1000 facts for kids

Millennium:	1st millennium
Centuries:	9th century – 10th century – 11th century
Decades:	970s  980s  990s  – 1000s –  1010s  1020s  1030s
Years:	997 998 999 – 1000 – 1001 1002 1003

Centuries:	9th century · 10th century · 11th century
Decades:	970s 980s 990s 1000s 1010s 1020s 1030s
Years:	997 998 999 1000 1001 1002 1003

1000 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1000 M
Ab urbe condita	1753
Armenian calendar	449 ԹՎ ՆԽԹ
Assyrian calendar	5750
Balinese saka calendar	921–922
Bengali calendar	407
Berber calendar	1950
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1544
Burmese calendar	362
Byzantine calendar	6508–6509
Chinese calendar	己亥年 (Earth Pig) 3696 or 3636     — to — 庚子年 (Metal Rat) 3697 or 3637
Coptic calendar	716–717
Discordian calendar	2166
Ethiopian calendar	992–993
Hebrew calendar	4760–4761
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1056–1057
- Shaka Samvat	921–922
- Kali Yuga	4100–4101
Holocene calendar	11000
Igbo calendar	0–1
Iranian calendar	378–379
Islamic calendar	390–391
Japanese calendar	Chōhō 2 (長保２年)
Javanese calendar	901–902
Julian calendar	1000 M
Korean calendar	3333
Minguo calendar	912 before ROC 民前912年
Nanakshahi calendar	−468
Seleucid era	1311/1312 AG
Thai solar calendar	1542–1543
Tibetan calendar	阴土猪年 (female Earth-Pig) 1126 or 745 or −27     — to — 阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 1127 or 746 or −26

1000 (M) in the Gregorian Calendar was the last year of the 10th century and the 1st millennium in the Christian era ending on December 31. According to the then used Julian Calendar, 1000 AD was a leap year starting on Monday. In the Gregorian Calendar (not invented at the time) the year would have been a common year starting on Wednesday.

It is one of only seven years to use just one Roman numeral. The seven are 1 AD (I), 5 AD (V), 10 AD (X), 50 AD (L), 100 AD (C), 500 AD (D), and 1000 AD (M).

Events

• Leif Ericson becomes the first European to visit America
• Gunpowder is invented in China.
• Dhaka, Bangladesh, is started.