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Contents

Events

By Place

Asia

Americas

Africa

By Topic

Technology

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Asia

★ The Ly Dynasty in Vietnam is established (or in 1009) and moved the Vietnam's capital to Hanoi, the founding year of Hanoi.

★ Persian poet Ferdowsi finishes writing ''The Shahnameh'' (Book of Kings).

★ Umayyad caliph of Cordoba Hisham II is restored, succeeding Suleiman II.

★ Goryeo king 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.

★ City of Yaroslavl said to have been founded.

★ Song Zhun of Song Dynasty China completed the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun in this year, an enormous atlas of China that was written and illustrated in 1556 chapters showing maps of each region, city, town, and village. The atlas took 39 years to complete.

Americas

★ Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America (approximate date).

Africa

★ The river Nile freezes.

By Topic

Technology

★ Eilmer of Malmesbury attempts flight in a glider of his own construction.

Births

★ May 30 — Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)

★ Benno, bishop of Meissen (d.1106)

★ Bermudo III of León, king of León (d. 1037)

★ Ali Ahmad Nasawi, (d. 1075)

★ Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1041)

★ Gebhard of Salzburg, Archbishop of Salzburg (d. 1088)

★ Otto of Savoy (d. 1060)

★ Adalbero of Würzburg, Bishop of Würzburg and Count of Lambach-Wels (d. 1111)

Deaths

★ John Curcuas, Byzantine catepan of Italy

★ Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot

★ Aimoin, French monk and chronicler