Hi John and Doves,

As I dug into my history timeline, with 1000BC King David, and pondering if anything happened in 1000-1033AD, I
got interested in this time period.

Below excerpts from a number of different sources


With the approach of the year 1000 (identified with the year of Jesus’ birth) and 1033 (with the crucifixion) dread anticipating the End of Days and for the Rapture accompanying Jesus Return gripped Europe:

"Manifold signs and prodigies came to pass in the world, some earlier and some later, about the thousandth year from our Lord's birth."

So wrote Radulfus Glaber, one of the few contemporary historians of the time. Certainly the period leading up to the year 1000 brought with it great expectation. And however many such events described by the monk were historical or fanciful (some present day historians describe Radulfus exaggerating and “over-dramatic”) it is nonetheless obvious that the approach of the year 1000 brought with it anticipation and apprehension and, when Jesus failed to appear, deep disappointment. The year 1033 similarly came and went. Still,

“there was a resurgence of apocalyptic fervor that the "End" was near. There was no shortage of prophets to predict a NEW date: The years 1186, 1229… 1492-4 were all examples of "predicted" dates… In looking for a "cause" as to why the End had NOT occurred, charismatic preachers traveled from town to town, preaching that before the Second Coming would occur that all unbelievers must first be removed from society.”

((Above is from below link))
https://www.jpost.com/blogs/the-jewish-problem---from-anti-judaism-to-anti-semitism/christian-insecurity-the-problem-of-the-second-coming-381034


((Next link))
A History of Palestine, 634-1099
Moshe Gil
The matter of the reconstruction of the walls of Jerusalem in 1033 and the earthquake of that year ,  ... on the eve of the Crusaders

Scarcity in Egypt...

Abraham b. Solomon Gaon b. Judah (in the 1040s???) complains of the scarcity of the pilgrims.

The Year was AH 424 which is December 1032
Earthquake in the year 425 (Jan 1034)
The city of Jericho turned upside down
Part of the chief Mosque and churches collapsed.
Buildings fell also in Acre, and the water of the sea withdrew from its port for a time.
(Some of the Jews in the city moved to the North. Letter complaining of "the noise of the Edom masses", that is the local
christians and the christian Pilgrims, and the "five fold mendacious voice voice, which never stops", that is, the Muslims and their
prayers.

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Major factors contributing to predictions of the imminent end of the world in 1058 (when 990 years from the Destruction of Jerusalem are
complete)

1036 / 1038 truce agreement with Byzantium.
the emporer would appoint a Patriarch in Jerusalam, and the christians would be permitted to rebuild all the churches destroyed during
fatim rule
Caliph Al Zahir.

Continuous years of drought AH 457-464 (AD 1065-1072) and compares them with the lean years of Joseph
In Egypt there was noone to work the land... because of the many armies and the cutting off of roads and sea-lanes.
Drought caused by the low level of the Nile in 447.(1065)
the distress started in 1057
the starvation and plagues of these years.
the price of wheat rose to ten dinars per...
Account of the end of the world : Wertheimer Battle....
the book of Zerubbabel

Damascus... cut off the jews water supply
taxes collected from them once a year ((1048)

tension palestine. . lighting system of the Dome of the Rock. .. collapsed in AH 452 (AD 1060), with its 500 tapers, and
everyone saw it as an evil omen.
It is interesting that the governor of Jerusalem at the time was a Karaite Jew. He was called al-katib al misri (the egyptian secretary)

Walls 1063.. christian quarter.. skirmishes between the christians and the muslims..
1068 severe earthquake shook Palestine.
Ramla.. the city was completely destroyed.
(Ramla between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv on the map, almost Tel aviv)
The sea withdrew a days distance from the coast, and many were drowned as they were busy collecting the fish that remained on the shore
when the sea suddenly surprised them by returning. It was also said that the water in the wells rose and that in Jerusalem, the Dome of the
Rock cracked, but settled back in its place of its own accord.

Rise of the Turkish tribes.. 1055 took over northern Syria as well as Baghdad.


https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/A_History_of_Palestine_634_1099/M0wUKoMJeccC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jerusalem+1033&pg=PA400&printsec=frontcover

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Various other links and notes

The expectation of the Kingdom of God, in the form of the imminent expectation, plays a strong role in emigration movements. Great masses of European Christians again and again set out for Palestine with a sense of finding there the land of their salvation and being present when Christ returns there to establish his Kingdom. Mass pilgrimages to Jerusalem took place in 1033 and again in 1064–65, and the Crusades can be seen as a form of pilgrimage whose participants held eschatological concerns. The peasants of the so-called “People’s Crusade” and the knights of the First Crusade were clearly motivated by apocalyptic anxieties, and Count Emicho of Flonheim, who led the massacres of the Jews in Germany, may have seen himself in the role of the Last Emperor. The eschatological strain of the Crusades can also be noted in the Crusade sermons of St. Bernard de Clairvaux in 1147, who kindled enthusiasm to liberate Jerusalem with reference to the pressing terminal dates of the end time.

A great number of the attempts undertaken to found radical Christian communities in North America may be viewed as anticipations of the coming Jerusalem. The emigration movement toward America was influenced by beliefs in eschatologically fixed dates (e.g., Columbus). Puritans who traveled to America in the 17th century and Quakers, Baptists, and Methodists in the 18th century believed that America was the “wilderness” promised in the Revelation to John. William Penn gave the name Philadelphia to the capital of the woodland areas ceded to him (1681) because he took up the idea of establishing the true church of the end time, represented by the Philadelphia community of the Revelation to John. The same influence holds true for the emigration of German revivalists of the 18th and early 19th centuries to Russia and Palestine. The “Friends of the Temple”—Swabians who went with Christoph Hoffmann to Palestine in 1866—and the Swabians, Franks, Hessians, and Bavarians, who after the Napoleonic Wars followed the call of Tsar Alexander I to Bessarabia, were all dominated by the idea of living in the end time and preparing themselves for the coming Kingdom of God. In Tsar Alexander I they saw the “eagle…as it flew in midheaven” (Revelation 8:13), which prepared the “recovery spot” for them in the East upon which Christ will descend.

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For the medieval Catholic, a visit to Jerusalem or Rome would have gained more remission of sin (through the granting of indulgences) than a journey to a lesser place. In North Africa, marabout shrines,  ...

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The Crusades initiated by Pope Urban II in 1095 allied elements of pilgrimage with chivalry and the gaining of booty. Before the final armed assault on Muslim-controlled Jerusalem in July 1099, the crusaders fasted and walked barefoot around the city. Priests carried relics and preached to the military pilgrims on the Mount of Olives.

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Jerusalem and its Temple site remained a refuse dump until the day Caliph Omar began to cleanse its refuse with his own ... After the three powerful earthquakes that rocked Jerusalem in 1016, 1033, and 1067, many died in the process.

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(((JERUSALEM Journey in 1860 or later - trip notes

Rebuild temple BC511
Savour born. A.M. 4000
70 years after the birth of christ, and 37 after his death, the Romans destroyed the city and burnt the temple.
In AD 136 Hadrian rebuilt it.

637 Omar ... Mosque.. threshing floor.. Dome of the Rock AH (year of the Hegira) 68
1099 Crusaders took possession of the Holy Places.. but  1187 Salah.. (took possesion) and 100,000 christians left Jerusalem.

((in 1840.. the city which anciently contained 150,000 souls, today numbers at most 21,000 not including Pilgrims and visitors.

I kneel on the grass and I pray and I weep
I am so thankful to God.
.. birth, life, passion and death of our beloved Master.
((1871 is the year))
Jesus Rode, Palm Sunday (AD 33)
This gate is always kept shut.

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At the time of the 1033 pilgrimage Jerusalem had yet to recover fully from the ravages of the Egyptian Fatimid caliph AlHakim, who in 1009 had ordered the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and other sacred sites in the ...

Duke ROberts short rule.
1034 Ducal authority, .. decision to go on Pilgrimage to Jerusalem at that point difficult to understand.
Despite the inherant dangers.. pilgrimage to the holy land was becoming increasingly popular in western christendom.
monks Burgundy.. urged them... network of contacts..
Ralph Glaber.. around AD1000 an immeasurable multitude of nobles and common folk took to the Pilgrimage road.
Inspired by stories from the book of Revelation which fortold the second coming of christ which would be in Jerusalem at the end of days
(widely interpreted as a Millenium)
.. did not return... attention then turned to 1033, a thousand years from Christs Crucifixion.
when there was another major Pilgrimage, which anticipated the second coming.
Glaber tells.. peasants, Merchants, Nobles.. streamed towards the Tomb in Jerusalem.
Pattern developing.. large Pilgrimage every 33  years or so.. there was one in 1064 and at the end of the century .. first crusade 1095-99
At the time of 1033, Jerusalem had yet to recover from the ravages of the Egyptian Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim, who in 1009 had ordered
the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and other sacred sites. .. The site of Christs tomb had been largely destroyed and only
the lower part of the cave structure survived.
.. tearing down of all christian churches, and the forced conversion to Islam of christians.

Normans were enthusiastic Pilgrims.. 1017
Forty Normans... 1017 Jerusalem..  returned to Salerno (near Naples) found the city beseiged by Saracens
Their souls were inflamed with a call to God. They threw themselves on the enemy .. put the rest to flight,
achieving a miraculous victory with the help of God... love of God and the christian faith. .. they refused any
reward and refused to remain in Salerno.

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(1009 tragically.. the jews.. driven from their homes.. very few found in the Roman world.

aspect of Millienium fervour ...growing disgust at the power of the church...
Demands for a return to the teaching of the gospels and the apostles.
appear at just this time.
.. soon these demand were declared heretical by the church and the 11th century sees the revival of systematic persecution by the church.
dozen clerics at Orleans challenged the priesthood.. died at the stake in 1022

Body of Mark the Evangelist was being venerated in Venice by the 9th century.

Outbreak of violence against the Jews in 1009 ..vulnerable to christian hostility...
In the 1090s there had been massacres pf the Jewish populations of several European cities by passing crusaders.

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The Collapse of the Eastern Mediterranean:
... who clearly claims that the reconstruction of the new wall began in early 1033, using stones taken from the churches ... caliph] Al-Zahir (1021-1036) began in this year (424/1033) to build the wall of the noble city of Jerusalem .

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The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectaton  ...

fear the end of the world, followed by a dramatic turnabout in 1033-34, when God and nature smiled upon humanity with clement ... The same year also saw an unprecedented mass of pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem, which prompted some ...

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... make much of the point because the Last Judgement motif is not particularly prominent in the tropes examined and because this particular one comes from Ademar of Chabannes whose life ended on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1033-1034 .

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Abbo of Fleury 994-996 several incidents of apocalyptic rumours..
sermon preached.. Paris.. as soon as the 1000 years complete, the Antichrist would arrive, and not long after the Last Judgement.

(Around 1000) dramatic new emphasis on the human Jesus .. he became an intensely historical figure .. enthusiasm of pilgrims for
walking in his footsteps.

March 25th retained its apocalyptic fascination for at least another three centuries.  .. next occured, in 1065, a huge pilgrimate
to Jerusalem.

A supernova spotted the world over in 1003-6, and in 1009-14
.. if year 1000 saw the release of the Antichrist, then one should expect his defeat three and a half years later.

devastating 3 year famine that drove people to
fear the end of the world, followed by a dramatic turnaround in 1033-34, when God and Nature smiled upon humanity
with clement skies and abundant harvests. This in turn, prokoked a wave of popular assemblies throughout France at which wildly
enthusiastic participants believed they were forming a covenant with God to bring his peace to earth. The same  year saw.. mass
of Pilgrims on the road to Jerusalem. .. speculate further on the approaching end.
Year 1033.
A rain of blood in Aquitaine in 1028 (by Jeromes chronology, one year before the millennium of the Passion) .. significance...
At least 4 texts testify to radical Peace councils attended by large crowds in 1032-33

..when the (1033) Millienial was completed, when the observance of Lent had been completed and Good Friday had come,
fiery armed troops were seen in the sky in many places, prodigious to behold, terrifying the hearts of those who gazed
in amazement.

Augustines discussion of whether the three and a half years would come before or after the thousand years.

The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectaton a

https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Apocalyptic_Year_1000/VksVFCHf778C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=jerusalem+1033&pg=PA256&printsec=frontcover