Year 1007 (MVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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By place

England

• King Æthelred the Unready pays the Danish Vikings a sum of 36,000 pounds of silver (Danegeld) to stop further invasions.

Ireland

• The Book of Kells is stolen from the Abbey of Kells.

Japan

• January 1 (New Year’s Day) Imperial Princess Shushi is granted the title Ippon Shinno (first rank princess).

• January 29 Ranking ceremony of Murasaki Shikibu – as a renowned writer and lady-in-waiting, tutor of Empress Shōshi, she is elevated to the highest position in the palace below the empress.

• April Imperial Prince Tomohira receives the title nihon (second rank prince).

By topic

Religion

• November 1 King Henry II of Germany founds the Diocese of Bamberg during a synod held in Frankfurt.

• Ælfheah of Canterbury travels to Rome to receive his pallium – symbol of his status as an archbishop – from Pope John XVIII.

• The Keraites, a Turco-Mongolian tribe, are converted to Nestorianism (a sect of Christianity).</onlyinclude>

Births

• Emeric, Hungarian prince and co-heir (approximate date)

• Gervais de Château-du-Loir, French nobleman (d. 1067)

• Giselbert, count of Luxembourg (approximate date)

• Hugh Magnus (Hugues le Grand), king of France (d. 1025)

• Ibn Sidah, Andalusian linguist and lexicographer (d. 1066)

• Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)

• Maitripada, Indian Buddhist philosopher (d. 1085)

• Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and poet (d. 1072)

• Peter Damian, cardinal-bishop of Ostia (d. 1073)

• Welf III, duke of Carinthia (approximate date)

Deaths

• February 27 Ælfwaru, English noblewoman

• March 20 Abu Rakwa, Andalusian Umayyad prince

• July 21 Gisela of Burgundy, duchess of Bavaria

• October 31 Heriger, abbot of Lobbes (Belgium)

• Attilanus, bishop of Zamora (Spain) (b. 937)

• Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, Persian poet (b. 969)

• Guo, empress of the Song Dynasty (b. 975)

• Manjutakin, Fatimid general and governor

• Maslama al-Majriti, Andalusian chemist

• Pelayo Rodríguez, count (comes) of León

• Sebastian, archbishop of Esztergom

• Urraca Fernández, Galician queen

References