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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 10th century · 11th century · 12th century |
| Decades: | 970s · 980s · 990s · 1000s · 1010s · 1020s · 1030s |
| Years: | 999 · 1000 · 1001 · 1002 · 1003 · 1004 · 1005 |
| 1002 by topic | |
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| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1002 MII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1755 |
| Armenian calendar | 451 ԹՎ ՆԾԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5752 |
| Bengali calendar | 409 |
| Berber calendar | 1952 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1546 |
| Burmese calendar | 364 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6510–6511 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 3698 or 3638 — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3699 or 3639 |
| Coptic calendar | 718–719 |
| Discordian calendar | 2168 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 994–995 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4762–4763 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1058–1059 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 923–924 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4102–4103 |
| Holocene calendar | 11002 |
| Igbo calendar | 2–3 |
| Iranian calendar | 380–381 |
| Islamic calendar | 392–393 |
| Japanese calendar | Chōhō 4 (長保４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 904–905 |
| Julian calendar | 1002 MII |
| Korean calendar | 3335 |
| Minguo calendar | 910 before ROC 民前910年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −466 |
| Seleucid era | 1313/1314 AG |
| Thai solar calendar | 1544–1545 |
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Year 1002 (MII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Asia
- King Suryavarman I defeated the armies of Udayadityavarman I, eventually becoming ruler of the Khmer Empire
- December – Khalaf I of Sistan surrenders to Ghaznavids in Taq.
Europe
- January 8 – Wulfsige III, Bishop of Sherborne, dies and is succeeded by Æthelric.
- January 23 – Henry II succeeds Otto III as King of Germany.
- June – Frederick is sent as an imperial legate to the Synod of Pöhlde to mediate between the claims of Bishop Bernard of Hildesheim, and Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz, concerning the control of Gandersheim Abbey.
- July – Battle of Calatañazor: Christian armies of Castille led by Count Sancho García and León led by Alfonso V defeat invading Muslim forces under Almanzor.
- August 8 – Abd al-Malik succeeds Almanzor, chief minister of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, Spain
- November 13 – St. Brice's Day massacre: English king Æthelred the Unready orders all Danes in England killed.
- November – Frederick is elected Archbishop of Ravenna.
- Vladivoj succeeds Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia.
- Otto of Worms withdraws his nomination for the title of Holy Roman Emperor and receives the Duchy of Carinthia in return.
- King Æthelred the Unready of England marries (as his second wife) Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy.
- Brian Boru, King of Leinster and Munster, becomes High King of Ireland, breaking the Uí Néill monopoly on the title. Not satisfied with the submission of Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, Brian Boru makes an expedition to the north to take hostages from the northern states.
- John IV of Naples is probably released from German captivity by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor.
- With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony in Greenland.
- Danegeld is paid by Æthelred the Unready to prevent Viking raids against England.
Sub-Saharan Africa
- Rafael of Makuria constructs a red brick building in Old Dongola.
Births
- June 21 – Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
- Adolf II of Lotharingia (d. 1041)
- Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Sunni Muslim scholar and historian (d. 1071)
- George I of Georgia (possible date; d. 1027)
- Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet of the Song dynasty (d. 1060)
Deaths
- January – Sa'id al-Dawla, Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, poisoned
- January 23 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
- April 30 – Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen, assassinated
- May 6 – Ealdwulf, Archbishop of York, Abbot of Peterborough and Bishop of Worcester
- August 8 – Almanzor, chief minister of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, Spain
- October 15 – Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
- November 13 – St. Brice's Day massacre in England
- Godfrey I, Count of Verdun
- Rogneda of Polotsk, wife of Vladimir I of Kiev before his conversion to Christianity
- Tahir, son of Khalaf I
- Udayadityavarman I of Khmer Empire
- Possible date
- John the Iberian, Georgian saint
- Sancho Ramírez of Viguera
References
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