1007
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Year 1007 (MVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
[edit]By place
[edit]England
[edit]- King Æthelred the Unready pays the Danish Vikings a sum of 36,000 pounds of silver (Danegeld) to stop further invasions.<ref>John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, p. 118. Template:ISBN.</ref>
Ireland
[edit]- The Book of Kells is stolen from the Abbey of Kells.
Japan
[edit]- 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
[edit]Religion
[edit]- 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).<ref name="BoltonHutton2000">Template:Cite book</ref>
Births
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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