| Year | Event |
| c. 1000 | Inca Empire expands in Peru |
| c. 1000 | Vikings reach America (Vinland) |
| c. 1000 | Iron Age settlement in Zimbabwe |
| 1014 | Vikings defeated in Ireland at Clontarf |
| 1016 | Canute made King of England |
| 1037 | Death of Avicenna |
| 1040 | Duncan, King of Scots, killed by Macbeth |
| c. 1050 | Invention of movable type in China |
| 1054 | Schism between Western and Eastern Christianity |
| 1065 | Consecration of Westminster Abbey |
| 1066 | Norman Conquest of England |
| 1086 | Domesday Book Completed |
| 1094 | El Cid defeats the Moors at Valencia |
| 1096 | First Crusade begins (to 1099) |
| 1099 | Church of Holy Sepulchre built in Jerusalem |
D. Crystal, The Cambridge Factfinder (Cambridge University Press, 1998)