1000s in England
{{Short description|Events from the 1000s in England}}
Events from the 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.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/104|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/104 104–105]}}
- 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.{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=47–48|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
- 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