1007

Year 1007 (MVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

England

 * King Æthelred the Unready pays the Danish Vikings a sum of 36,000 pounds of silver (Danegeld) to stop further invasions.

Ireland

 * The Book of Kells is stolen from the Abbey of Kells.

Japan

 * January 1 (New Year’s Day) – Imperial Princess Shushi is granted the title Ippon Shinno (first rank princess).
 * January 29 – Ranking ceremony of Murasaki Shikibu – as a renowned writer and lady-in-waiting, tutor of Empress Shōshi, she is elevated to the highest position in the palace below the empress.
 * April – Imperial Prince Tomohira receives the title nihon (second rank prince).

Religion

 * November 1 – King Henry II of Germany founds the Diocese of Bamberg during a synod held in Frankfurt.
 * Ælfheah of Canterbury travels to Rome to receive his pallium – symbol of his status as an archbishop – from Pope John XVIII.
 * The Keraites, a Turco-Mongolian tribe, are converted to Nestorianism (a sect of Christianity).

Births

 * Emeric, Hungarian prince and co-heir (approximate date)
 * Gervais de Château-du-Loir, French nobleman (d. 1067)
 * Giselbert, count of Luxembourg (approximate date)
 * Hugh Magnus (Hugues le Grand), king of France (d. 1025)
 * Ibn Sidah, Andalusian linguist and lexicographer (d. 1066)
 * Isaac I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (approximate date)
 * Maitripada, Indian Buddhist philosopher (d. 1085)
 * Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and poet (d. 1072)
 * Peter Damian, cardinal-bishop of Ostia (d. 1073)
 * Welf III, duke of Carinthia (approximate date)

Deaths

 * February 27 – Ælfwaru, English noblewoman
 * March 20 – Abu Rakwa, Andalusian Umayyad prince
 * July 21 – Gisela of Burgundy, duchess of Bavaria
 * October 31 – Heriger, abbot of Lobbes (Belgium)
 * Attilanus, bishop of Zamora (Spain) (b. 937)
 * Badi' al-Zaman al-Hamadani, Persian poet (b. 969)
 * Guo, empress of the Song Dynasty (b. 975)
 * Manjutakin, Fatimid general and governor
 * Maslama al-Majriti, Andalusian chemist
 * Pelayo Rodríguez, count (comes) of León
 * Sebestyén, archbishop of Esztergom
 * Urraca Fernández, Galician queen