Events from the 1000s in England.
Incumbents
Events
- 1000
- English fleet invades the Isle of Man.
- English invasion of Cumbria fails.
- Heroic poem The Battle of Maldon composed.
- 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.
- ÃÂlfgar is consecrated Bishop of Elmham (following the death on 7 October of ÃÂthelstan).
- ÃÂthelred becomes Bishop of Cornwall but dies shortly after.
- 1002
- 8 January â Wulfsige III, Bishop of Sherborne, dies and is succeeded by ÃÂthelric.
- ã24,000 of Danegeld paid to the Vikings in return for them leaving England.
- King ÃÂthelred the Unready marries (as his second wife) Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, who receives her predecessor's Anglo-Saxon name, ÃÂlfgifu.
- 13 November â St. Brice's Day massacre: ÃÂthelred orders the deaths of leading Danes in England.
- 1003
- Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, invades England in retaliation for the St. Brice's Day massacre.
- 1004
- Vikings raid Devon and East Anglia.
- 1005
- 16 November â ÃÂlfric, 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 ÃÂthelred.
- Continued Viking raids on southern England.
- 1006
- ÃÂlfheah is elevated from Bishop of Winchester to Archbishop of Canterbury.
- SummerâÂÂAutumn – 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.
- 1007
- ã36,000 of Danegeld paid to the Vikings in return for them not raiding England for two years.
- 1008
- ÃÂthelred and Archbishop Wulfstan of York pass laws for the protection of Christianity in England.
- 1009
- New English fleet assembled.
- 1 August â Vikings occupy Sandwich, Kent, attack London, and burn Oxford.
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