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Iceland's parliament, the althing, passes a resolution that everyone on the island is to be baptized
A Muslim dynasty is established at Gao, on the Niger
The Jews, barred from any work which Christians want to do, find profitable employment as money-lenders
The first illustrated manual of surgery is written by Abul Kasim, an Arab physician in Cordoba
The huge stone heads standing on Easter Island are carved and erected at some time between the sixth and seventeenth century AD
Leif Ericsson claims to have made landfall at three places in north America, one of which he names Vinland - the land of wine
The salt mines of the Sahara provide a staple commodity in the African caravan trade
Man-eating Caribs move into the islands around the sea named after them - the Caribbean
The Inca ethnic group migrates into the region of the Cuzco valley in Peru
Turks from Ghazni, raiding into northwest India, renew the pressure of Islam on the subcontinent
Warlike tribal groups, calling themselves Rajput and claiming descent from the Aryan warrior caste, are now in Rajasthan
A trading centre at Mapungubwe, on the Limpopo, evolves into a state ruled by a king in a zimbabwe
Lively and often fantastic figures, cunningly fitted around the capitals of columns, show the vigour of Romanesque sculpture
The feudal knight of northern Europe, wearing armour of chain mail on a sturdy horse, becomes the fighting machine of the Middle Ages
Buddhist, Hindu and Jain shrines are carved from the rock in the cave temples of Ellora, in India
Japanese author Murasaki Shibubi produces, in The Tale of Genji, a book which can be considered the world's first novel
Pope Sylvester II, according to tradition, sends a sacred crown for the coronation of Hungary's first king, St Stephen
Thorfinn Karlsefni leads an expedition to north America, traces of which may survive in a longhouse at L'Anse aux Meadows
Firdausi completes his great chronicle of Persian history, the Shah-nama, which becomes established as Iran's national epic
Brian Boru, aged 73, achieves a major victory over the Vikings at Clontarf but is killed in his tent after the battle
Canute, joint king of Denmark, is accepted also as king of England after subduing the country and marrying Ethelred's widow
The Persian scholar Avicenna, author of encyclopedic works on philosophy and medicine, spends the last part of his life in Isfahan
Count Radbot builds himself a 'hawk's castle' or Habichstburg, near Zurich, from which the Habsburg dynasty takes its name
Conrad II is elected as the German king, begining the dynasty variously known as Franconian or Salian
Mahmud of Ghazni marches an army across an Indian desert to destroy a great temple at Somnath, killing - it is said - some 50,000 Hindus
