1000 To 10091000This Milenium - Military Technology Longbow developes.
c - Bantu people called the Shona build the Great Zimbabwe, which means "Houses of Stone." This grand city became Zimbabwe's capital and trade center. u.c.1300
c - Tenkaminen reigned as Caliph of Ghana. He exported gold, ivory and salt and kept his wealth in gold. He put glass windows into his palace in Kumbi and kept a menagerie of elephants and giraffes.u.c1100
c - China Large, sea-going junks
c - In what is now Arizona Sunset Crater was created by the eruption of a volcano. u.c.1100
c - Large portions of the island fauna of Madagascar, that once included a lemur the size of bear and the ostrich-like Elephant Bird, was eliminated by the Malagash people of Madagascar.
c - status A feudal lord's grave from a cemetery near Kretinga in western Lithuania revealed cremated bones in a tree-trunk, man-sized coffin, nine fibulae, a leather belt with bronze and amber beads, 3 spears and an iron battle-axe, an iron instrument for striking fire, a sickle, an iron key and bronze scales, a saddle and iron bridle bits along with miniature tools and weapons.
c - Yemen in the Hadramawt region a dam burst about this time near the village of Senna and the people of the valley fled. In 1997 researchers using DNA studies found that the Lemba, a Bantu speaking people of southern Africa carry markers distinctive of the cohanim, Jewish priests believed to be descended from Aaron. Lemba oral tradition held that they came to Africa from Senna. Dr. Tudor Parfitt authored "Journey to the Vanished City," a description of his work on the Lemba.
c - status Scientists suspect that the sun was particularly bright for a period of time that is called the Medieval Optimum with global temperatures about 1 to 2 degrees higher than today.
c - North America The Mississippian transformation was marked by the rise of agriculture and the appearance of belligerent chiefdoms. The Calusa Indians of southern Florida avoided the Mississippian transformation and maintained their ancient lifeways based on fishing and collecting.
c - Siberia The Yakut nation, a Turkish-speaking people, wandered north about this time to avoid the Mongols.
c - North Americastatus The Cahokia settlement in Southern Illinois numbered about 30,000.
c - status The whole of East and Central Africa was occupied by the Bantu people. Older inhabitants such as the Hottentots and Bushmen were either absorbed or pushed into less desirable places such as the Kalahari.
c - Early postclassic period of the Maya. u.c.1250
c - Polonnaruwa served as the capital of Sri Lanka. It was a fortified citadel surrounded by Hindu and Buddhist religious complexes. u.c.1300
c - Japan A Buddhist shrine was constructed in Uji. In 1968 the Byodo-In Temple at the foot of the Koolaus Mountains on Oahu, Hawaii, was built as a replica of the 900-year-old shrine. u.c.1100
c - ChinaTechnology Floating compass
c - Mayas in Yucatan, Mexico, make writing paper from tree bark.
c - In Mali the desert village of Araouane, 161 miles north of Timbuktu, was first mentioned about this time. It was a wealthy settlement that flourished off the caravans and drew water from 150-foot wells.u.c.1100
c - The Sinagua Indians, in what is now Arizona, made granaries in the cliffs along the Verde River some 100 miles north of Phoenix.
c - Cambodia Angkor Thom was the capital of the Khmer empire at its apogee during this time. u.c.1400
c - North America The Numic-speaking Shoshone Indians took part in a widespread migration from the Cosos Mountains on the northwestern edge of the Mojave Desert and populated a large portion of the western US.
c - Marrakech was founded. It was the terminus of a trade route running southward to the Niger River and of another running eastward to Cairo. u.c1100
c - ChinaMilitary Technology Gunpowder is invented and is used in warfare.
x - Military Technology The mail shirt which formed the bade armour of a Dark Age warrior is refined and extended to become a knee-length hauberk, sometimes supplemented by leggings and mittens of mail. u.1050
x - China A Confucian revival in China. The scholar Ch'eng I held that the I Ching was a means of inquiry into any possible matter. u.c.1100
x - India The sandstone sculpture "Uma Maheshvara" is a variant of the archetypal couple Shiva and Parvati. u.c.1100
jan 01 - Stephen became the first king of Hungary.
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mar 12 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III. re.List of Popes
oct 09 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" possibly New England. Norse sagas claim that Leif Ericson and a band of 35 men sailed for western lands based on an account by the Viking Bjarni Herjulfsson, who had sighted land after being blown off course. They found a land they called Vinland and built houses but returned to Greenland before the winter.
1002c - Edward the Confessor born, English king r.1042-1066, saint and founder of Westminster Abbey. d.1066
c - Leaf Ericson's brother, Thorvald, arrived in Vinland but was killed by native Indians.A 3-year settlement was begun a few years later when Thorfin Karlsefni established a base with around 100 men and women at the L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
x - Japan Sei Shonagon composes the Pillow Book (Makura no Shoshi) around this time.
jun 06 - German king Henry II the Saint crowned.
jun 21 - Pope Leo IX was born. re.List of PopesHe brought the conflict between Rome and the eastern Church to a head in 1054, ending with the Patriarch of Constantinople being excommunicated and the creation of the Schism.
nov 13 - England Massacre of St Brice's day. English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers.
nov 21 - England Ethelred marries Emma.
1003c - Christianity John XVII then John XVIII become Pope re.List of Popes
may 12 - Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome.
may 12 - Sylvester II, Gerbert van Aurillac, 1st French Pope
1004c - Japan Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote her classic court novel,Genji Monogatari or The Tale of Genji. u.c.1022
x - Japan First year of Kankô.
1005x - England Aelfheah becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
x - Scotland Malcolm II becomes King.
1006may 01 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus.
1008x - status The earliest known water-powered wool-processing plant was operated at Ludi near Milan.
1009x - The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem destroyed by order of Hakim, sixth Fatimid Caliph of Egypt.
x - Lithuania's name Lituae was first mentioned in Quedlinburg's annals.
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