Russkaya Pravda of Yaroslav the Wise
Fines replace blood feuds in Rus' first written law code
The oldest part of Rus' law, the 'Pravda of Yaroslav', is traditionally linked to Yaroslav the Wise and dated to around 1016. Russkaya Pravda restricted blood feud and introduced a system of monetary fines.
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While Basil II was finishing off Bulgaria at Kleidion (1014), Rus' was getting its first law code, the Russkaya Pravda (1016).
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- c. 1000 Stephen I, first king of Hungary — 16 years earlier
Middle East
- 1025 Avicenna's Canon of Medicine — 9 years later
Africa
- c. 1000 Extinction of the elephant birds — 16 years earlier
- 1006 Supernova SN 1006 — 10 years earlier
Asia
- c. 1010 The Tale of Genji — 6 years earlier
Americas
- 1021 Norse in North America — 5 years later
Alive at the time
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (aged 36)
- Ferdowsi (aged 76)
- Æthelred the Unready (aged 50)
- Leif Erikson (aged 46)
- Yaroslav the Wise (aged 38)
- Cnut the Great (aged 21)
- Edward the Confessor (aged 13)
- Sei Shōnagon (aged 50)
- Robert II the Pious (aged 44)
- Al-Biruni (aged 43)