1006

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	970s 980s 990s – 1000s – 1010s 1020s 1030s
Years:	1003 1004 1005 – 1006 – 1007 1008 1009

1006 by topic
Lists of leaders
State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

1006 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1006 MVI
Ab urbe condita	1759
Armenian calendar	455 ԹՎ ՆԾԵ
Assyrian calendar	5756
Bengali calendar	413
Berber calendar	1956
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1550
Burmese calendar	368
Byzantine calendar	6514–6515
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 3702 or 3642 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 3703 or 3643
Coptic calendar	722–723
Discordian calendar	2172
Ethiopian calendar	998–999
Hebrew calendar	4766–4767
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1062–1063
- Shaka Samvat	928–929
- Kali Yuga	4107–4108
Holocene calendar	11006
Igbo calendar	6–7
Iranian calendar	384–385
Islamic calendar	396–397
Japanese calendar	Kankō 3 (寛弘３年)
Julian calendar	1006 MVI
Korean calendar	3339
Minguo calendar	906 before ROC 民前906年
Seleucid era	1317/1318 AG
Thai solar calendar	1548–1549

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Year 1006 (MVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

A major eruption of Mount Merapi volcano covers all of central Java with volcanic ash, caused devastation throughout central Java, and destroyed a Hindu kingdom on the island of Java.^[1]

May 1 – The brightest supernova ever recorded, SN 1006, occurs in the constellation of Lupus. It is observed and described in China, Japan, the Middle East, Europe, and elsewhere. The records of the event were suppressed in some western countries. The Supernova provided enough light to read by on a night with a dark moon.