1000s in England
# 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.
* 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.
   * 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
