1006

1006 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1006; MVI
Ab urbe condita	1759
Armenian calendar	455; ԹՎ ՆԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5756
Balinese saka calendar	927–928
Bengali calendar	412–413
Berber calendar	1956
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1550
Burmese calendar	368
Byzantine calendar	6514–6515
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake); 3703 or 3496; — to —; 丙午年 (Fire Horse); 3704 or 3497
Coptic calendar	722–723
Discordian calendar	2172
Ethiopian calendar	998–999
Hebrew calendar	4766–4767
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1062–1063
- Shaka Samvat	927–928
- Kali Yuga	4106–4107
Holocene calendar	11006
Igbo calendar	6–7
Iranian calendar	384–385
Islamic calendar	396–397
Japanese calendar	Kankō 3; (寛弘３年)
Javanese calendar	908–909
Julian calendar	1006; MVI
Korean calendar	3339
Minguo calendar	906 before ROC; 民前906年
Nanakshahi calendar	−462
Seleucid era	1317/1318 AG
Thai solar calendar	1548–1549
Tibetan calendar	阴木蛇年; (female Wood-Snake); 1132 or 751 or −21; — to —; 阳火马年; (male Fire-Horse); 1133 or 752 or −20

Events

Summer – An Arab Saracen fleet appears before Pisa, but departs again. The Pisans take their fleet to sea and chase the Arabs down to Southern Italy where, in the Battle of Reggio Calabria, the Pisan fleet defeats the Arabs.
Summer–Autumn – Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard raid south-eastern England from the Isle of Wight to Reading in the Thames Valley where they overwinter at the Wallingford river crossing.^[1]
Brian Boru visits Ulster, and remains unchallenged.

A major eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano on Java causes devastation throughout the centre of the island (which it covers with volcanic ash) and to the Javanese Hindu Mataram Kingdom.^[2]

April 30 – The brightest supernova ever recorded, SN 1006, occurs in the constellation of Lupus. It is observed and described in China, Japan, Iraq, Egypt, and Europe and possibly depicted in North American rock art. Modern astronomers now consider its distance at about 7,200 light-years. The supernova provides enough light to read by on a night with a dark moon.^[3]

^ Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century. pp. 47–48. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ "A history of Merapi". Archived from the original on February 8, 2007. Retrieved February 20, 2007.
^ Murdin, Paul; Murdin, Lesley (1985). Supernovae. Cambridge University Press. pp. 14–16. ISBN 052130038X.

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