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Archdiocese of Bamberg

Year 1007 (MVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

England

  • King Æthelred the Unready pays the Danish Vikings a sum of 36,000 pounds of silver (Danegeld) to stop further invasions.

Ireland

  • The Book of Kells is stolen from the Abbey of Kells.

Japan

  • 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

Religion

  • 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).

Births

  • 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

  • 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
  • Sebastian, archbishop of Esztergom
  • Urraca Fernández, Galician queen

References

References

  1. John Haywood (1995). ''Historical Atlas of the Vikings'', p. 118. {{ISBN. 978-0-140-51328-8.
  2. (2000). "Triad Societies: Western Accounts of the History, Sociology and Linguistics of Chinese Secret Societies". Taylor & Francis.
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