1010

This page relates to the year 1010 Calendrier Julien.

Events

America

Africa

  • Gao becomes the capital of the Empire songhai of the Sudan to the detriment of Koukia. The dynasty Songhaï becomes Moslem.
    • Located at an end of the track Tripoli - Niger, the kingdom of Gao maintains during three century the commercial relations followed with the Mali to the west and the Moslems the Mediterranean.

Asia

  • the general Ly Long Uan proclaims king of the Vietnam under the name of Thai Ly To.
  • Mahmud de Ghazni takes Lahore, which ensures to him the control of the basin of the Indus. It captures with Multân the governor ismaïlien. A ismaïlien named Khalif then founds the dynasty of the Sumras, which directs the Sind until in 1352.

Europe

  • May 10th: Sulayman Ben Al-Hakam is driven out and Cordoue put at bag by the Catalans.
    • the counts Raymond Borrell of Barcelona and Ermengol d' Urgell, with the head of an army of 9  000 men according to the Moslem sources, put themselves at the service of an applicant to the Califat of Cordoue Muhammad Al-Mahdi and penetrate in Cordoue. For price of their intervention they receive the sum of 100  000 dinars.
  • July 23rd: Restoration of Hicham II Caliph of Cordoue with died of Muhammad, assassinated by the Wadih general (fine in 1012).

  • Destruction of Madinat Al-Zahra, with the doors of Cordoue, by the Berber .
  • the Danes beat the English divided with the Bataille of Ringmere, victory which delivers all to them the East-Anglia. The England is delivered to the distress.
  • the king Norwegian Viking Olaf the Large (pagan), returns visit to the duke of Normandy Richard Irascible the, remaining in particular with Rouen where it is made baptize. Then, the Norman duchy, it leaves in forwarding, accompanied by Normands of the duchy, devastating the west coasts of the France and the Iberian peninsula.

Economy & company

  • the essential Rights of the city of Pavia, written between 1010 and 1027, show the richness of the city, attended by English merchants, Saxons, Vénitiens, of Salerno, Gaète and Amalfi.

  • Of the merchants Danish and Swedish arrive until Novgorod and Kiev.

Art & culture

  • the first mention written of the play of failures in Occident is located in a will of the count d' Urgell, in Catalogne.

  • Beginning of the construction of the abbey of Saint-Michel of Hildesheim in Germany (fine in 1033).
  • Construction of the large mosque of the Cairo by Al-Hakim.

  • the Persan poet Firdawsi finishes its heroic epopee the Shâh Nâmâ (the book of the kings), dedicated to Mahmud de Ghazni.

  • the king of the Vietnam Thai Ly To builds many Buddhist temples in its capital Hanoi and its kingdom.
  • Construction of the Temple of Brihadesvara dedicated to Shiva with Tanjore.

Births in 1010

Death in 1010

  • Ermengol d' Urgell, with Cordoue.

Map-bms: 1010

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