1004

Events 
 By place 
 Africa 
 Disease and famine in North Africa.Gilbert Meynier (2010) L'Algérie cœur du Maghreb classique. De l'ouverture islamo-arabe au repli (658-1518). Paris: La Découverte; pp.47.

 Asia 
 December – The Samanid dynasty ends in Bokhara.
 The Liao Dynasty starts a battle against the Song Dynasty. They meet near Shanyang, north of the Song capital of Kaifeng.
 Battle of Shanzhou: The Liao Dynasty general Xiao Talin is killed by a Song Chinese crossbow sniper.

 Europe 
 May 14 – Henry II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor at Pavia. A fight between his German companions and the Pavese becomes a full-scale battle.
 Henry II starts war against Boleslav of Poland. It lasts until 1018.
 Boleslaus I of Poland loses Bohemia. He had become duke the previous year. He is succeeded as duke of Bohemia by Jaromir.
 Sancho III becomes king of Navarre, Aragon and Castille.
 Sweyn I of Denmark destroys Norwich.
 Aberdeen becomes a bishopric.
 Arabs sack Pisa.
 The troops of the vizir Al-Mansur sack the Catalan city of Manresa.
 Pope John XVIII (1004–1009).

 Births 
 Abdallah ibn Al-Aftas (approximate date) (d. 1060)
 Goda of England (d. 1055)

 Deaths 
 November 13 – Abbon of Fleury
 Adelaide of Aquitaine, wife of Hugh Capet
 Erik the Red (or 1003) (b. 950)
 Li Jiqian, Tangut jiedushi who ruled the new Western Xia Dynasty in northwestern China (b. 963)

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