High Middle Ages · Europe · Culture

1013

Thietmar of Merseburg writes his Chronicle

1013

The German bishop completed his invaluable chronicle of Ottonian and early Salian history, recording everything from imperial politics to Polish expansion to the customs of pagan Slavs on his eastern frontier. His frank and gossipy prose preserved details of early eleventh-century life that no other source bothered to set down on parchment.

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Also in 1013 (3 other events on record)

Sweyn Forkbeard conquers England · Europe · War
Al-Biruni measures the earth · Central Asia · Science
Suryavarman I expands Khmer Empire into Thailand · Southeast Asia · Politics

Before and after in Europe

Before: April 19, 1012: Martyrdom of Alphege
After: February 3, 1014: Death of Sweyn Forkbeard

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1011: Swahili coast mosques built in coral stone
After: 1020: Al-Biruni publishes his India

Era

High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.