Editing 1000s (decade)

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The '''1000s''' was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1000, and ended on December 31, 1009.

{{Events by year for decade|100}}

==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]].

==Significant people==
* [[Ibn Yunus|Abd al-Rahman Ibn Yunus]]
* [[Al-Qadir]] caliph of Baghdad
* [[Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi]] (Abulcasis)
* [[Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi]]
* [[Abu Nasr Mansur]]
* [[Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī|Abu Rayhan al-Biruni]]
* [[Ibn al-Haytham|Alhacen]] (Ibn al-Haytham)
* [[Avicenna]] (Ibn Sina)
* [[Basil II]]
* [[Boleslaus I of Poland]]
* [[Brian Boru]]
* [[Bruno of Querfurt]]
* [[Robert II of France]]
* [[Robert Guiscard]]
* [[Roger I of Sicily]]
* [[Sancho III of Navarre]]
* [[Stephen I of Hungary]]
* [[Sweyn I of Denmark]]
* [[Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria]]

{{Births and deaths by year for decade|100}}

==References==
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