Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev
Yaroslav builds Rus' chief church on the model of Constantinople
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Yaroslav the Wise founded the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, the chief church of Rus', named after Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. Inside survive 11th-century mosaics and frescoes, including a portrait of Yaroslav's family and graffiti that tell historians about daily life.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 1025 Avicenna's Canon of Medicine — 12 years earlier
- 1054 East–West Schism — 17 years later
Asia
- 1044 First gunpowder formulas in the Wujing Zongyao — 7 years later
- 1054 Supernova SN 1054 — 17 years later
Americas
- 1021 Norse in North America — 16 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (aged 57)
- Yaroslav the Wise (aged 59)
- Edward the Confessor (aged 34)
- William the Conqueror (aged 9)
- Al-Biruni (aged 64)
- Conrad II (aged 47)
- Henry I (aged 29)
- Henry III (aged 21)
- Iziaslav I (aged 13)
- Vsevolod I (aged 7)