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Events
By Place
Asia
★
January 1 —
Kievan Rus' adopts the
Julian calendar.
Asia
★ Construction of the
Al-Hakim Mosque begins in
Cairo.
Europe
★ The city of
Lund,
Sweden (then
Denmark) was founded.
By Topic
Religion
★ The
Pax Ecclesiae, an edict by the church in southern
France attempting to outlaw acts of war against non-combatants and the clergy, is promulgated.
Births
★
Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (approximate)
★
Edmund II of England, (approximate)
★
Mieszko II of Poland, king of
Poland from
1025 to
1031, duke from
1032 to
1034
★
Yorimichi, regent to the Japanese emperor from
1017 to
1020 and from
1020 to
1068
★
Johannes Skotus, Bishop of
Mecklenburg (approximate)
★
Bi Sheng,
Song Dynasty Chinese inventor of
movable type printing
Deaths
★
Kaneie, regent to the Japanese emperor from
986 to 990
★
Al-Uqlidisi, Middle East mathematician
★
Dunash ben Labrat