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1010 (MX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1010th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 10th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 11th century, and the 1st year of the 1010s decade. As of the start of 1010, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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1010 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar1010
MX
Ab urbe condita1763
Armenian calendar459
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Assyrian calendar5760
Balinese saka calendar931–932
Bengali calendar417
Berber calendar1960
English Regnal yearN/A
Buddhist calendar1554
Burmese calendar372
Byzantine calendar6518–6519
Chinese calendar己酉(Earth Rooster)
3706 or 3646
     to 
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
3707 or 3647
Coptic calendar726–727
Discordian calendar2176
Ethiopian calendar1002–1003
Hebrew calendar4770–4771
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1066–1067
 - Shaka Samvat931–932
 - Kali Yuga4110–4111
Holocene calendar11010
Igbo calendar10–11
Iranian calendar388–389
Islamic calendar400–401
Japanese calendarKankō 7
(寛弘7年)
Javanese calendar912–913
Julian calendar1010
MX
Korean calendar3343
Minguo calendar902 before ROC
民前902年
Nanakshahi calendar−458
Seleucid era1321/1322 AG
Thai solar calendar1552–1553
Tibetan calendar阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
1136 or 755 or −17
     to 
阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
1137 or 756 or −16
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Events

By place

Europe

  • The city of Yaroslavl is said to have been founded.
  • Hisham II the Nephast is restored as Umayyad caliph of Córdoba, replacing Muhammad II al-Mahdi.
  • Allied to Muslim rebels, the count of Barcelona robs and destroys Cordoba.[1]

Asia

  • The Lý Dynasty is started in Vietnam (or 1009) and moves the capital to Hanoi.
  • Persian poet Ferdowsi finishes writing The Shahnameh (Book of Kings).
  • The Goryeo king is unseated in a revolt, resulting in an invasion by the Liao Dynasty and the burning of the Korean capital Gaegyeong in the Second Goryeo-Khitan War.
  • Song Zhun of Song Dynasty China completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, a huge atlas of China that is written and illustrated in 1,556 chapters, showing maps of each region, city, town, and village. The atlas took 39 years to complete.

Americas

  • Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America (approximate date).

By topic

Art

  • The construction of Brihadeeswarar temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India, ends. Chola Dynasty, Early Medieval period.
  • Rajaraja I and His Teacher, detail of a wall painting in the Brihadeeswarar temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India, is made. Chola Dynasty. Early Medieval period (approximate date).

Literature

Technology

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Births

  • May 30 Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
  • June 2 Benno, bishop of Meissen (d. 1106)
  • King Bermudo III of León (d. 1037)
  • Ali Ahmad Nasawi, (d. 1075)
  • Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (d. 1041)
  • Archbishop Gebhard of Salzburg (d. 1088)
  • Otto of Savoy (d. 1060)
  • Adalbero of Würzburg, Bishop of Würzburg and Count of Lambach-Wels (d. 1090)

Deaths

  • John Curcuas, Byzantine catepan of Italy
  • Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot
  • Aimoin, French monk and chronicler

References

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