| | PH : | Bohemia and Moravia united | | PH : | King Olaf of Norway killed in the Battle of Svolder; Norway becomes Danish | | PH : | Piasts rule in Poland | | PH : | King Rajaraja of the Chola dynasty conquers Ceylon | | PH : | King Stephen of Hungary receives from the pope the title of Apostolic Majesty | | PH : | Sancho III, the Great, of Navarre | | LT : | Beowulf, heroic poem written in Old English GO ! | | RP : | Archbishopric of Gniezno established | | RP : | King Stephen of Hungary founds the Monastery of Gran | | RP : | Christianity reaches Iceland and Greenland | | RP : | Spiritual centre of Judaism switches from Mesopotamia to Spain | | VA : | Artistic revival in Italy (fresco and mosaic paintings) | | M : | Musical notation improved by Guido d'Arezzo | | PH : | Leif Ericson, son of Eric the Red, is supposed to have discovered America (Nova Scotia) | | ST : | Indian mathematician Sridhara recognises the importance of the zero | | ST : | Arabs and Jews become court physicians in Germany | | DL : | Widespread fear of the End of the World and the Last Judgement | | DL : | Danegeld - general tax in England | | DL : | Potatoes and corn planted in Peru | | DL : | The Frisians build dikes against floods and invasions | | ST : | Chinese perfect their invention of gunpowder | | DL : | Saxons settle at Bristol |
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| | PH : | Otto III dies; succeeded by his cousin Henry II, the Saint | | PH : | Massacre of St. Brice's Day; Dan. settlers in England murdered by order of Ethelred II | | PH : | Almanzor dies: beginning of the fall of caliphate of Cordoba | | PH : | Muzaffar, Caliph of Cordoba |
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| | PH : | War between Germany and Poland | | RP : | Pope John XVII | | RP : | Founding of Bamberg Cathedral under Henry II |
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| | PH : | King Henry's first Ital. campaign: he defeats Ardoin and is crowned King of Lombardy at Pavia | | PH : | Henry's war against Boleslav | | PH : | Arabs sack Pisa | | PH : | China becomes tributary to the Tungusic Khitans | | RP : | Pope John XVIII |
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| | PH : | Malcom II, King of Scotland |
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| | DL : | Mohammedans settle in northwestern India |
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| | PH : | Ethelred II pays 30,000 pounds to the Danes to gain two years' freedom from attacks |
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| | PH : | Mahmud of Ghazni defeats Hindus at Peshawar | | M : | Berno, Abbot of Reichenau writes his books on musical theory |
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| | PH : | The Mohammedans sack the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem | | PH : | First Imperial Diet at Goslar | | RP : | Bruno of Querfurt martyred by the Prussians | | RP : | Thietmar, Bishop of Merseburg: Chronical | | RP : | Pope Sergius IV |
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| | PH : | Robert II of France proclaims the "Peace of God" | | RP : | Richer of St. Remy, author of Historia Remensis ecclesiae |
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| | PH : | Ethelred invades South Wales, and the Danes take Canterbury | | RP : | The "Handkerchief of St. Veronica" kept in a special altar in Rome |
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| | PH : | Ethelred pays additional 48,000 pounds to the Danes | | RP : | First persecution of heretics in Germany | | RP : | The "Decretum" of Bishop Burchard of Worms | | RP : | Pope Benedict VIII |
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| | PH : | The Danes masters of England (Reign of Sweyn); Ethelred flees to Normandy |
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| | PH : | On Henry's second Ital. campaign he is crowned emperor in Rome | | PH : | End of Norse rule in Ireland | | PH : | Western part of Bulgaria to Byzantium | | PH : | Sweyn dies; succeeded by Canute: Ethelred returns GO ! |
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| | PH : | Wessex submits to Canute | | PH : | Arabs conquer Sardinia | | PH : | Jaroslav, Prince of Kiev | | PH : | King Olaf II, the Saint, restores Norw. independence and Christianity | | M : | At Pomposa Monastery, near Ravenna, sight singing is introduced | | DL : | First mention of Leipzig (Slav settlement) | | DL : | Municipal self-government at Benevento - first "communitas" |
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| | PH : | Ethelred II, the Unready, dies; Edmund II declared king by Londoners, Canute chosen by the Witan; the two make peace leaving Edmund with Wessex and Canute with Mercia and Northumbria. On Edmund's death in November, Canute is king of all England
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| | PH : | Canute divides England into four earldoms |
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| | PH : | End of war between Germany and Poland | | PH : | Union of southern and northern Scotland | | PH : | Byzantium regains Macedonia; Bulgarians submit | | PH : | Council of Oxford: Canute confirms laws of Edgar |
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| | DL : | Jaroslav the Wise, Prince of Kiev, codifies Russ. law and builds cities, schools, and churches | | PH : | Pisa annexes Corsica | | PH : | Faroes, Shetlands, and Orkneys recognise Olaf Haraldsson as king | | PH : | Rebellion of Bernard II, Duke of Saxony | | RP : | Bamberg Cathedral consecrated by Pope Benedict VIII |
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| | DL : | St. Vitus' dance epidemics in Europe |
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| | PH : | The Emperor Henry II defeats the Greeks in southern Italy | | RP : | Synod of Pavia insists on celibacy of higher clergy |
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| | PH : | Henry II dies; succeeded as Ger. king of Conrad II, the Salic, first of Franconian line | | RP : | Pope John XIX |
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| | PH : | Boleslav I accepts title King of Poland | | PH : | Beginning of decline of Byzantine power | | VA : | Takayoshi founds Tosa school of painting |
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| | M : | Guido d'Arezzo introduces solmisation in music (do, re, me, fa, sol, la) |
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| | RP : | Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II Holy Roman Emperor at Rome |
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| | PH : | Canute conquers Norway | | PH : | Romanus III, Byzantine Emperor | | PH : | Sancho of Navarre takes Castile |
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| | DL : | Jaroslav of Kiev founds Dorpat | | DL : | Vienna mentioned for the first time in documents (Wien) |
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| | PH : | Henry I, King of France | | PH : | Pol.-Hung. frontier treaty | | PH : | The caliphate of Cordoba abolished |
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| | PH : | Rudolph III of Burgundy dies, and Conrad unites Burgundy with the Empire | | RP : | Pope Benedict IX |
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| | PH : | The Germans and Russians defeat Mieczyslav II of Poland, which becomes fief of the Empire | | PH : | Castile becomes a separate kingdom |
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| | PH : | Malcom II of Scotland dies; succeeded by his grandson Duncan | | PH : | Bratislav, Duke of Bohemia | | PH : | Michael IV, the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor |
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| | PH : | Canute dies, his kingdom is divided among his three sons: England to Harold, Norway to Sweyn, and Denmark to Hardicanute GO ! | | PH : | Ferdinand I of Castile |
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