1010
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| Centuries: | 10th century - 11th century - 12th century |
| Decades: | 980s 990s 1000s - 1010s - 1020s 1030s 1040s |
| Years: | 1007 1008 1009 - 1010 - 1011 1012 1013 |
| 1010 by topic | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| State leaders - Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments - Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1010 MX |
| Ab urbe condita | 1763 |
| Armenian calendar | 459 ԹՎ ՆԾԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -834 – -833 |
| Berber calendar | 1960 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1554 |
| Burmese calendar | 372 |
| Chinese calendar | 3646/3706-12-14 (己酉年十二月十四日) — to —
3647/3707-11-23(庚戌年十一月廿三日) |
| Coptic calendar | 726 – 727 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1002 – 1003 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4770 – 4771 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1065 – 1066 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 932 – 933 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4111 – 4112 |
| Holocene calendar | 11010 |
| Iranian calendar | 388 – 389 |
| Islamic calendar | 400 – 401 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 1670 (皇紀1670年) |
| Korean calendar | 3343 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1553 |
This article is about the year 1010. For other uses, see 1010 (disambiguation).
[edit] Events
[edit] By Place
[edit] Europe
- The city of Yaroslavl is said to have been founded.
[edit] Asia
- The Ly Dynasty is established in Vietnam (or 1009) and moves the capital to Hanoi.
- Persian poet Ferdowsi finishes writing The Shahnameh (Book of Kings).
- Hisham II is restored as Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, succeeding Suleiman II.
- The Goryeo king is unseated in a revolt, resulting in an invasion by the Liao Dynasty and the burning of the Korean capital Kaekyong in the Second Goryeo-Khitan War.
- Song Zhun of Song Dynasty China completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, an enormous atlas of China that is written and illustrated in 1,556 chapters, showing maps of each region, city, town, and village. The atlas took 39 years to complete.
[edit] Americas
- Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America (approximate date).
[edit] Africa
- The river Nile freezes.
[edit] By Topic
[edit] Literature
- Lady Murasaki writes The Tale of Genji in Japanese (approximate date).
- Beowulf is written anonymously(approximate date).
[edit] Technology
- Eilmer of Malmesbury attempts flight in a glider of his own construction.
[edit] Births
- May 30 — Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
- Benno, bishop of Meissen (d. 1106)
- King Bermudo III of León (d. 1037)
- Ali Ahmad Nasawi, (d. 1075)
- Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1041)
- Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg (d. 1088)
- Otto of Savoy (d. 1060)
- Adalbero of Würzburg, Bishop of Würzburg and Count of Lambach-Wels (d. 1111)
[edit] Deaths
- John Curcuas, Byzantine catepan of Italy
- Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot
- Aimoin, French monk and chronicler
