1003 - Definition and Overview

Events

• Sweyn I of Denmark begins his first invasion of England.
• Humbert I becomes the first count of Savoy.
• King Robert II of France invades Burgundy, but fails.
• Pope John XVII succeeds Pope Silvester II.
• Pope John XVIII succeeds Pope John XVII.
• Boleslaus I of Poland becomes duke of Bohemia and Moravia.

Births

• aproximate birth year Edward the Confessor (d. 1066)

Deaths

• May 12 - Pope Silvester II
• November 6 - Pope John XVII
• Erik the Red (approximate date, maybe 1004) (b. 950)
• Philotheos of Alexandria, Coptic Patriarch