1010

1010 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1010; MX
Ab urbe condita	1763
Armenian calendar	459; ԹՎ ՆԾԹ
Assyrian calendar	5760
Balinese saka calendar	931–932
Bengali calendar	416–417
Berber calendar	1960
English Regnal year	N/A
Buddhist calendar	1554
Burmese calendar	372
Byzantine calendar	6518–6519
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster); 3707 or 3500; — to —; 庚戌年 (Metal Dog); 3708 or 3501
Coptic calendar	726–727
Discordian calendar	2176
Ethiopian calendar	1002–1003
Hebrew calendar	4770–4771
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1066–1067
- Shaka Samvat	931–932
- Kali Yuga	4110–4111
Holocene calendar	11010
Igbo calendar	10–11
Iranian calendar	388–389
Islamic calendar	400–401
Japanese calendar	Kankō 7; (寛弘７年)
Javanese calendar	912–913
Julian calendar	1010; MX
Korean calendar	3343
Minguo calendar	902 before ROC; 民前902年
Nanakshahi calendar	−458
Seleucid era	1321/1322 AG
Thai solar calendar	1552–1553
Tibetan calendar	ས་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་; (female Earth-Bird); 1136 or 755 or −17; — to —; ལྕགས་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་; (male Iron-Dog); 1137 or 756 or −16

Events

The Lý dynasty is established in Vietnam (or 1009), and moves the capital to Thăng Long (modern-day Hanoi).
Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: The Goryeo king is unseated in a revolt, resulting in an invasion by the Liao dynasty, and the burning of the Korean capital Gaegyeong.
Song Zhun of Song dynasty China completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, an enormous atlas of China that is written and illustrated in 1,556 chapters, showing maps of each region, city, town, and village (the atlas took 39 years to complete).
In the Chola dynasty of southern India, the first votes are celebrated by adding a ballot in an urn.

January – Fujiwara no Kenshi (daughter of Michinaga) is married to the imperial heir Crown Prince Okisada.
February 14 – On the death of Fujiwara no Korechika his daughter, the poet Fujiwara no Chikako, becomes a lady-in-waiting to Empress Shōshi.
Emperor Ichijō wants to retire – the influential statesman Fujiwara no Michinaga supports Crown Prince Okisada (now his son-in-law), who will be the successor, but the emperor prefers his eldest son by the late Empress Teishi, Prince Atsuyasu, who has been raised by Empress Shōshi, who also supports her stepson, leading to conflict at court.

Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America (approximate date).

June 2 – Fitna of al-Andalus – Battle of Aqbat al-Bakr: The Caliphate of Córdoba is defeated. Allied to Muslim rebels, Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona sacks Córdoba,^[2] and Hisham II the Nephast is restored as Umayyad caliph of Córdoba, succeeding Muhammad II al-Mahdi.
The Russian city of Yaroslavl is founded, as an outpost of the principality of Rostov Veliky.
The fortified city of Fiesole in Italy is captured and destroyed by the people of nearby Florence.^[3]
Swedish king Olof Skötkonung gives city rights to Sigtuna.^[4]

The construction of 217 ft (66 m) tall Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur (a city now in Tamil Nadu, India) is completed during the Chola dynasty, and at about this time the wall painting Rajaraja I and His Teacher

March 8 – Persian poet Ferdowsi finishes writing the Shahnameh (Book of Kings), which will be regarded as the national epic of the greater Iranian culture.
Lady Murasaki writes The Tale of Genji in Japanese (approximate date).
Beowulf is written anonymously in Old English (approximate date).

Eilmer of Malmesbury in England attempts flight in a glider of his own construction.

^ Lamb 2012.
^ Boissonade 1934.
^ Bokody, Péter (2022). "Images of Wartime Sexual Violence in the Chronicles of Giovanni Villani and Giovanni Sercambi*". Renaissance Studies. 36 (4): 573. doi:10.1111/rest.12768. ISSN 0269-1213.
^ Barbara Højlund & Frederik Schildt Nabe-Nielsen. "Sigtuna in Sweden". vikingeskibsmuseet.dk. Retrieved August 20, 2025.

Lamb, H. H. (2012) [1977]. Climate: Present, Past and Future: Climatic History and the Future. Vol. 2. London: Methuen and Co. / Routledge. ISBN 978-0415682237.