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Calendar year February 2011 1006 1006 right|SN 1006 supernova remnant (2008)|300px|thumb Year 1006 (MVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe Summer – An Arab Saracen fleet appears before Pisa, but departs again. The Pisans take their fleet to sea and chase the Arabs down to Southern Italy where, in the Battle of Reggio Calabria, the Pisan fleet defeats the Arabs. Summer–Autumn – Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard raid south-eastern England from the Isle of Wight to Reading in the Thames Valley where they overwinter at the Wallingford river crossing.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century London 47–48 0-7126-5616-2 Brian Boru visits Ulster, and remains unchallenged. Oceania A major eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano on Java causes devastation throughout the centre of the island (which it covers with volcanic ash) and to the Javanese Hindu Mataram kingdom.http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/merapi/ A history of Merapi 2007-02-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20070208030138/http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/merapi/ 2007-02-08 dead By topic Astronomy April 30 – The brightest supernova ever recorded, SN 1006, occurs in the constellation of Lupus. It is observed and described in China, Japan, Iraq, Egypt, and Europe and possibly depicted in North American rock art. Modern astronomers now consider its distance at about 7,200 light-years. The supernova provides enough light to read by on a night with a dark moon.Murdin, Paul; Murdin, Lesley (1985). Supernovae. Cambridge University Press. pp. 14–16. 052130038X. Births October 23 – Wen Yanbo, grand chancellor (d. 1097) Al-Lakhmi, Fatimid scholar and jurist (d. 1085) Constantine X, Byzantine emperor (d. 1067) Ísleifur Gissurarson, Icelandic bishop (d. 1080) Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Persian Sufi poet (d. 1088) Deaths February 13 – Fulcran, bishop of Lodève (France) July 21 – Gisela of Burgundy, duchess of Bavaria December 26 – Gao Qiong, Chinese general (b. 935) Ælfhelm of York, ealdorman (dux) of Northumbria Azon the Venerable (or Atso), French prelate Fiachra Ua Focarta, abbot of Clonfert (Ireland) Giovanni Orseolo, Venetian nobleman (b. 981) Ibn Marzuban, Persian official and physician Maud of Normandy, French noblewoman Olaf the Peacock, Icelandic merchant Sherira Gaon, Jewish spiritual leader Cenwulf, bishop of Winchester (approximate date) References