1002

1002 (MII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1002nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 2nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 11th century, and the 3rd year of the 1000s decade. As of the start of 1002, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1002 MII
Ab urbe condita	1755
Armenian calendar	451 ԹՎ ՆԾԱ
Assyrian calendar	5752
Balinese saka calendar	923–924
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	923–924
- Kali Yuga	4102–4103
Holocene calendar	11002
Igbo calendar	2–3
Iranian calendar	380–381
Islamic calendar	392–393
Japanese calendar	Chōhō 4 (長保４年)
Javanese calendar	904–905
Julian calendar	1002 MII
Korean calendar	3335
Minguo calendar	910 before ROC 民前910年
Nanakshahi calendar	−466
Seleucid era	1313/1314 AG
Thai solar calendar	1544–1545
Tibetan calendar	阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 1128 or 747 or −25     — to — 阳水虎年 (male Water-Tiger) 1129 or 748 or −24

Events

• January 23 – Emperor Otto III dies, at the age of 22, of smallpox at Castle of Paterno (near Rome) after a 19-year reign. He leaves no son, nor a surviving brother who can succeed by hereditary right to the throne.^[1] Otto is buried in Aachen Cathedral alongside the body of Charlemagne (Charles the Great).

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

References

1. Reuter, Timothy (1992). The New Cambridge Medieval History, Volume III, p. 259. ISBN 978-0-521-36447-8.