1000

This article is about the year 1000. For the number, see 1000 (number).

1000 (M) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar. In the proleptic Gregorian calendar, it was an exceptional common year starting on Wednesday. It was the last year of the 1st millennium and 10th century.

1000 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1000 M
Ab urbe condita	1753
Armenian calendar	449 ԹՎ ՆԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	5750
Balinese saka calendar	921–922
Bengali calendar	407
Berber calendar	1950
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1544
Burmese calendar	362
Byzantine calendar	6508–6509
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3696 or 3636     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3697 or 3637
Coptic calendar	716–717
Discordian calendar	2166
Ethiopian calendar	992–993
Hebrew calendar	4760–4761
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1056–1057
- Shaka Samvat	921–922
- Kali Yuga	4100–4101
Holocene calendar	11000
Igbo calendar	0–1
Iranian calendar	378–379
Islamic calendar	390–391
Japanese calendar	Chōhō 2 (長保２年)
Javanese calendar	901–902
Julian calendar	1000 M
Korean calendar	3333
Minguo calendar	912 before ROC 民前912年
Nanakshahi calendar	−468
Seleucid era	1311/1312 AG
Thai solar calendar	1542–1543
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 1126 or 745 or −27     — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) 1127 or 746 or −26

It is one of the only seven years to use just one Roman numeral. The seven are 1 AD (I), 5 AD (V), 10 AD (X), 50 AD (L), 100 AD (C), 500 AD (D), and 1000 AD (M).

Events

• Leif Ericson becomes the first European to visit America
• Gunpowder is invented in China.
• Dhaka, Bangladesh, is started.

Births

• July 5 – Robert I, Duke of Normandy, French nobleman; father to William the Conqueror (died 1035)
• King Stephen I of Hungary, Hungarian royal (died 1038)
• Pope Clement II (died 1045)
• Pope Damasus II (died 1047)
• Pope Sylvester IX (died 1049)
• Saint Herfast, French bishop; first Lord Chancellor of England (died 1085)