Chola invasion of Srivijaya
An Indian fleet weakens a maritime empire on Sumatra
The fleet of the South Indian Chola empire under Rajendra I raided the cities of the maritime empire of Srivijaya on Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. The raid weakened Srivijaya and showed the reach of Indian power in Southeast Asia.
Wikipedia (English) · 11th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1000 Stephen I, first king of Hungary — 25 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1037 Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev — 12 years later
Middle East
- 1025 Avicenna's Canon of Medicine — same year
Africa
- c. 1000 Extinction of the elephant birds — 25 years earlier
- 1006 Supernova SN 1006 — 19 years earlier
Americas
- 1021 Norse in North America — 4 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (aged 45)
- Yaroslav the Wise (aged 47)
- Cnut the Great (aged 30)
- Edward the Confessor (aged 22)
- Sei Shōnagon (aged 59)
- Robert II the Pious (aged 53)
- Al-Biruni (aged 52)
- Conrad II (aged 35)
- Henry I (aged 17)
- Henry III (aged 9)