Years: 999 1000 1001 - 1002 - 1003 1004 1005

Decades: 970s 980s 990s - 1000s - 1010s 1020s 1030s

Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century 1002 state leaders

Events

• November 13 - English king Ethelred gives order to kill all Danes in England.
• Brian Boru rises to power in Ireland, taking the title of High King.
• All-out war breaks out between Byzantine Emperor Basil II and Bulgarian tsar Samuil.
• Henry II succeeds Otto III as king of Germany.
• With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony on Greenland.
• Danegeld is paid.

Births

• June 21 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)

Deaths

• January 23 - Otto III, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (b. 980)
• August 8 - Al-Mansur, chief minister of the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba
• October 15 - Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy (b. 946)
• Duke Boleslaus III of Bohemia