1000s in England

Events from the 1000s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Ethelred the Unready

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 against Danish raiders.
** Edward the Martyr canonised.
* 1002
** £24,000 of Danegeld paid to the Danes in return for them leaving England.
** King Ethelred the Unready marries Emma of Normandy.
** 13 November - St. Brice's Day massacre: Ethelred orders the deaths of leading Danes in England.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=104–105]
* 1003
** King Sweyn I of Denmark invades England in retaliation for the St. Brice's Day Massacre.
* 1004
** Danes raid Devon and East Anglia.
* 1005
** Continued Danish raids on southern England.
* 1006
** Danes raid south-eastern England from the Isle of Wight to Reading.
** Alphege enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
** Danish forces spend the winter at Wallingford.
* 1007
** £36,000 of Danegeld paid.
* 1008
** Ethelred and Archbishop Wulfstan II of York pass laws for the protection of Christianity in England.
* 1009
** New English fleet constructed.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 47-48|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
** 1 August - Danes occupy Sandwich, Kent, attack London, and burn Oxford.

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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