1004

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	970s  980s  990s  – 1000s –  1010s  1020s  1030s
Years:	1001 1002 1003 – 1004 – 1005 1006 1007

Henry II is crowned King of Italy at Pavia.

Year 1004 (MIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.

Events

By place

Africa

• Disease and famine in North Africa.

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)