Editing 1000s (decade) (section)

==Science and technology==
* The [[Islamic science|scientific achievements]] of the [[Islamic Golden Age|Islamic civilization]] reach their zenith. Major works from this decade include  [[Ibn al-Haytham]] (Alhacen)'s ''[[Book of Optics]]'', [[Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi]] (Abulcasis)'s 30-volume medical encyclopedia, the ''[[Al-Tasrif]]''.
*Other significant contributions to scientific and mathematical understanding were made by [[Avicenna]], who would later publish influential works on medicine, Persian Muslim polymath and scientist [[Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī|Abu Rayhan al-Biruni]], Arab [[Egypt]]ian [[Islamic mathematics|Muslim mathematician]] and [[Islamic astronomy|astronomer]] [[Ibn Yunus]], Persian Muslim physicist and mathematician [[Abū Sahl al-Qūhī|Abu Sahl al-Quhi]] (Kuhi) and Persian Muslim astronomer and mathematician, [[Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi]].
* The [[Law of sines]] is discovered by [[Islamic mathematics|Muslim mathematicians]].
* [[Bell (instrument)|Bell]] [[foundry]] is founded in [[Italy]].
* [[Gunpowder]] is invented in [[China]].