1010

This article is about the year 1010. For the number, see 1010 (number). For other uses, see 1010 (disambiguation).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	980s  990s  1000s  – 1010s –  1020s  1030s  1040s
Years:	1007 1008 1009 – 1010 – 1011 1012 1013

1010 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1010 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1010 MX
Ab urbe condita	1763
Armenian calendar	459 ԹՎ ՆԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	5760
Bengali calendar	417
Berber calendar	1960
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1554
Burmese calendar	372
Byzantine calendar	6518–6519
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 3706 or 3646     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 3707 or 3647
Coptic calendar	726–727
Discordian calendar	2176
Ethiopian calendar	1002–1003
Hebrew calendar	4770–4771
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1066–1067
- Shaka Samvat	932–933
- Kali Yuga	4111–4112
Holocene calendar	11010
Igbo calendar	10–11
Iranian calendar	388–389
Islamic calendar	400–401
Japanese calendar	Kankō 7 (寛弘７年)
Julian calendar	1010 MX
Korean calendar	3343
Minguo calendar	902 before ROC 民前902年
Seleucid era	1321/1322 AG
Thai solar calendar	1552–1553

Year 1010 (MX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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, succeeding Muhammad II al-Mahdi.
• Allied to Muslim rebels, Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona sacks Córdoba.

Egypt

• The Nile freezes over.

Asia

• March 8 – Persian poet Ferdowsi finishes writing the Shahnameh (Book of Kings) which will be regarded as the national epic of the greater Iranian culture.
• The Lý dynasty is established in Vietnam (or 1009) and moves the capital to Thăng Long (currently Hanoi).
• 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 conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War.
• Song Zhun of Song dynasty China completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, an enormous 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 Þorfinnr "Karlsefni" Þórðarson attempted 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

• Lady Murasaki writes The Tale of Genji in Japanese] (approximate date).
• Beowulf is written anonymously (approximate date).

Technology

• Eilmer of Malmesbury attempts flight in a glider of his own construction.

Births

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

Deaths

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