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Calendar year
Henry II is crowned as
King of Germany .
Year 1002 (
MII ) was a
common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
By place
Europe
January 23 – Emperor
Otto III dies, at the age of 22, of
smallpox at
Castle of Paterno (near
Rome ) after a 19-year reign. He leaves no son, nor a surviving brother who can succeed by
hereditary right to the
throne .
[1] Otto is buried in
Aachen Cathedral alongside the body of
Charlemagne .
February 15 – At an assembly at
Pavia of
Lombard nobles and secondi milites (the minor nobles),
Arduin of Ivrea (grandson of former King
Berengar II ) is restored to his domains and crowned as
King of Italy in the
Basilica of San Michele Maggiore . Arduin is supported by
Arnulf II , archbishop of
Milan .
June 7 –
Henry II , a cousin of Otto III, is elected and crowned as
King of Germany by Archbishop
Willigis at
Mainz . Henry does not recognise the coronation of Arduin.
Otto of Worms withdraws his nomination for the title of
Holy Roman Emperor and receives the
Duchy of Carinthia (modern
Austria ) - Henry is the first King to be elected away from the
Cathedral of Aachen since the tradition was begun by
Otto I in
936 .
July –
Battle of Calatañazor : Christian armies led by
Alfonso V of León ,
Sancho III of Pamplona and
Sancho García of Castile , defeat the invading
Saracens under
Al-Mansur , the
de facto ruler of
Al-Andalus .
August 8 – Al-Mansur dies after a 24-year reign and is succeeded by his son
Abd al-Malik al-Muzaffar as ruler (
hajib ) of the
Umayyad
Caliphate of Córdoba (modern
Spain ).
October 15 –
Henry I , duke of
Burgundy , dies and is succeeded by his stepson,
Otto-William . He inherits the duchy; this is disputed by King
Robert II of France ("the Pious").
Fall – A revolt organized by
Bohemian nobles of the rivalling
Vršovci clan, forces Duke
Boleslaus III ("the Red") to flee to
Germany . He is succeeded by
Vladivoj (until
1003 ).
British Isles
Arabian Empire
Asia
By topic
Religion
Births
Deaths
January 8 –
Wulfsige III , bishop of
Sherborne
January 23 –
Otto III , Holy Roman Emperor (b.
980 )
April 23 –
Æscwig , bishop of
Dorchester
April 30 –
Eckard I ,
margrave of Meissen
May 6 –
Ealdwulf , archbishop of
York
August 8 –
Al-Mansur , Umayyad
vizier and
de facto ruler (b.
938 )
October 15 –
Henry I , duke of Burgundy (b.
946 )
November 13
Athanasius IV , Syrian patriarch of
Antioch
Domonkos I , archbishop of
Esztergom
Gisela , French princess (approximate date)
Godfrey I (the Prisoner ), Frankish nobleman
John the Iberian , Georgian
monk (approximate date)
Kisai Marvazi , Persian author and
poet (b.
953 )
Rogneda of Polotsk , Grand Princess of
Kiev (b.
962 )
Sa'id al-Dawla , Hamdanid emir of
Aleppo (
Syria )
Sancho Ramírez , king of
Viguera (approximate date)
References