1004

Year 1004 (MIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events[edit]

By place[edit]

Africa[edit]

• An episode of plague and famine breaks out in North Africa.^[1]

Asia[edit]

• December – The Samanid dynasty ends in Bokhara.
• The Liao dynasty launches a major offensive against the Song dynasty. Their armies meet near Shanyang, north of the Song capital of Kaifeng.
• Battle of Shanzhou: The Liao dynasty general Xiao Talin is picked off, by an elite Song Chinese crossbow sniper.
• Jingdezhen porcelain enters a period of significant production.

Europe[edit]

• May 14 – Henry II is crowned King of Italy at Pavia. A quarrel between his German companions and the Pavese erupts into a full-scale battle.
• Henry II launches a war against Bolesław of Poland (which lasts until 1018).
• Boleslaus I of Poland loses Bohemia, after having become duke the previous year. He is succeeded as Duke of Bohemia by Jaromir.
• Sancho III becomes king of Navarre, Aragon and Castille.
• Sweyn I of Denmark destroys Norwich.
• Aberdeen becomes a bishopric.
• The Arabs sack Pisa.
• The troops of Vizier Al-Mansur sack the Catalan city of Manresa.^[2]
• Pope John XVIII begins his reign (or 1003).

Births[edit]

• Abdallah ibn Al-Aftas (approximate date) (d. 1060)
• Goda of England (d. 1055)

Deaths[edit]

• November 13 – Abbo of Fleury
• Adelaide of Aquitaine, queen of France, wife of Hugh Capet
• Erik the Red (or 1003) (b. 950)
• Garcia IV of Pamplona
• Li Jiqian, Tangut jiedushi who ruled the new Western Xia Dynasty in northwestern China (b. 963)