Vikings (Heritage Minute)
1000 · Resource
Norse sailors make landfall at L'Anse aux Meadows — Europeans in North America five centuries before Columbus. Historica Canada Heritage Minute, released 1992.
On these timelines: Heritage Minutes (Canada), Resources: Combined
Around 1000
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- William the Conqueror (1028)
- The Tale of Genji (1008)
- Almoravid Empire founded (1050)