1000s in England
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Events from the 1000s in England.
Incumbents
Monarch – Æthelred the Unready
Events
- 1000
- English fleet invades the Isle of Man.[1]
- English invasion of Cumbria fails.[1]
- Heroic poem The Battle of Maldon composed.[1]
- 1001
- First Battle of Alton: English fail to repel Viking raiders.
- Battle of Pinhoe (Devon): English fail to repel Viking raiders.
- Edward the Martyr canonised.
- Ælfgar is consecrated Bishop of Elmham (following the death on 7 October of Æthelstan).
- Æthelred becomes Bishop of Cornwall but dies shortly after.
- 1002
- 8 January – Wulfsige III, Bishop of Sherborne, dies and is succeeded by Æthelric.
- £24,000 of Danegeld paid to the Vikings in return for them leaving England.[1]
- King Æthelred the Unready marries (as his second wife) Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy,[1] who receives her predecessor's Anglo-Saxon name, Ælfgifu.
- 13 November – St. Brice's Day massacre: Æthelred orders the deaths of leading Danes in England.[2]
- 1003
- Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, invades England in retaliation for the St. Brice's Day massacre.[2]
- 1004
- Vikings raid Devon and East Anglia.[1]
- 1005
- 16 November – Ælfric, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies, leaving ships to the people of Wiltshire and Kent in his will, with his best, equipped for sixty men, going to King Æthelred.
- Continued Viking raids on southern England.[1]
- 1006
- Ælfheah enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Vikings raid south-eastern England from the Isle of Wight to Reading and spend the winter at Wallingford.[1]
- 1007
- £36,000 of Danegeld paid to the Vikings in return for them not raiding England for two years.[1]
- 1008
- Æthelred and Archbishop Wulfstan of York pass laws for the protection of Christianity in England.[1]
- 1009
- New English fleet assembled.[1]
- 1 August – Vikings occupy Sandwich, Kent, attack London, and burn Oxford.[1]
Births
- 1001
- Godwin, Earl of Wessex (died 1053)
- 1003/1004
- King Edward the Confessor (died 1066)
- 1004
- Princess Goda of England (died 1055)
Deaths
- 1000/1001
- 1001
- 7 October – Æthelstan, Bishop of Elmham
- 1005
- 16 November – Ælfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury
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References
- Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 47–48. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 104–105. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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