This article is about the single year 1000 of the Julian and Gregorian calendars. For events or processes with the "approximate date" 1000, see1000s (decade),990s,10th century, and11th century.
"1000 (year)" redirects here. For the year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar, see1000 BC.
ས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Earth-Boar) 1126 or 745 or −27 — to — ལྕགས་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Iron-Rat) 1127 or 746 or −26
1000 (M) was aleap year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar, the 1000th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the1st millennium, the 100th and last year of the10th century, and the 1st year of the1000s decade. As of the start of 1000, the Gregorian calendar was 5 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
Palace Scandal: Princess Consort Yasuko has an affair. Michinaga (her half-brother) investigates it secretly and finds out the truth about her pregnancy. Yasuko cries and repents. Yasuko leaves the palace under the patronage of Empress Dowager Senshi and Michinaga (moved to his residence).[citation needed]
January 10: Death of Empress Dowager Masako (empress consort of the late Emperor Reizei)[citation needed]
April 8: Fujiwara no Shoshi is promoted to Empress (Chugu), while there is another empress, Fujiwara no Teishi (kogo) - this is the first time that there are two empresses[3]
Thepapacy during this time was in a period of decline, in retrospect known as thesaeculum obscurum ("Dark Age") or "pornocracy" ("rule of harlots"), a state of affairs that would result in theGreat Schism betweenRoman Catholicism andEastern Orthodoxy later in the 11th century.
TheKingdom of Hungary was established in 1000 as a Christian state. In the next centuries, the Kingdom of Hungary became the pre-eminent cultural power in the Central European region. OnDecember 25,Stephen I was crowned as the first King of Hungary inEsztergom.
Sancho III of Pamplona became King ofAragon andNavarre. TheReconquista was gaining some ground, but the southern Iberian peninsula would still be dominated by Islam for centuries to come;Córdoba was the world's largest city at this time, with 450,000 inhabitants.
^310 million: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. 254 million: Jean-Noël Biraben, 1980, "An Essay Concerning Mankind's Evolution", Population, Selected Papers, Vol. 4, pp. 1–13.
^"Top 10 Cities of the Year 1000".About.com Geography. About.com. Archived fromthe original on June 5, 2013.It referencesChandler, Tertius (1987).Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census. St. David's University Press.
Robert Lacey and Danny DanzigerThe Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (1999)ISBN0-316-55840-0
