1008

1008 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1008 MVIII
Ab urbe condita	1761
Armenian calendar	457 ԹՎ ՆԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	5758
Balinese saka calendar	929–930
Bengali calendar	414–415
Berber calendar	1958
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1552
Burmese calendar	370
Byzantine calendar	6516–6517
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3705 or 3498     — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3706 or 3499
Coptic calendar	724–725
Discordian calendar	2174
Ethiopian calendar	1000–1001
Hebrew calendar	4768–4769
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1064–1065
- Shaka Samvat	929–930
- Kali Yuga	4108–4109
Holocene calendar	11008
Igbo calendar	8–9
Iranian calendar	386–387
Islamic calendar	398–399
Japanese calendar	Kankō 5 (寛弘５年)
Javanese calendar	910–911
Julian calendar	1008 MVIII
Korean calendar	3341
Minguo calendar	904 before ROC 民前904年
Nanakshahi calendar	−460
Seleucid era	1319/1320 AG
Thai solar calendar	1550–1551
Tibetan calendar	阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 1134 or 753 or −19     — to — 阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 1135 or 754 or −18

Coin of Olof Skötkonung (c. 980–1022)

Year 1008 (MVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Europe

• Olaf Haraldsson, future king of Norway, makes raids in the Baltic Sea. He lands on the Estonian island of Saaremaa, wins a battle there, and forces the inhabitants to pay tribute.
• Battle at Herdaler: Olaf Haraldsson sails to the southern coast of Finland to plunder, where he and his men are ambushed and defeated in the woods.
• The oldest known mention is made of the city of Gundelfingen (Southern Germany).
• Unification of the Georgian realm.

England

• King Æthelred the Unready orders a new fleet of warships built, organised on a national scale. It is a huge undertaking, but is completed the following year.

Arabian Empire

• Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah sends a tributary mission to Emperor Zhenzong of the Song dynasty in order to reestablish trade relations between the Fatimid Caliphate and China (approximate date).

Japan

• November 13 – Kamo Special Festival: The poet Murasaki Shikibu is given her name from a famous court poet, Fujiwara no Kinto; this year she probably starts to write The Diary of Lady Murasaki.
• 42nd Birthday of Fujiwara no Michinaga, father-in-law of the emperor, is celebrated.

By topic

Religion

• Autumn – Bruno of Querfurt, a missionary bishop, and 18 companions sets out on a mission to spread Christianity among the Prussians.
• Olof Skötkonung, king of Sweden, is baptized in Husaby (Västergötland) by missionary Sigfrid, and makes generous donations on the spot.

Births

• May 4 – Henry I, king of France (d. 1060)
• October 12 – Atsuhira, future Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)
• Al-Mu'izz ibn Badis, Zirid ruler of Ifriqiya (d. 1062)
• Anselm of Liège, French chronicler and historian
• Di Qing, general of the Song Dynasty (d. 1057)
• Gothelo II (or Gozelo), duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 1046)
• Sugawara no Takasue, Japanese writer (approximate date)
• Wulfstan, bishop of Worcester (approximate date)

Deaths

• March 17 – Kazan, emperor of Japan (b. 968)
• April 7 – Ludolf (or Liudolf), archbishop of Trier
• April 10 – Notker of Liège, French bishop (b. 940)
• May 25
  • Bishi, Japanese imperial princess
  • Matilda of Saxony, countess of Flanders
• October 6 – Menendo González, Galician nobleman
• November 20 – Geoffrey I, duke of Brittany (b. 980)
• Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar, Andalusian court official
• Clothna mac Aenghusa, Irish poet (approximate date)
• Gunnlaugr Ormstunga, Icelandic poet (approximate date)
• Gurgen II (Magistros), king of Iberia-Kartli (Georgia)
• Ibn Zur'a, Abbasid physician and philosopher (b. 943)
• Madudan mac Gadhra Mór, king of Síol Anmchadha
• Poppo, Polish missionary bishop (approximate date)
• Raymond III, French nobleman (approximate date)
• Rotbold I (or Rotbaud), French nobleman
• Sarolt, Grand Princess of Hungary (b. 950)