1006

This article is about the year 1006. For the number, see 1006 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	970s  980s  990s  – 1000s –  1010s  1020s  1030s
Years:	1003 1004 1005 – 1006 – 1007 1008 1009

1006 by topic

Lists of leaders

State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

1006 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1006 MVI
Ab urbe condita	1759
Armenian calendar	455 ԹՎ ՆԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5756
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	928–929
- Kali Yuga	4107–4108
Holocene calendar	11006
Igbo calendar	6–7
Iranian calendar	384–385
Islamic calendar	396–397
Japanese calendar	Kankō 3 (寛弘３年)
Julian calendar	1006 MVI
Korean calendar	3339
Minguo calendar	906 before ROC 民前906年
Seleucid era	1317/1318 AG
Thai solar calendar	1548–1549

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

Events

By place

Oceania

• A major eruption of Mount Merapi volcano covers all of central Java with volcanic ash, caused devastation throughout central Java, and destroyed a Hindu kingdom on the island of Java.

Europe

• Holmgang (dueling) is declared illegal in Iceland.

Asia

• Granaries for famine relief are set up across China.

By topic

Religion

• Aelfheah (St. Alphege) goes to Pope John XVIII at Rome for his pallium and becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

Astronomy

• May 1 – The brightest supernova ever recorded, SN 1006, occurs in the constellation of Lupus. It is observed and described in China, Japan, the Middle East, Europe, and elsewhere. The records of the event were suppressed in some western countries. The Supernova provided enough light to read by on a night with a dark moon.

Births

• Constantine X, emperor of Byzantium (d. 1067)

Deaths

• July 21 - Gisela of Burgundy