1008

1008 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1008; MVIII
Ab urbe condita	1761
Armenian calendar	457; ԹՎ ՆԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	5758
Balinese saka calendar	929–930
Bengali calendar	415
Berber calendar	1958
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1552
Burmese calendar	370
Byzantine calendar	6516–6517
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat); 3705 or 3498; — to —; 戊申年 (Earth Monkey); 3706 or 3499
Coptic calendar	724–725
Discordian calendar	2174
Ethiopian calendar	1000–1001
Hebrew calendar	4768–4769
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1064–1065
- Shaka Samvat	929–930
- Kali Yuga	4108–4109
Holocene calendar	11008
Igbo calendar	8–9
Iranian calendar	386–387
Islamic calendar	398–399
Japanese calendar	Kankō 5; (寛弘５年)
Javanese calendar	910–911
Julian calendar	1008; MVIII
Korean calendar	3341
Minguo calendar	904 before ROC; 民前904年
Nanakshahi calendar	−460
Seleucid era	1319/1320 AG
Thai solar calendar	1550–1551
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年; (female Fire-Goat); 1134 or 753 or −19; — to —; 阳土猴年; (male Earth-Monkey); 1135 or 754 or −18

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century; 11th century ; 12th century;
Decades:	980s; 990s; 1000s ; 1010s; 1020s;
Years:	1005; 1006; 1007; 1008 ; 1009; 1010; 1011;

Year 1008 (MVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Olaf Haraldsson, future king of Norway, makes raids in the Baltic Sea. He lands on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, wins a battle there, and forces the inhabitants to pay tribute.
Battle at Herdaler: Olaf Haraldsson sails to the southern coast of Finland to plunder, where he and his men are ambushed and defeated in the woods.
Bagrat III adds more lands to his realm, and becomes the first ruler of the Kingdom of Georgia (until 1014).
The oldest known mention is made of the city of Gundelfingen (Southern Germany).
Abkhazia and Iberia are unified into the Kingdom of Georgia.

King Æthelred the Unready orders a new fleet of warships built, organised on a national scale. It is a huge undertaking, but is completed the following year.^[1]

Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah sends a tributary mission to Emperor Zhenzong of the Song dynasty in order to reestablish trade relations between the Fatimid Caliphate and China (approximate date).

November 13 – Kamo Special Festival: The poet Murasaki Shikibu is given her name from a famous court poet, Fujiwara no Kinto; this year she probably starts to write The Diary of Lady Murasaki.
42nd Birthday of Fujiwara no Michinaga, father-in-law of the emperor, is celebrated.

Autumn – Bruno of Querfurt, a missionary bishop, and 18 companions sets out on a mission to spread Christianity among the Prussians.^[2]
Olof Skötkonung, king of Sweden, is baptized in Husaby (Västergötland) by missionary Sigfrid, and makes generous donations on the spot.^[3]

March 17 – Kazan, emperor of Japan (b. 968)
April 7 – Ludolf (or Liudolf), archbishop of Trier
April 10 – Notker of Liège, French bishop (b. 940)
May 25
- Bishi, Japanese imperial princess
- Matilda of Saxony, countess of Flanders
October 6 – Menendo González, Galician nobleman
November 20 – Geoffrey I, duke of Brittany (b. 980)
Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar, Andalusian court official
Clothna mac Aenghusa, Irish poet (approximate date)
Gunnlaugr Ormstunga, Icelandic poet (approximate date)
Gurgen II (Magistros), king of Iberia-Kartli (Georgia)
Ibn Zur'a, Abbasid physician and philosopher (b. 943)
Madudan mac Gadhra Mór, king of Síol Anmchadha
Poppo, Polish missionary bishop (approximate date)
Raymond III, French nobleman (approximate date)
Rotbold I (or Rotbaud), French nobleman
Sarolt, Grand Princess of Hungary (b. 950)

^ Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England, pp. 381–384. The Oxford History of England. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 019-280-1392.
^ According to the "Annals of Magdeburg" (c. 1170) and some other sources.
^ Quoted in Mats G. Larsson, Götarnas riken: Upptäcktsfärder till Sveriges enande. Stockholm: Atlantis, 2002, p. 185.

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