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.
• 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

• 1003/1004
  • King Edward the Confessor (died 1066)
• 1004
  • Princess Goda of England (died 1055)

Deaths

• 1000/1001
  • 17 November - Ælfthryth, queen consort of England (born c. 945)
• 1005
  • 16 November - Ælfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury

References

1. Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 47–48. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
2. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 104–105. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.

See also