1010s in England

1010s in England

Events from the 1010s in England.

Incumbents

Monarch - Ethelred the Unready (to December 1013), Sweyn Forkbeard (to 3 February 1014), Ethelred the Unready (23 April 1016), Edmund Ironside (to 30 November 1016), Canute

Events

* 1010
** Battle of Ringmere: Danish leader Thorkell the Tall defeats English army, and ravages East Anglia and Mercia.
* 1011
** Danes capture Canterbury, taking Alphege, the Archbishop of Canterbury as a prisoner.
** Byrhtferth of Ramsey writes his "Manual", on the subject of time.
* 1012
** April - King Ethelred the Unready pays £48,000 Danegeld.
** 19 April - Danes kill Alphege before leaving the country.cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=105–106]
* 1013
** King Sweyn I of Denmark invades England forcing King Ethelred to flee to Normandy.
** July - Sweyn proclaimed as King within the Danelaw.
** December - Sweyn gains control of all of England.
** Lyfing enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
* 1014
** 3 February - Sweyn dies and his son Canute is proclaimed King of England by the Vikings.
** March - Ethelred returns to reclaim his throne whilst Canute returns to Denmark to enforce his rule there. [cite web|url=http://www.timeref.com/hpr43.htm|title=ATHELRED (II The Unready, King of the English 978-1013, 1014-1016)|accessdate=2008-01-04]
** Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York writes "Sermo Lupi ad Anglos", describing the Danes as "God's judgement on England".
* 1015
** August - Canute launches an invasion of England.
* 1016
** 23 April - King Ethelred dies, and is succeeded by his son Edmund Ironside.
** May - Battle of Brentford: King Edmund defeats Canute.
** Canute besieges London.
** 18 October - Battle of Ashingdon: Canute defeats King Edmund, leaving the latter as king of Wessex only.
** 30 November - King Edmund dies and Canute takes control of the whole country.
* 1017
** July - Canute marries Ethelred's widow Emma of Normandy.
** Canute divies England into the four Earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, and Northumbria controlled by Godwin, Earl of Wessex, Leofric, Earl of Mercia, Thorkell the Tall, and Eiríkr Hákonarson respectively.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 48-49|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
* 1018
** Canute succeeds his brother Harald II of Denmark on the Danish throne.
** Buckfast Abbey founded in Devon.
* 1019

Births

* 1016
** King Harold Harefoot (died 1040)
* 1018
** King Harthacanute (died 1042)

Deaths

* 1010
** Ælfric of Eynsham abbot (born c. 955)
* 1012
** 19 April - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 954)
* 1016
** April 23 - King Ethelred the Unready (born c. 968)
** November 30 - King Edmund Ironside
* 1017
** December - Eadric Streona, ealdorman

References

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