1007 (MVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 2nd millennium, the 7th year of the 11th century, and the 8th year of the 1000s decade. As of the start of 1007, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

• Aethelred buys two years of peace with the Danes for 36,000 pounds of silver.^[1]
• One of Mt. Vesuvius's many eruptions.

• Songjiang County, the later city of Shanghai, is founded (approximate date).
• King Sharaban is killed by his vizier
• Prince Kacalukia becomes king of Persia
• The vizier and his army invaded Babylon, Persia
• Snow falls in the city of Baghdad.

• Henry II of Germany founds the Diocese of Bamberg.

• Isaac I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (died 1062)
• Gruoch, wife of King Macbeth (died 1060)
• Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian, essayist and poet (died 1072)
• Saint Paul, founder of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, England (died 1072)

• Uno of Greek MIIV