Events from the1010s inEngland.

• Monarch –Ethelred (to December 1013),Sweyn (December 1013 to 3 February 1014), Ethelred (3 February 1014 to 23 April 1016),Edmund II (23 April to 30 November 1016), thenCanute

• 1010
  • 5 May –Battle of Ringmere:Thorkell the Tall defeats an English army underUlfcytel Snillingr and ravagesEast Anglia andMercia.^[1]
• 1011
  • 29 September –Siege of Canterbury: Thorkell the tall capturesCanterbury after a siege, takingÆlfheah,Archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner.^[1]
  • Byrhtferth ofRamsey Abbey writes hisManual (Enchiridion) on the divine order of the universe andtime.^[1]
• 1012
  • Late 1011 or early 1012 (?) – Battle of Nýjamóđa ("Newmouth") nearOrford, Suffolk, fought between English and Danes.
  • Heregeldtax is introduced to pay Anglo-Scandinavianmercenaries to fight the Danes.
  • April – KingÆthelred the Unready pays £48,000Danegeld.^[1]
  • 19 April – Danes killÆlfheah of Canterbury, probably atGreenwich, before leaving the country.^[2] Thorkell swears allegiance to Æthelred.
• 1013
  • July –Sweyn Forkbeard,King of Denmark, invades England.
  • 25 December – Sweyn is proclaimed King of all England, forcing Æthelred to flee toNormandy.^[1][2]
  • Lyfing is appointed by Æthelred asArchbishop of Canterbury.
• 1014
  • 3 February – Sweyn dies atGainsborough, Lincolnshire, and his sonCnut is proclaimed King of England by the Danes.^[2]
  • March – Æthelred returns to reclaim his throne at the invitation of English nobles.^[3]
  • April – Cnut is driven out of England by Æthelred’s forces.
  • Possible date –Olaf II Haraldsson of Norway perhaps attacks London in support of Æthelred.^[4]
  • Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York preaches his Latin homilySermo Lupi ad Anglos ("Wulf's Address to the English"), describing the Danes as "God's judgement on England".^[1]
• 1015
  • Sigeferth andMorcar, chiefthegns of theFive Boroughs, come to an assembly inOxford where they are murdered byEadric Streona. Æthelred orders that Sigeferth's widow, probably namedEaldgyth, be seized and brought toMalmesbury Abbey, but Æthelred's son,Edmund Ironside, seizes and marries her by mid-August.^[5]
  • August – Cnut launches an invasion of England.^[2]
• 1016
  • 23 April – King Æthelred dies, and is succeeded by his sonEdmund Ironside.^[2]
  • 7 may - Cnut lays siege to London
  • May? - Battle ofPenselwood: King Edmund defeats the Danes under Cnut.
  • June? -Battle of Sherston: inconclusive battle between The English led by Edmund and the Danes led by Cnut.
  • July? - Cnut lays siege to London a second time.
  • Between July and October –Battle of Brentford: King Edmund defeats Cnut, who then besieges London a third time.^[1]
  • Between July and October - Battle ofOtford King Edmund defeats the Danes under Cnut
  • 18 October –Battle of Ashingdon: Cnut defeats King Edmund, leaving the latter as king ofWessex only.^[2]
  • 30 November – King Edmund dies and Cnut takes control of the whole country.^[2]
• 1017
  • c. July – Cnut marries Æthelred's widowEmma of Normandy.^[1]
  • Cnut divides England into the fourEarldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia andNorthumbria controlled by himself,Eadric Streona, Thorkell the Tall andEric Haakonsson respectively.^[1]
  • Christmas – Cnut has Eadric killed andLeofric becomes Earl of Mercia.
• 1018
  • Cnut succeeds his brotherHarald II of Denmark on the Danish throne.^[2]
  • Buckfast Abbey founded inDevon.
  • Cnut levies £10,500 to payheregeld.
• 1019
  • Exeter monastery restored by Cnut.

• 1015 or 1016
  • KingHarold Harefoot (died 1040)
• c. 1018
  • KingHarthacnut (died 1042)

• 1010
  • Ælfric of Eynsham, abbot (born c. 955)
• 1012
  • 19 April – ArchbishopÆlfheah of Canterbury (born 954)
• 1016
  • 23 April – KingÆthelred the Unready (born c. 968)
  • 30 November – KingEdmund Ironside
• 1017
  • December –Eadric Streona, ealdorman

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