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1025| 1000–1100 | Europe [sports] | ‘Tables’, or backgammon, is introduced to Europe by the Arabs (or reintroduced, as it is similar in name and appearance to the Roman game Tabula). It becomes extremely popular over the next few centuries. The name ‘backgammon’ is first used in the mid-17th century. | | c. 1025 | Italy [musical theory] | The Italian writer Guido d'Arezzo publishes his musical treatise Micrologus de disciplina artis musicae/Short Discourse on the Discipline of the Art of Music. He establishes a system of precise pitch notation through the introduction of a four-line stave and the ut-re-mi-fa-so-la names for notes. | | 17 June 1025 | Poland [births and deaths] | Boleslaw I Chrobry (the Brave), first king of Poland 1024–25 who made Poland a major European state, dies at Gniezno, Poland (c. 58). | | 15 December 1025 | Byzantine Empire [political events] | When the Byzantine emperor Basil II the Bulgarslayer dies without an heir, his brother, Constantine VIII, already co-emperor, becomes sole emperor. |
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