1008

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	10th century – 11th century – 12th century
Decades:	970s 980s 990s – 1000s – 1010s 1020s 1030s
Years:	1005 1006 1007 – 1008 – 1009 1010 1011

1008 by topic
Lists of leaders
State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments

1008 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1008 MVIII
Ab urbe condita	1761
Armenian calendar	457 ԹՎ ՆԾԷ
Assyrian calendar	5758
Bengali calendar	415
Berber calendar	1958
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1552
Burmese calendar	370
Byzantine calendar	6516–6517
Chinese calendar	丁未年 (Fire Goat) 3704 or 3644 — to — 戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 3705 or 3645
Coptic calendar	724–725
Discordian calendar	2174
Ethiopian calendar	1000–1001
Hebrew calendar	4768–4769
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1064–1065
- Shaka Samvat	930–931
- Kali Yuga	4109–4110
Holocene calendar	11008
Igbo calendar	8–9
Iranian calendar	386–387
Islamic calendar	398–399
Japanese calendar	Kankō 5 (寛弘５年)
Julian calendar	1008 MVIII
Korean calendar	3341
Minguo calendar	904 before ROC 民前904年
Seleucid era	1319/1320 AG
Thai solar calendar	1550–1551

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Year 1008 (MVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

Oldest known mention of the city of Gundelfingen.
Olav Haraldsson, the future king of Norway, lands on Saaremaa Island in Estonia, wins a battle there and forces the inhabitants to pay tribute.
Georgia is unified under King Bagrat III.
Mohammed II succeeds Hisham II as Caliph of Cordoba.

The Egyptian Fatimid Empire under Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah sends the sea captain Domiyat on a tributary mission to Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, in order to reestablish trade relations between Egypt and China.
Battle of Peshawar: The Turkic Ghaznavid armies defeat a Hindu confederacy.