Editing AD 1000 (section)

== Events ==

===Japan===
*Palace Scandal: Princess Consort Yasuko has an affair. Michinaga (her half-brother) investigates it secretly and finds out the truth about her pregnancy. Yasuko cries and repents. Yasuko leaves the palace under the patronage of Empress Dowager Senshi and Michinaga (moved to his residence).{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}
*[[Murasaki Shikibu]] starts to write ''[[The Tale of Genji]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Tale of Genji {{!}} Asia for Educators {{!}} Columbia University |url=https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_600ce_genji.htm |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=afe.easia.columbia.edu}}</ref>
*[[Ichimonjiya Wasuke]], the oldest surviving [[wagashi]] store, is established as a teahouse adjacent to [[Imamiya Shrine]].
*[[January 10]]: Death of Empress Dowager Masako (empress consort of the late Emperor Reizei){{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}
*[[April 8]]: Fujiwara no Shoshi is promoted to Empress (Chugu), while there is another empress, Fujiwara no Teishi (kogo) - this is the first time that there are two empresses<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fujiwara no Teishi • . A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史 |url=https://historyofjapan.co.uk/wiki/fujiwara-no-teishi/ |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=. A History . . of Japan . 日本歴史 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

===Americas===
*  The [[Taíno]] have become the dominant culture of modern day [[Puerto Rico]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-19 |title=Ancient genome study identifies traces of indigenous “Taíno” in present-day Caribbean populations |url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ancient-genome-study-identifies-traces-of-indigenous-taino-in-present-day-caribbean-populations |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=University of Cambridge |language=en}}</ref>

=== Christendom ===
{{Main|Early Middle Ages#Europe in 1000}}
{{Further|Christianity in the Middle Ages}}
[[File:Europe 1000.jpg|thumb|270px|upright|[[Western Europe]], the [[Holy Roman Empire]], [[Kievan Rus']], and the [[Byzantine Empire]] in the [[Middle Ages]] (year 1000)]]

* In [[continental Europe]], the [[Holy Roman Empire]] established itself as the most powerful state. The Holy Roman Emperor [[Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto III]] made a pilgrimage from [[Rome]] to [[Aachen]] and [[Gniezno]] ([[Gnesen]]), stopping at [[Regensburg]], [[Meissen]], [[Magdeburg]], and Gniezno. The [[Congress of Gniezno]] (with [[Bolesław I the Brave]]) was part of his [[Christian pilgrimage|pilgrimage]]. In Rome, he built the basilica of [[San Bartolomeo all'Isola]], to host the relics of [[Bartholomew the Apostle|St. Bartholomew]].
* In the [[Kingdom of France]], [[Robert II of France|Robert II]], the son of [[Hugh Capet]], was the first King of the [[House of Capet|Capetian royal dynasty]]. 
* The [[Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty]] was engaged in a [[Byzantine conquest of Bulgaria|long and hard war]] with the [[First Bulgarian Empire]]. The Byzantine generals, [[Theodorokanos]] and [[Nikephoros Xiphias]] captured the former Bulgarian capitals of [[Pliska]] and [[Great Preslav]], along with [[Little Preslav]], extending Byzantine control over the northeastern portion of the Bulgarian state ([[Mysia]] and [[Scythia Minor]]). At the same time, Byzantium was instrumental in the [[Christianization of Kievan Rus']] and of other medieval confederations of Slavic states.
* In [[Great Britain]], a unified [[Kingdom of England]] had developed out of the various [[Anglo-Saxon kingdoms]].
* In [[Scandinavia]], [[Christianization of Scandinavia|Christianization]] was in its early stages, with the [[Althing]] of the [[Icelandic Commonwealth]] embracing Christianity in the year 1000. On [[September 9]], the [[Monarchy of Norway|King of Norway]], [[Olaf Tryggvason]], was defeated by the Scandinavian kingdoms of [[Kingdom of Denmark (Middle Ages)|Denmark]] and [[Kingdom of Sweden (Middle Ages)|Sweden]] in the [[Battle of Svolder]]. [[Sweyn Forkbeard]] established Danish control over part of [[Norway]]. The city of [[Oslo]] was founded in Norway (the exact year is debatable, but the 1,000 year anniversary was held in the year [[2000]]). It is known that in or around this year, [[Norsemen|Norse]] explorer [[Leif Erikson]] became [[Norse colonization of North America|the first European to land in the Americas]], at [[L'Anse aux Meadows]] in modern-day [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]].
* The [[History of the papacy#Influence of powerful Roman families (904–1048)|papacy]] during this time was in a period of decline, in retrospect known as the ''[[saeculum obscurum]]'' ("Dark Age") or "pornocracy" ("rule of harlots"), a state of affairs that would result in the [[East–West Schism|Great Schism]] between [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]] and [[Eastern Orthodoxy]] later in the 11th century.
* The [[Kingdom of Hungary]] was established in 1000 as a Christian state. In the next centuries, the Kingdom of Hungary became the pre-eminent cultural power in the Central European region. On [[December 25]], [[Stephen I of Hungary|Stephen I]] was crowned as the first King of Hungary in [[Esztergom]].
* [[Sancho III of Pamplona]] became King of [[List of Aragonese monarchs|Aragon]] and [[List of Navarrese monarchs|Navarre]]. The [[Reconquista]] was gaining some ground, but the southern Iberian peninsula would still be dominated by Islam for centuries to come; [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]]  was the world's largest city at this time, with 450,000 inhabitants.
* In the [[Kingdom of Croatia (925–1102)|Kingdom of Croatia]] the army of the [[Republic of Venice]] led by Doge [[Pietro II Orseolo]] [[Siege of Lastovo|conquered the island of Lastovo]].
* The [[Château de Goulaine]] [[vineyard]] was founded in [[Kingdom of France|France]]. 
* The [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gniezno|archdiocese]] in [[Gniezno]] was founded; the first [[List of archbishops of Gniezno and primates of Poland|archbishop]] was [[Radim Gaudentius]], from [[Slavník dynasty]], and dioceses in [[Kołobrzeg]], [[Kraków]] and [[Wrocław]]. 
* The [[Bell foundry]] was founded in [[Italy]] by [[Pontificia Fonderia Marinelli]].

=== Islamic world ===
The [[Muslim world]] was in its [[Islamic Golden Age|Golden Age]]; still organised in [[caliphate]]s, it continued to be dominated by the [[Abbasid Caliphate]], with the [[Caliphate of Córdoba]] to the west, the [[Fatimid Caliphate]] in North Africa, and experienced ongoing [[Early Muslim conquests|campaigns]] [[Islamization of the Sudan region|in Africa]] and [[Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent|in India]]. At the time, [[History of Iran|Persia]] was in a period of instability, with various polities seceding from  Abbasid rule, among whom the [[Ghaznavids]] would emerge as the most powerful.

The Islamic world was reaching the peak of its historical [[Science in the medieval Islamic world|scientific achievements]]. Important scholars and scientists who flourished in AD 1000 include [[Al-Zahrawi]] (Abcasis), [[Ibn Yunus]] (publishes his astronomical treatise ''Al-Zij al-Hakimi al-Kabir'' in [[Cairo]] in c. 1000), [[Abu Sahl al-Quhi]] (Kuhi), [[Abu-Mahmud Khujandi]], [[Abu Nasr Mansur]], [[Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani]], [[Ahmad ibn Fadlan]], [[Ali ibn Isa al-Asturlabi|Ali Ibn Isa]], [[Al-Karaji]] (al-Karkhi), [[Ibn al-Haytham]] (''[[Book of Optics]]''), [[Avicenna]], [[Averroes]], and [[Al-Biruni]].

By this time, the [[Turkic migration]] from the [[Eurasian Steppe]] had reached Eastern Europe, and most of the [[Turkic peoples|Turkic tribes]] ([[Khazars]], [[Bulgars]], [[Pechenegs]] etc.) had been [[Spread of Islam|Islamized]].

=== Babylon abandoned ===
[[Babylon]] was abandoned around this year.