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1004 (MIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1004th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 4th year of the 2nd millennium, the 4th year of the 11th century, and the 5th year of the 1000s decade. As of the start of 1004, the Gregorian calendar was 6 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

• Disease and famine in North Africa.^[1]

• December – The Samanid dynasty ends in Bokhara.
• The Liao Dynasty starts a battle against the Song Dynasty. They meet near Shanyang, north of the Song capital of Kaifeng.
• Battle of Shanzhou: The Liao Dynasty general Xiao Talin is killed by a Song Chinese crossbow sniper.

• May 14 – Henry II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor at Pavia. A fight between his German companions and the Pavese becomes a full-scale battle.
• Henry II starts war against Boleslav of Poland. It lasts until 1018.
• Boleslaus I of Poland loses Bohemia. He had become duke the previous year. He is succeeded as duke of Bohemia by Jaromir.
• Sancho III becomes king of Navarre, Aragon and Castille.
• Sweyn I of Denmark destroys Norwich.
• Aberdeen becomes a bishopric.
• Arabs sack Pisa.
• The troops of the vizir Al-Mansur sack the Catalan city of Manresa.^[2]
• Pope John XVIII (1004–1009).

• Abdallah ibn Al-Aftas (approximate date) (d. 1060)
• Goda of England (d. 1055)

• November 13 – Abbon of Fleury
• Adelaide of Aquitaine, wife of Hugh Capet
• Erik the Red (or 1003) (b. 950)
• Li Jiqian, Tangut jiedushi who ruled the new Western Xia Dynasty in northwestern China (b. 963)