The Karakhanids take Bukhara
A Turkic dynasty replaces a Persian one in Transoxiana
In 999 the Karakhanids entered Bukhara and the Samanid state collapsed. One of the first Turkic dynasties to embrace Islam, their era produced the Kutadgu Bilig poem and Mahmud al-Kashgari's dictionary, the first great works of Turkic literature.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1000 Stephen I, first king of Hungary — 1 year later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 988 Christianization of Kievan Rus' — 11 years earlier
Middle East
- 1010 Ferdowsi completes the Shahnameh — 11 years later
Africa
- c. 1000 Extinction of the elephant birds — 1 year later
- 1006 Supernova SN 1006 — 7 years later
Americas
- 1021 Norse in North America — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Vladimir the Great (aged 39)
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (aged 19)
- Ferdowsi (aged 59)
- Æthelred the Unready (aged 33)
- Leif Erikson (aged 29)
- Murasaki Shikibu (aged 26)
- Yaroslav the Wise (aged 21)
- Cnut the Great (aged 4)
- Sei Shōnagon (aged 33)
- Robert II the Pious (aged 27)