1007
Year 1007 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
England
- King Æthelred the Unready pays the Danish Vikings a sum of 36,000 pounds of silver to stop further invasions.
Ireland
- The Book of Kells is stolen from the Abbey of Kells.
Japan
- January 1 - Imperial Princess Shushi is granted the title Ippon Shinno.
- January 29 - Ranking ceremony of Murasaki Shikibu – as a renowned writer and lady-in-waiting, tutor of Empress Shōshi, she is elevated to the highest position in the palace below the empress.
- April - Imperial Prince Tomohira receives the title nihon.
By topic
Religion
- November 1 - King Henry II of Germany founds the Diocese of Bamberg during a synod held in Frankfurt.
- Ælfheah of Canterbury travels to Rome to receive his pallium – symbol of his status as an archbishop – from Pope John XVIII.
- The Keraites, a Turco-Mongolian tribe, are converted to Nestorianism.
Births
- Emeric, Hungarian prince and co-heir
- Gervais de Château-du-Loir, French nobleman
- Giselbert, count of Luxembourg
- Hugh Magnus, king of France
- Ibn Sidah, Andalusian linguist and lexicographer
- Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor
- Maitripada, Indian Buddhist philosopher
- Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and poet
- Peter Damian, cardinal-bishop of Ostia
- Welf III, duke of Carinthia
Deaths
- February 27 - Ælfwaru, English noblewoman
- March 20 - Abu Rakwa, Andalusian Umayyad prince
- July 21 - Gisela of Burgundy, duchess of Bavaria
- October 31 - Heriger, abbot of Lobbes
- Attilanus, bishop of Zamora
- Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, Persian poet
- Guo, empress of the Song Dynasty
- Manjutakin, Fatimid general and governor
- Maslama al-Majriti, Andalusian chemist
- Pelayo Rodríguez, count of León
- Sebastian, archbishop of Esztergom
- Urraca Fernández, Galician queen