1000s in England

Incumbents

• Monarch – Ethelred

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.
  • 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.
  • King Æthelred the Unready marries (as his second wife) Emma, daughter of Richard I, Duke of Normandy, 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.
• 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 – 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.
• 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.
• 1007
  • £36,000 of Danegeld paid to the Vikings in return for them not raiding England for two years.
• 1008
  • Æthelred and Archbishop Wulfstan of York pass laws for the protection of Christianity in England.
• 1009
  • New English fleet assembled.
  • 1 August – Vikings occupy Sandwich, Kent, attack London, and burn Oxford.

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

References

1. Palmer, Alan. (1992). "The Chronology of British History". Century Ltd.