1000s in England
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Events from the 1000s in England.
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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
- Ælfthryth, Queen of England (born c. 945)
- 1005
- 16 November - Ælfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury
References
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