1007

Year 1007 (MVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	970s  980s  990s  – 1000s –  1010s  1020s  1030s
Years:	1004 1005 1006 – 1007 – 1008 1009 1010

Archdiocese of Bamberg

Europe

• Aethelred buys two years of peace with the Danes for 36,000 pounds of silver.
• One of Mt. Vesuvius's many eruptions.

Asia

• Songjiang County, the later city of Shanghai, is founded (approximate date).
• King Sharaban is killed by his vizier
• Prince Kacalukia becomes king of Persia
• The vizier and his army invaded Babylon, Persia
• Snow falls in the city of Baghdad.

Religion

• Henry II of Germany founds the Diocese of Bamberg.

Births

• Isaac I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (died 1062)
• Gruoch, wife of King Macbeth (died 1060)
• Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian, essayist and poet (died 1072)
• Saint Paul, founder of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, England (died 1072)

Deaths

• Uno of Greek MIIV