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| c. 1000 |
| | | Iceland's parliament, the althing, passes a resolution that everyone on the island is to be baptized | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The first illustrated manual of surgery is written by Abul Kasim, an Arab physician in Cordoba | |
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| c. 1000 |
| | | The feudal knight of northern Europe, wearing armour of chain mail on a sturdy horse, becomes the fighting machine of the Middle Ages | |
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| c. 1001 |
| | | Pope Sylvester II, according to tradition, sends a sacred crown for the coronation of Hungary's first king, St Stephen | |
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| 1014 |
| | | Brian Boru, aged 73, achieves a major victory over the Vikings at Clontarf but is killed in his tent after the battle | |
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| 1017 |
| | | Canute, joint king of Denmark, is accepted also as king of England after subduing the country and marrying Ethelred's widow | |
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| c. 1030 |
| | | Yaroslav builds up his Russian kingdom and turns his capital, Kiev, into a spectacular Christian city | |
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| c. 1030 |
| | | Yaroslav commissions Russkaya Pravda ('Russian truth'), a code of Russia's laws | |
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| 1040 |
| | | In a battle near Elgin Macbeth kills his cousin Duncan, a rival claimant to the Scottish throne | |
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| 1042 |
| | | Edward the Confessor, the rightful heir in the Anglo-Saxon royal line, becomes king of England | |
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