1006

Year 1006 (MVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	980s 990s 1000s 1010s 1020s
Years:	1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009

1006 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1006 MVI
Ab urbe condita	1759
Armenian calendar	455 ԹՎ ՆԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5756
Balinese saka calendar	927–928
Bengali calendar	413
Berber calendar	1956
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1550
Burmese calendar	368
Byzantine calendar	6514–6515
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3702 or 3642     — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3703 or 3643
Coptic calendar	722–723
Discordian calendar	2172
Ethiopian calendar	998–999
Hebrew calendar	4766–4767
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1062–1063
- Shaka Samvat	927–928
- Kali Yuga	4106–4107
Holocene calendar	11006
Igbo calendar	6–7
Iranian calendar	384–385
Islamic calendar	396–397
Japanese calendar	Kankō 3 (寛弘３年)
Javanese calendar	908–909
Julian calendar	1006 MVI
Korean calendar	3339
Minguo calendar	906 before ROC 民前906年
Nanakshahi calendar	−462
Seleucid era	1317/1318 AG
Thai solar calendar	1548–1549
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年 (female Wood-Snake) 1132 or 751 or −21     — to — 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 1133 or 752 or −20

SN 1006 supernova remnant (2008)

Events

Europe

• Summer – The Saracen fleet appears before Pisa, but departs again. The Pisans take their fleet to sea to give chase and defeat the Arab fleet at the battle of Reggio Calabria (Southern Italy).
• Brian Boru visits Ulster and remains unchallenged

England

• Fall – Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn I (Forkbeard) attack and destroy the river crossing at Wallingford. The Danes attack and burn the town of Reading (located in the Thames Valley).

Oceania

• A major eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano covers all of central Java with volcanic ash, causes devastation throughout central Java, and destroys the Hindu kingdom of Mataram on the island of Java.[1]

Astronomy

• May 1 – The brightest supernova ever recorded, SN 1006, occurs in the constellation of Lupus. It is observed and described in China, Japan, Iraq, Egypt, and Europe and possibly depicted in North American rock art. Modern astronomers now consider its distance at about 7,200 light-years. The supernova provides enough light to read by on a night with a dark moon.[2]

Births

• October 23 – Wen Yanbo, grand chancellor (d. 1097)
• Al-Lakhmi, Fatimid scholar and jurist (d. 1085)
• Constantine X, Byzantine emperor (d. 1067)
• Ísleifur Gissurarson, Icelandic bishop (d. 1080)
• Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Persian Sufi poet (d. 1088)

Deaths

• February 13 – Fulcran, bishop of Lodève (France)
• July 21 - Gisela of Burgundy, duchess of Bavaria
• December 26 – Gao Qiong, Chinese general (b. 935)
• Ælfhelm of York, ealdorman (dux) of Northumbria
• Azon the Venerable (or Atso), French prelate
• Cenwulf, bishop of Winchester (approximate date)
• Fiachra Ua Focarta, abbot of Clonfert (Ireland)
• Giovanni Orseolo, Venetian nobleman (b. 981)
• Ibn Marzuban, Persian official and physician
• Maud of Normandy, French noblewoman
• Olaf the Peacock, Icelandic merchant
• Sherira Gaon, Jewish spiritual leader

References

1. "A history of Merapi". Archived from the original on February 8, 2007. Retrieved February 20, 2007.
2. Murdin, Paul; Murdin, Lesley (1985). Supernovae. Cambridge University Press. pp. 14–16. ISBN 052130038X.