1007 Explained

Year 1007 (MVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

England

• King Æthelred the Unready pays the Danish Vikings a sum of 36,000 pounds of silver (Danegeld) to stop further invasions.^[1]

Ireland

• The Book of Kells is stolen from the Abbey of Kells.

Japan

• January 1 (New Year’s Day)  - Imperial Princess Shushi is granted the title Ippon Shinno (first rank princess).
• January 29  - Ranking ceremony of Murasaki Shikibu – as a renowned writer and lady-in-waiting, tutor of Empress Shōshi, she is elevated to the highest position in the palace below the empress.
• April  - Imperial Prince Tomohira receives the title nihon (second rank prince).

By topic

Religion

• November 1  - King Henry II of Germany founds the Diocese of Bamberg during a synod held in Frankfurt.
• Ælfheah of Canterbury travels to Rome to receive his pallium – symbol of his status as an archbishop – from Pope John XVIII.
• The Keraites, a Turco-Mongolian tribe, are converted to Nestorianism (a sect of Christianity).^[2]

Births

• Emeric, Hungarian prince and co-heir (approximate date)
• Gervais de Château-du-Loir, French nobleman (d. 1067)
• Giselbert, count of Luxembourg (approximate date)
• Hugh Magnus (Hugues le Grand), king of France (d. 1025)
• Ibn Sidah, Andalusian linguist and lexicographer (d. 1066)
• Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)
• Maitripada, Indian Buddhist philosopher (d. 1085)
• Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and poet (d. 1072)
• Peter Damian, cardinal-bishop of Ostia (d. 1073)
• Welf III, duke of Carinthia (approximate date)

Deaths

• February 27  - Ælfwaru, English noblewoman
• March 20  - Abu Rakwa, Andalusian Umayyad prince
• July 21  - Gisela of Burgundy, duchess of Bavaria
• October 31  - Heriger, abbot of Lobbes (Belgium)
• Attilanus, bishop of Zamora (Spain) (b. 937)
• Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, Persian poet (b. 969)
• Guo, empress of the Song Dynasty (b. 975)
• Manjutakin, Fatimid general and governor
• Maslama al-Majriti, Andalusian chemist
  • Pelayo Rodríguez, count (comes) of León Sebestyén, archbishop of Esztergom
• Urraca Fernández, Galician queen

Notes and References

1. John Haywood (1995). Historical Atlas of the Vikings, p. 118. .
2. Book: Kingsley Bolton. Christopher Hutton. Triad Societies: Western Accounts of the History, Sociology and Linguistics of Chinese Secret Societies. 2000. 978-0-415-24397-1.