1010s

The 1010s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1010, and ended on December 31, 1019.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century 11th century 12th century
Decades:	990s 1000s 1010s 1020s 1030s
Years:	1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019
Categories:	Births Deaths By country By topic Establishments Disestablishments

Events

1010

By place

Africa

• The Nile River in Egypt freezes over.[1]

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 (modern-day Hanoi).
• Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: The Goryeo king is unseated in a revolt, resulting in an invasion by the Liao dynasty, and the burning of the Korean capital Gaegyeong.
• 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).
• In the Chola dynasty, the first votes are celebrated by adding a ballot in an urn.

Americas

• Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America (approximate date).

Europe

• The Russian city of Yaroslavl is founded as an outpost of the principality of Rostov Veliky.
• Hisham II the Nephast is restored as Umayyad caliph of the Caliphate of Córdoba, succeeding Muhammad II al-Mahdi.
• Allied to Muslim rebels, Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona sacks Córdoba.[2]
• June 2 - The Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr takes place in the context of the Fitna of al-Andalus resulting in a defeat for the Caliphate of Córdoba.

By topic

Art

• The construction of Brihadisvara Temple at Tamil Nadu (modern India) is completed during the Chola dynasty (Early Medieval period).
• Rajaraja I and His Teacher, detail of a wall painting in the Brihadisvara Temple is made during the 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.

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Significant people

• Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)
• Abu Nasr Mansur
• Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
• Alhacen (Ibn al-Haytham)
• Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
• Basil II
• Boleslaus I
• Canute
• Fujiwara no Michinaga
• Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Malcolm II of Scotland
• Sweyn I

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1. Lamb 2012.
2. Boissonade 1934.

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