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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	970s  980s  990s  – 1000s –  1010s  1020s  1030s
Years:	1005 1006 1007 – 1008 – 1009 1010 1011

1008 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments v • d • e

1008 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1008 MVIII
Ab urbe condita	1761
Armenian calendar	457 ԹՎ ՆԾԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-836 – -835
Bengali calendar	415
Berber calendar	1958
Buddhist calendar	1552
Burmese calendar	370
Byzantine calendar	6516 – 6517
Chinese calendar	丁未年十一月二十日 (3644/3704-11-20) — to — 戊申年十二月初二日 (3645/3705-12-2)
Coptic calendar	724 – 725
Ethiopian calendar	1000 – 1001
Hebrew calendar	4768 – 4769
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1063 – 1064
- Shaka Samvat	930 – 931
- Kali Yuga	4109 – 4110
Holocene calendar	11008
Iranian calendar	386 – 387
Islamic calendar	398 – 399
Japanese calendar
Korean calendar	3341
Thai solar calendar	1551
v • d • e

[edit] Events

[edit] By place

[edit] Europe

• Oldest known mention of the city of Gundelfingen.
• Olav Haraldsson, the future king of Norway, lands on Saaremaa Island in Estonia, wins a battle there and forces the inhabitants to pay tribute.
• Georgia is unified under King Bagrat III.
• Mohammed II succeeds Hisham II as Caliph of Cordoba.

[edit] Asia

• The Egyptian Fatimid Empire under Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah sends the sea captain Domiyat on a tributary mission to Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, in order to reestablish trade relations between Egypt and China.
• Battle of Peshawar: The Turkic Ghaznavid armies defeat a Hindu confederacy.

[edit] By topic

[edit] Religion

• Olof, king of Sweden, is baptized by Saint Sigfrid.
• Bruno of Querfurt and others try to establish a mission among the Prussians.

[edit] Births

• May 4—King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
• October 12—Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (d. 1036)
• Sugawara no Takasue no musume, Japanese writer
• Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester (d. 1095)

[edit] Deaths

• Emperor Kazan of Japan (b. 968)
• Gunnlaugur Ormstunga, Icelandic poet (b. c. 983)
• Al-Hamadhani, Persian writer