1000s in England:

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Events from the 1000s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Ethelred 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 against Danish raiders.
  • Edward the Martyr canonised.
• 1002
  • 24,000 of Danegeld paid to the Danes in return for them leaving England.^[1]
  • King Ethelred the Unready marries Emma of Normandy.^[1]
  • 13 November - St. Brice's Day massacre: Ethelred orders the deaths of leading Danes in England.^[2]
• 1003
  • King Sweyn I of Denmark invades England in retaliation for the St. Brice's Day Massacre.^[2]
• 1004
  • Danes raid Devon and East Anglia.^[1]
• 1005
  • Continued Danish raids on southern England.^[1]
• 1006
  • Danes raid south-eastern England from the Isle of Wight to Reading.^[1]
  • Alphege enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Danish forces spend the winter at Wallingford.^[1]
• 1007
  • 36,000 of Danegeld paid.^[1]
• 1008
  • Ethelred and Archbishop Wulfstan II of York pass laws for the protection of Christianity in England.^[1]
• 1009
  • New English fleet constructed.^[1]
  • 1 August - Danes 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
  • lfthryth, Queen of England (born c. 945)
• 1005
  • 16 November - lfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury

References

See also