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The Holy Roman Emperor Otto III dies of malaria January 23 at age 21 while conducting a campaign against the Romans. He is succeeded as king of the Franks and Bavarians June 7 by his 28-year-old cousin Heinrich, duke of Bavaria, who is elected as Heinrich II and will become emperor in 1014. Bavaria in this century will be ruled by various houses (see 1047).
Poland's Boleslav I seizes the principality of Bohemia and the imperial lands of Lusatia and Meissen following the death of Otto III, precipitating the first of three wars between the Poles and the new Frankish-Bavarian king Heinrich II that will continue off and on until 1018.
The Umayyad vizier Abu Amir al-Mansur of Córdoba dies at age 63 after 21 years in power. He has enriched himself by raiding Christian Spain each summer and hauling the loot that he plundered back to Córdoba, whose citizens he has taxed to build himself a great palace—the Madinat al-Zahira, or Shining City. The caliphate begins to decline under Almanzor's successor, Hisham II.
The Byzantine armies of Basil II overrun Macedonia and defeat the Bulgarians at Vidin. Basil earns the nickname "Slayer of the Bulgars."
Danish settlers in England are massacred November 3 (St. Brice's Day) by order of Ethelred (Aethelred) II (see 1003).
Iron plows with wheels will replace wooden plows in much of northern Europe in this century. Food will become more abundant as a result of such agricultural improvements, but France will nevertheless have 26 famines and England will average one famine every 14 years.
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This article is about the year 1002. For the number (and other uses), see 1002 (number).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 10th century – 11th century – 12th century |
| Decades: | 970s 980s 990s – 1000s – 1010s 1020s 1030s |
| Years: | 999 1000 1001 – 1002 – 1003 1004 1005 |
| 1002 by topic | |
| Lists of leaders | |
| State leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 1002 MII |
| Ab urbe condita | 1755 |
| Armenian calendar | 451 ԹՎ ՆԾԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 5752 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -842–-841 |
| Bengali calendar | 409 |
| Berber calendar | 1952 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1546 |
| Burmese calendar | 364 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6510–6511 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛丑年十二月十五日 (3638/3698-12-15) — to —
壬寅年十一月廿五日(3639/3699-11-25) |
| Coptic calendar | 718–719 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 994–995 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4762–4763 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1058–1059 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 924–925 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4103–4104 |
| Holocene calendar | 11002 |
| Iranian calendar | 380–381 |
| Islamic calendar | 392–393 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 3335 |
| Minguo calendar | 910 before ROC 民前910年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1545 |
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Year 1002 (MII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
- January 23 – Henry II succeeds Otto III as king of Germany.
- June – Frederick is sent as an imperial legate to the Synod of Pöhlde to mediate between the claims of Bernard, Bishop of Hildesheim, and Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz, concerning the control of the abbey of Gandersheim.
- July – Battle of Calatañazor: superior Christian armies of Castille led by Count Sancho García and León led by Alfonso V defeat invading Muslim forces under Almanzor.
- August 8 – Abd al-Malik succeeds Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, Spain
- November 13 – St. Brice's Day massacre: English king Æthelred the Unready orders all Danes in England killed.
- November – Frederick is elected Archbishop of Ravenna.
- Vladivoj succeeds Boleslaus III, Duke of Bohemia.
- Otto of Worms withdraws his nomination for the title of Holy Roman Emperor and receives Duchy of Carinthia in return.
- Æthelred the Unready married Emma of Normandy, Richard's I the fearless, duke of Normandy's daughter.
- Brian Boru, King of Leinster and Munster, becomes High King of Ireland, breaking the Uí Néill monopoly on the title. Not satisfied with the submission of Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, Brian Boru makes an expedition to the north to take hostages from the northern states.
- John IV of Naples is probably released from German captivity by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor.
- With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony in Greenland.
- Danegeld is paid by Æthelred the Unready to prevent Viking raids against England.
Middle East
- December – Khalaf I of Sistan surrenders to Ghaznavids in Taq.
Sub-Saharan Africa
- Rafael of Makuria constructs a red brick building in Old Dongola.
Births
- June 21 – Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)
- Adolf II of Lotharingia (d. 1041)
- Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Sunni Muslim scholar and historian (d. 1071)
- George I of Georgia (possible date; d. 1027)
- Mei Yaochen, Chinese poet of the Song Dynasty (d. 1060)
Deaths
- January 23 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
- April 30 – Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen, assassinated
- August 8 – Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, Spain
- October 15 – Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
- Ealdwulf, Abbot of Peterborough, Bishop of Worchester and Archbishop of York
- Godfrey I, Count of Verdun
- Gunhilde, wife of Pallig, killed in the St. Brice's Day massacre
- John the Iberian, Georgian saint (possible date)
- Pallig, Danish chieftain, Jarl of Devonshire, killed in the St. Brice's Day massacre
- Rogneda of Polotsk, wife of Vladimir I of Kiev before his conversion to Christianity
- Sancho Ramírez of Viguera (possible date)
- Tahir, son of Khalaf I
- Udayadityavarman I of Khmer Empire
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