1002

::''For the number, see 1002 (number).''
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Contents

Events

By Place

Europe

Byzantine Empire

Births

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ November 13 — English king Ethelred gives order to kill all Danes in England, leading to the St. Brice's Day Massacre.

★ Brian Boru rises to power in Ireland, taking the title of High King.

★ Henry II succeeds Otto III as king of Germany.

★ With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony in Greenland.

★ Danegeld is paid.

Byzantine Empire

★ All-out war breaks out between Byzantine Emperor Basil II and Bulgarian tsar Samuil.

Births

★ June 21 — Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)

★ Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty (d. 1060)

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, Spain

★ October 15 — Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)