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- Alternate uses, see Number 1000.\n{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
997 998 999 - 1000 - 1001 1002 1003\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
970s 980s 990s - 1000s - 1010s 1020s 1030s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
9th century - 10th century - 11th century\n|}\n
Events
\n*World Population 300 million. \n*Gunpowder invented in China.\n*Scandinavia, Iceland and Hungary Christianized.\n*Stephen I becomes King of Hungary.\n*Sancho III of Navarre becomes King Aragon, Navarre, and Castile.\n*Leif Ericson lands in North America, calling it Vinland. \n*Sweyn I establishes Danish control over part of Norway.\n*Dhaka, Bangladesh, is founded.\n*The Diocese of Kolobrzeg is founded. \n* 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.
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Births
\n* Michael Cerularius,
Patriarch of Constantinople.\n*
Constantine IX,
Byzantine Emperor.
Deaths
\n* Olaf I of Norway, killed at the
Battle of Svold.
Related topics
\n*Millenarianism
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