1008

All you want to know about 1008

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century - 11th century - 12th century
Decades:	970s 980s 990s - 1000s - 1010s 1020s 1030s
Years:	1005 1006 1007 - 1008 - 1009 1010 1011

1008 by topic
Lists of leaders
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments v • d • e

**1008 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1008 MVIII
Ab urbe condita	1761
Armenian calendar	457 ԹՎ ՆԾԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-836 – -835
Berber calendar	1958
Buddhist calendar	1552
Burmese calendar	370
Byzantine calendar	6516 – 6517
Chinese calendar	丁未年十一月二十日 (3644/3704-11-20) — to — 戊申年十二月初二日 (3645/3705-12-2)
Coptic calendar	724 – 725
Ethiopian calendar	1000 – 1001
Hebrew calendar	4768 – 4769
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1063 – 1064
- Shaka Samvat	930 – 931
- Kali Yuga	4109 – 4110
Holocene calendar	11008
Iranian calendar	386 – 387
Islamic calendar	398 – 399
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3341
Thai solar calendar	1551
v • d • e

Events

By Place

Europe

Oldest known mention of the city of Gundelfingen.
Olav Haraldsson, the future king of Norway, lands on Saaremaa Island in Estonia, wins a battle there and forces the inhabitants to pay tribute.
Georgia is unified under King Bagrat III.
Mohammed II succeeds Hisham II as Caliph of Cordoba.

Asia

The Egyptian Fatimid Empire under Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah sends the sea captain Domiyat on a tributary mission to Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, in order to reestablish trade relations between Egypt and China.
Battle of Peshawar: The Turkic Ghaznavid armies defeat a Hindu confederacy.

By Topic

Religion

Olof, king of Sweden, is baptized by Saint Sigfrid.
Bruno of Querfurt and others try to establish a mission among the Prussians.

Births

May 4 — King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
October 12 — Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)
Sugawara no Takasue no musume, Japanese writer
Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester (d. 1095)

Deaths

Emperor Kazan of Japan (b. 968)
Gunnlaugur Ormstunga, Icelandic poet (b. c. 983)
Al-Hamadhani, Persian writer

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