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1008 by topic |
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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 |
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Year 1008 (MVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]By place
[edit]Europe
[edit]- 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.
- The oldest known mention is made of the city of Gundelfingen (Southern Germany).
- Unification of the Georgian realm.
England
[edit]- 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]
Arabian Empire
[edit]- 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).
Japan
[edit]- 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.
By topic
[edit]Religion
[edit]- 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]
Births
[edit]- May 4 – Henry I, king of France (d. 1060)
- October 12 – Atsuhira, future Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)
- Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya (d. 1062)
- Anselm of Liège, French chronicler and historian
- Di Qing, general of the Song Dynasty (d. 1057)
- Gothelo II (or Gozelo), duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 1046)
- Sugawara no Takasue, Japanese writer (approximate date)
- Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (approximate date)
Deaths
[edit]- 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)
References
[edit]- ^ 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.