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.