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 : English fail to repel Viking raiders.
• * Edward the Martyr canonised.
• * Ælfgar is consecrated Bishop of Elmham.
• * 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 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 enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
• * Vikings raid south-eastern England from the Isle of Wight to Reading and spend the winter at Wallingford.
• 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
• 1003/1004
• * King Edward the Confessor
• 1004
• * Princess Goda of England

  Deaths

• 1000/1001
• * 17 November – Ælfthryth, queen consort of England
• 1001
• * 7 October – Æthelstan, Bishop of Elmham
• 1005
• * 16 November – Ælfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury