1007: Most boring year EVAR!

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1007 (in its entirety):

Events

Aethelred buys two years of peace with the Danes for 36,000 pounds of silver.

Songjiang County, the later city of Shanghai, is founded (approximate date).

Henry II of Germany founds the diocese of Bamberg.

Births

Isaac I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor

Gruoch, wife of king Macbeth

Deaths

Al Madshritti, mathematician

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 19 November 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

But Lady Macbeth was born! That's very interesting.

― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 November 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, I've found a better one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/956

Deaths

April 8 - Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 19 November 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

And apparently nothing happened in 957.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/957

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 19 November 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

... and you try to tell kids that today and they don't believe you

― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

999 looks a little drab, 1004 wasn't so spectacular unless you count Norwich being destroyed.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

957 was an incredible time for pop music, with Wilf The Idiot of Flax Bourton fashioning a primitive lute, his guerilla gigs in local enchanted glades causing scores of chastity-intact maidens to suddenly come over all funny.

― Squire Paul Of The Moore Ley (blueski), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, Something happened in 957! History revisionism at work...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely that makes 1004 one the best years EVAH!? xpost

― My Son Calls Another Man Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 19 November 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

1007 was a great year for sunsets, walking on the beach and dreaming in front of the fire.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Preferably with the Vikings burning in it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh 1007 was interesting all right. So interesting, that they've had to cover it all up.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, Something happened in 957!

The George Harrison song? Naw, dude, that didn't drop until 1969. Good tune, though.

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe it's a historical cleansing of the palate.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Thursday, 25 November 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

905's entry just says "Alternate meaning: Area code 905"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

from 762:

Deaths

Chinese poet Li Po, the Poet Immortal. He was said to have drowned in the Yangtze river, having fallen from his boat while drunkenly trying to embrace the moon.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

this is awesome!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 25 November 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometime in the last couple years, Wikipedia became my favorite thing on the internet -- it's amazing how you can look something up almost at random (when I'm bored or waiting for an email or whatever, I'll type in some term related to something recent -- "Thanksgiving" or "pilgrims," let's say) and just follow related entries around for the rest of the day. I'd totally forgotten about the year-by-year bit, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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