Around 1000CE

Which events happened around a 1000 years ago (give or take) that you can remember without looking in a History book? (CE is Current Era and apparently is the current version of AD.)

Here is a list of historial dates from the class:

1066 Battle of Hastings
1095 The First Cursade (The last cursade was in 1399).
1215 Magna Carta

And a list of other items

Medieval Ages perhaps 500/600-1500.
Methuselah aged parents (Methuselah live for 969 years or so).

There are a few books out on what Life was like 1000 years ago. There are many more books about the century than about the millennieum.

The Year 1000 : What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium : An Englishman's World From the review: Writing in a breezy, often humorous style, Lacey and Danziger draw on the medieval Julius Work Calendar, a document detailing everyday life around A.D. 1000, to reconstruct the spirit and reality of the era. Light though their touch is, they've done their homework, and they take the reader on a well-documented and enjoyable month-by-month tour through a single year, touching on such matters as religious belief, superstition, medicine, cuisine, agriculture, and politics, as well as contemporary ideas of the self and society.
The Last Apocalypse : Europe at the Year 1000 A.D From the review: Reston portrays A.D. 999 as a profound turning point for mankind, mapping out the fate of each country as the Christian kingdoms, unified in belief, brutally conquered and imposed the will of Christianity upon heathen Europe.