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: Annual table century X ( - - )

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Years: 995 996 997 998 999 - 1000 -

Events:

• World-wide population: 300 million.
• is invented in China.
• Scandinavia, and turned to .
• Leif Erikson a arrives , calling it Vinland.

Births:

• Miguel Cerulario, Patriarch of .
• Constantino IX, Emperor of Bizancio.

Deaths:

• Olaf I of Norway, died in the battle of Svold.