1008
This page relates to the year 1008 Calendrier Julien.
Events
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Beginning of the Arab civil Great War in Spain, with died of the son of Almanzor (fine in 1028).
- At the time of a terrible epidemic which devastates the Hainaut, the Virgin Mary appears with a hermit named Bertholin, in prayers close to a fountain located at Maing, with the length of the road of Valencian, and made of him its messenger near people of Valencians whom it preserves of the epidemic by the “ Miracle of the Saint Cord ”.
- the king of Sweden Olof Skötkonung is converted with Christianity by Saint Siegfried with the source Husaby (in Östergötland).
Arts & culture
- Oliva becomes abbot of the monastery of Ripoll, in Catalogne (fine in 1046). It enriches the library by it, develops some the monastic school, and the cultural radiation in France increases some.
- Publication of the '' Genii Monogatari '' (“Known as of Genji”), most famous of the Japanese novels, by Lady Murasaki Shikibu.
Sciences & technology
- the Arab scientist Al Hassan writes a treaty on the Quadrature of the circle.
Births in 1008
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May 4th: Henri Ier, king de France.
Death in 1008
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April 10th: Notger, first prince-bishop of Liege
- February 8th: Kazan, Emperor of Japan
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nonwell informed or unknown Dates :
- Rotboald Ier of Provence, count de Provence. (° v. 957).
- Al Hamadhani, Arab writer (born in 968), creator of the maqamat , or meetings.
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