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Events

By Place

Europe

* The city of Yaroslavl is said to have been founded.

Asia

* The Ly Dynasty is established in Vietnam (or 1009) and moves the capital to Hanoi.
* Persian poet Ferdowsi finishes writing "The Shahnameh" (Book of Kings).
* Hisham II is restored as Umayyad caliph of Cordoba, succeeding Suleiman II.
* The Goryeo king is unseated in a revolt, resulting in an invasion by the Liao Dynasty and the burning of the Korean capital Kaekyong in the Second Goryeo-Khitan War.
* Song Zhun of Song Dynasty China completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, an enormous atlas of China that is written and illustrated in 1,556 chapters, showing maps of each region, city, town, and village. The atlas took 39 years to complete.

Americas

* Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America (approximate date).

Africa

* The river Nile freezes.

By Topic

Literature

* Lady Murasaki writes "The Tale of Genji" in Japanese (approximate date).
* "Beowulf" is written anonymously(approximate date).

Technology

* Eilmer of Malmesbury attempts flight in a glider of his own construction.

Births

* May 30 — Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
* Benno, bishop of Meissen (d. 1106)
* King Bermudo III of León (d. 1037)
* Ali Ahmad Nasawi, (d. 1075)
* Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1041)
* Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg (d. 1088)
* Otto of Savoy (d. 1060)
* Adalbero of Würzburg, Bishop of Würzburg and Count of Lambach-Wels (d. 1111)

Deaths

* John Curcuas, Byzantine catepan of Italy
* Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot
* Aimoin, French monk and chronicler