Events from the1000s inEngland.

• Monarch –Ethelred

• 1000
  • English fleet invades theIsle of Man.^[1]
  • English invasion ofCumbria fails.^[1]
  • Heroic poemThe Battle of Maldon composed.^[1]
• 1001
  • First Battle of Alton: English fail to repelViking raiders.
  • Battle of Pinhoe (Devon): English fail to repel Viking raiders.
  • Edward the Martyr canonised.
  • Ælfgar is consecratedBishop of Elmham (following the death on 7 October ofÆthelstan).
  • Æthelred becomes Bishop of Cornwall but dies shortly after.
• 1002
  • 8 January –Wulfsige III,Bishop of Sherborne, dies and is succeeded byÆthelric.
  • £24,000 ofDanegeld paid to the Vikings in return for them leaving England.^[1]
  • KingÆthelred the Unready marries (as his second wife)Emma, daughter ofRichard I, Duke of Normandy,^[1] 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.^[2]
• 1003
  • Sweyn Forkbeard,King of Denmark, invades England in retaliation for the St. Brice's Day massacre.^[2]
• 1004
  • Vikings raidDevon andEast Anglia.^[1]
• 1005
  • 16 November –Ælfric,Archbishop of Canterbury, dies, leaving ships to the people ofWiltshire andKent in his will, with his best, equipped for sixty men, going to King Æthelred.
  • Continued Viking raids on southern England.^[1]
• 1006
  • Ælfheah is elevated from Bishop of Winchester toArchbishop of Canterbury.
  • Summer–Autumn – DanishViking raiders led bySweyn Forkbeard raid the south-east from theIsle of Wight toReading in theThames Valley where they overwinter at theWallingford river crossing.^[1]
• 1007
  • £36,000 of Danegeld paid to the Vikings in return for them not raiding England for two years.^[1]
• 1008
  • Æthelred and ArchbishopWulfstan of York pass laws for the protection ofChristianity in England.^[1]
• 1009
  • New English fleet assembled.^[1]
  • 1 August – Vikings occupySandwich, Kent, attack London, and burnOxford.^[1]

• 1001
  • Godwin, Earl of Wessex (died1053)
• 1003/1004
  • KingEdward the Confessor (died1066)
• 1004
  • PrincessGoda of England (died1055)

• 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

• 1000s in England

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