1002 1003 1004

1001 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1001 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1001 MI
Ab urbe condita	1754
Armenian calendar	450 ԹՎ ՆԾ
Assyrian calendar	5751
Bahá'í calendar	-843–-842
Bengali calendar	408
Berber calendar	1951
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1545
Burmese calendar	363
Byzantine calendar	6509–6510
Chinese calendar	庚子年十二月初四日 (3637/3697-12-4) — to — 辛丑年十二月十四日 (3638/3698-12-14)
Coptic calendar	717–718
Ethiopian calendar	993–994
Hebrew calendar	4761–4762
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1057–1058
- Shaka Samvat	923–924
- Kali Yuga	4102–4103
Holocene calendar	11001
Iranian calendar	379–380
Islamic calendar	391–392
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3334
Minguo calendar	911 before ROC 民前911年
Thai solar calendar	1544

Year 1001 (MI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. It is the first year of the 11th century and the 2nd millennium.

Events

By place

Europe

• February 6 – After leading the revolt against Emperor Otto III and expelling the Crescentii, Gregory I, Count of Tusculum is named "Head of the Republic"
• July 31 – Emperor Otto III confirms possessions of Ulric Manfred II of Turin and grants him privileges.
• July – Sergius II becomes Patriarch of Constantinople
• Byzantine Emperor Basil II attempts to reconquer Bulgaria.
• Robert II, King of France marries for the third time, with Constance Taillefer d'Arles.
• Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor has Charlemagne's vault opened (see Aachen Cathedral).
• The First Battle of Alton: Danish invaders defeat the English.
• Battle of Pinhoe: Vikings defeat Anglo-Saxons in Devon.
• Boleslaw I of Poland begins ruling parts of Slovakia
• Vseslav Izyaslavich of Polotsk begins ruling Polotsk.
• Werner I, Bishop of Strasbourg begins ruling Archbishopric of Strasbourg.
• Second voyage of Ermengol I of Urgell to Rome.
• Þorgeirr Ljósvetningagoði ends being a lawspeaker in Iceland's Althing.
• Ælfgar, bishop of Elmham, is consecrated.
• Æthelric, bishop of Shepborne, is consecrated (other date is 1002).
• Æthelred is a bishop of Cornwall and dies shortly after that.
• Founding of Lloret de Mar, Catalonian town.
• First reference to Khotyn, Ukrainian town and to Nyalka, Hungarian village, as to Chimudi.

Asia

• Baitoushan volcano on what would be the Chinese-Korean border, erupts with a force of 6.5, the fourth largest Holocene blast (approximate date).
• Tao/Tayk region is annexed by the Byzantines as the theme of Iberia
• Mahmud of Ghazni, Muslim leader of Ghazni, begins a series of raids into Northern India. He will finish his conquest in 1027 with the destruction of Somnath.
• Jayapala suffers defeat from Ghaznavid Empire near Peshawar.
• Rebellion Cửu Long in Thanh Hoa province
• Khmer King Jayavarman V is succeeded by Udayadityavarman I and/or Suryavarman I.
• Construction begins on the Liaodi Pagoda, the tallest pagoda in Chinese history (completed in 1055).
• The Buddhist ruler of Butuan in the Philippines (P’u-tuan in the Sung Dynasty records), Sari Bata Shaja, makes the first tributary mission to China.
• Oqropiri (Ioane I), Svimeon III and Melkisedek I are Catholicoi of Iberia within one year.

Africa

• Khazrun ben Falful from Maghrawa family Banu Khazrun begins ruling Tripoli.
• Al-Muizz begins ruling Morocco.

North America

• Vikings, led by Leif Eriksson, establish small settlements in and around Vinland in North America (approximate date).

By topic

Religion

• King Edward the Martyr of England is canonized.
• A tomb of saint Ivo (possibly) is uncovered in Huntingdonshire.

Births

• Princess Bishi of Japan (d. 1008)
• Godwin, Earl of Wessex (d. 1053)
• Herluin de Conteville, Norman nobleman (d. 1087)
• Ingegerd Olofsdotter, daughter of Olof Skötkonung (d. 1049)

Deaths

• December 21 – Hugh of Tuscany, margrave of Tuscany (b. c. 950)
• Alawich II, Bishop of Strasbourg
• Athelstan, Bishop of Elmham
• Conrad of Ivrea, margrave of Ivrea
• Đinh Phế Đế, the second and the last king of Đinh dynasty
• Fujiwara no Sanenobu, son of Fujiwara no Tamemitsu (b. 964)
• Empress Fujiwara no Teishi of Japan (b. 977)
• Hrosvit, Saxon nun and poet
• Husan ud-Dawlah al-Muqallad, Uqailid Emir of Mosul
• Izyaslav Vladimirovich of Polotsk
• Jayapala, Emperor of Shahiya dinasty
• Jayavarman V, King of the Khmer Empire
• Saint Rainbold (Rannold)
• Saint Theobald (b. 927)
• Wang Yucheng, Chinese poet (b. 954)
• Ziri ibn Atiyya, Emir of Morocco, eventual effects of stab wounds