Dark Ages Timeline

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c -  The Sinagua Indians, in what is now Arizona, made granaries in the cliffs along the Verde River some 100 miles north of Phoenix.
c - Cambodia Angkor Thom was the capital of the Khmer empire at its apogee during this time. u.c.1400
c - North America The Numic-speaking Shoshone Indians took part in a widespread migration from the Cosos Mountains on the northwestern edge of the Mojave Desert and populated a large portion of the western US.
c - Marrakech was founded. It was the terminus of a trade route running southward to the Niger River and of another running eastward to Cairo. u.c1100
c - ChinaMilitary Technology Gunpowder

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is invented and is used in warfare.
x - Military Technology The mail shirt which formed the bade armour of a Dark Age warrior is refined and extended to become a knee-length hauberk, sometimes supplemented by leggings and mittens of mail. u.1050
x - China A Confucian revival in China. The scholar Ch'eng I held that the I Ching was a means of inquiry into any possible matter. u.c.1100
x - India The sandstone sculpture "Uma Maheshvara" is a variant of the archetypal couple Shiva and Parvati. u.c.1100
jan 01 - Stephen became the first king of Hungary.

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mar 12 -  Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III. re.List of Popes

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oct 09 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" possibly New England. Norse sagas claim that Leif Ericson and a band of 35 men sailed for western lands based on an account by the Viking Bjarni Herjulfsson, who had sighted land after being blown off course. They found a land they called Vinland

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and built houses but returned to Greenland before the winter.
1002
c - Edward the Confessor born, English king r.1042-1066, saint and founder of Westminster Abbey. d.1066
c - Leaf Ericson's brother, Thorvald, arrived in Vinland

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but was killed by native Indians.A 3-year settlement was begun a few years later when Thorfin Karlsefni established a base with around 100 men and women at the L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
x - Ireland

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Brian Boru wins recognition as king of all Ireland

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x - Japan

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Sei Shonagon composes the Pillow Book (Makura no Shoshi) around this time.
jan 23 - Otto III, German king 983 / emperor 996-1002, dies at 21.
jun 06 - German king Henry II the Saint crowned.
jun 21 - Pope Leo IX was born. re.List of Popes

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He brought the conflict between Rome and the eastern Church to a head in 1054, ending with the Patriarch of Constantinople

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being excommunicated and the creation of the Schism.
jun 21 - Leo IX, Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg, Pope 1049-1054, is born.re.List of Popes
nov 13 - England

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Massacre of St Brice's day. English king Ethelred II launches massacre of Danish settlers.
nov 21 - England Ethelred marries Emma.

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1003
c - Christianity

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John XVII then John XVIII become Pope

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may 12 - Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome.
may 12 - Sylvester II, Gerbert van Aurillac, 1st French Pope 0999-1003, dies.
1004
c - Japan

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Lady Murasaki Shikibu

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wrote her classic court novel,Genji Monogatari or The Tale of Genji. u.c.1022
x - Japan First year of Kankô.
1005
x - England

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Aelfheah becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
x - Scotland Malcolm II becomes King.
1006
may 01 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus.
1008
x - status The earliest known water-powered wool-processing plant was operated at Ludi near Milan.
apr 10 - Notger, bishop of Luik 972-1008, dies.
1009
x - The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem destroyed by order of Hakim, sixth Fatimid Caliph of Egypt.
x - Jerusalem

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Caliph Hakim orders destruction of churches and synagogues u.1010.
x - Lithuania's name Lituae was first mentioned in Quedlinburg's annals.

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