1007

This article is about the year 1007. For the car, see Peugeot 1007. For other uses, see 1007 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	980s 990s 1000s 1010s 1020s
Years:	1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010

1007 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1007 MVII
Ab urbe condita	1760
Armenian calendar	456 ԹՎ ՆԾԶ
Assyrian calendar	5757
Balinese saka calendar	928–929
Bengali calendar	413–414
Berber calendar	1957
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1551
Burmese calendar	369
Byzantine calendar	6515–6516
Chinese calendar	丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3704 or 3497     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3705 or 3498
Coptic calendar	723–724
Discordian calendar	2173
Ethiopian calendar	999–1000
Hebrew calendar	4767–4768
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1063–1064
- Shaka Samvat	928–929
- Kali Yuga	4107–4108
Holocene calendar	11007
Igbo calendar	7–8
Iranian calendar	385–386
Islamic calendar	397–398
Japanese calendar	Kankō 4 (寛弘４年)
Javanese calendar	909–910
Julian calendar	1007 MVII
Korean calendar	3340
Minguo calendar	905 before ROC 民前905年
Nanakshahi calendar	−461
Seleucid era	1318/1319 AG
Thai solar calendar	1549–1550
Tibetan calendar	阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1133 or 752 or −20     — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1134 or 753 or −19

Founding of the Archdiocese of Bamberg

Year 1007 (MVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

England

• King Æthelred the Unready pays the Danish Vikings a sum of 36,000 pounds of silver (Danegeld) to stop further invasions.^[1]

Ireland

• The Book of Kells is stolen from the Abbey of Kells.

Japan

• January 1 (New Year’s Day) – Imperial Princess Shushi is granted the title Ippon Shinno (first rank princess).
• January 29 – Ranking ceremony of Murasaki Shikibu – as a renowned writer and lady-in-waiting, tutor of Empress Shōshi, she is elevated to the highest position in the palace below the empress.
• April – Imperial Prince Tomohira receives the title nihon (second rank prince).

By topic

Religion

• November 1 – King Henry II of Germany founds the Diocese of Bamberg during a synod held in Frankfurt.
• Ælfheah of Canterbury travels to Rome to receive his pallium – symbol of his status as an archbishop – from Pope John XVIII.
• The Keraites, a Turco-Mongolian tribe, are converted to Nestorianism (a sect of Christianity).^[2]

Births

• Emeric, Hungarian prince and co-heir (approximate date)
• Gervais de Château-du-Loir, French nobleman (d. 1067)
• Giselbert, count of Luxembourg (approximate date)
• Hugh Magnus (Hugues le Grand), king of France (d. 1025)
• Ibn Sidah, Andalusian linguist and lexicographer (d. 1066)
• Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)
• Maitripada, Indian Buddhist philosopher (d. 1085)
• Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and poet (d. 1072)
• Peter Damian, cardinal-bishop of Ostia (d. 1073)
• Welf III, duke of Carinthia (approximate date)

Deaths

• February 27 – Ælfwaru, English noblewoman
• March 20 – Abu Rakwa, Andalusian Umayyad prince
• July 21 – Gisela of Burgundy, duchess of Bavaria
• October 31 – Heriger, abbot of Lobbes (Belgium)
• Attilanus, bishop of Zamora (Spain) (b. 937)
• Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, Persian poet (b. 969)
• Guo, empress of the Song Dynasty (b. 975)
• Manjutakin, Fatimid general and governor
• Maslama al-Majriti, Andalusian chemist
• Pelayo Rodríguez, count (comes) of León
• Sebestyén, archbishop of Esztergom
• Urraca Fernández, Galician queen

References

1. John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, p. 118. ISBN 978-0-140-51328-8.
2. Kingsley Bolton; Christopher Hutton (2000). Triad Societies: Western Accounts of the History, Sociology and Linguistics of Chinese Secret Societies. ISBN 978-0-415-24397-1.