1000s in England

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Events from the 1000s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch – Ethelred

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 is elevated from Bishop of Winchester to Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Summer–Autumn – Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard raid the south-east from the Isle of Wight to Reading in the Thames Valley where they overwinter at the Wallingford river crossing.[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
- 17 November – Ælfthryth, queen consort of England (born c. 945)
1001
- 7 October – Æthelstan, Bishop of Elmham
1005
- 16 November – Ælfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury

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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[CBH-1] Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 47–48. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

[Cassell's_Chronology-2] Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 104–105. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.