High Middle Ages · North America · Exploration
1000
Leif Erikson makes landfall in Vinland
1000
Blown off course from Greenland, the Norse captain stepped ashore on a wooded coast where wild grapes hung thick enough to name the place. Archaeologists would one day uncover the sod houses at L'Anse aux Meadows, the first proven European settlement in the Americas, predating Columbus by nearly five centuries and rewriting the story of transatlantic contact.
In context
Also in 1000 (12 other events on record)
- Murasaki Shikibu begins the Tale of Genji · East Asia · Culture
- Stephen crowned first King of Hungary · Europe · Politics
- Polynesians settle the last Pacific islands · Oceania · Exploration
- Cahokia begins its great expansion · North America · Culture
- Song Dynasty advances in rice cultivation · East Asia · Technology
- Gerbert of Aurillac reigns as Sylvester II · Europe · Science
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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