- 1010s in England
Events from the
1010s inEngland .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), CanuteEvents
* 1010
**Battle of Ringmere : Danish leaderThorkell the Tall defeats English army, and ravagesEast Anglia andMercia .
* 1011
** Danes capture Canterbury, takingAlphege , theArchbishop of Canterbury as a prisoner.
**Byrhtferth of Ramsey writes his "Manual", on the subject oftime .
* 1012
** April - KingEthelred the Unready pays £48,000Danegeld .
**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
** KingSweyn I of Denmark invades England forcing King Ethelred to flee toNormandy .
** July - Sweyn proclaimed as King within theDanelaw .
** December - Sweyn gains control of all of England.
** Lyfing enthroned asArchbishop 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 sonEdmund 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 ofWessex only.
**30 November - King Edmund dies and Canute takes control of the whole country.
* 1017
** July - Canute marries Ethelred's widowEmma of Normandy .
** Canute divies England into the fourEarldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia, andNorthumbria controlled byGodwin, Earl of Wessex ,Leofric, Earl of Mercia , Thorkell the Tall, andEiríkr 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 brotherHarald II of Denmark on the Danish throne.
**Buckfast Abbey founded inDevon .
* 1019Births
* 1016
** KingHarold Harefoot (died 1040)
* 1018
** KingHarthacanute (died 1042)Deaths
* 1010
**Ælfric of Eynsham abbot (born c. 955)
* 1012
**19 April -Alphege , Archbishop of Canterbury (born 954)
* 1016
**April 23 - KingEthelred the Unready (born c. 968)
**November 30 - KingEdmund Ironside
* 1017
** December -Eadric Streona , ealdormanReferences
ee also
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