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| Years: 999 1000 1001 - 1002 - 1003 1004 1005 | |
| Decades: 970s 980s 990s - 1000s - 1010s 1020s 1030s | |
| Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century 1002 state leaders | |
Events
- November 13 - English king Ethelred gives order to kill all Danes in England.
- Brian Boru rises to power in Ireland, taking the title of High King.
- All-out war breaks out between Byzantine Emperor Basil II and Bulgarian tsar Samuil.
- Henry II succeeds Otto III as king of Germany.
- With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony on Greenland.
- Danegeld is paid.
Births
- June 21 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
Deaths
- January 23 - Otto III, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 980)
- August 8 - Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba
- October 15 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
- Duke Boleslaus III of Bohemia
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