1002

This article is about the year 1002. For the number, 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

1002 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1002 MII
Ab urbe condita	1755
Armenian calendar	451 ԹՎ ՆԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	5752
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 (Metal Ox) 3698 or 3638     — to — 壬寅年 (Water Tiger) 3699 or 3639
Coptic calendar	718–719
Discordian calendar	2168
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
Igbo calendar	2–3
Iranian calendar	380–381
Islamic calendar	392–393
Japanese calendar	Chōhō 4 (長保４年)
Julian calendar	1002 MII
Korean calendar	3335
Minguo calendar	910 before ROC 民前910年
Seleucid era	1313/1314 AG
Thai solar calendar	1544–1545

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 8 – Wulfsige III, Bishop of Sherborne, dies and is succeeded by Æthelric.
• 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 Gandersheim Abbey.
• 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 Almanzor, 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 the Duchy of Carinthia in return.
• King Æthelred the Unready of England marries (as his second wife) Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy.
• 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 – Sa'id al-Dawla, Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, poisoned
• January 23 – Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 980)
• April 30 – Eckard I, Margrave of Meissen, assassinated
• May 6 – Ealdwulf, Archbishop of York, Abbot of Peterborough and Bishop of Worcester
• August 8 – Almanzor, chief minister of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba, Spain
• October 15 – Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
• November 13 – St. Brice's Day massacre in England
  • Pallig, Danish chieftain, Jarl of Devonshire
  • Gunhilde, wife of Pallig
• Godfrey I, Count of Verdun
• Rogneda of Polotsk, wife of Vladimir I of Kiev before his conversion to Christianity
• Tahir, son of Khalaf I
• Udayadityavarman I of Khmer Empire
• Possible date
  • John the Iberian, Georgian saint
  • Sancho Ramírez of Viguera