Æthelgar [SEP] date of death
time after that – no more than a year and three months". He was transferred to Canterbury in 988. He may have continued to hold his abbacy along with his bishopric and archbishopric until his death. Æthelgar died on 13 February 990.
While archbishop, Æthelgar received two letters from monasteries in Flanders, seeking support and prayers from Æthelgar. One was from the Falrad, the abbot of Saint Vaast Abbey, which requested that relations between the abbey and Canterbury remain good, as they had in Dunstan's time
- 19 May – death of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Æthelgar enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 990
- 13 February – death of Æthelgar, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Sigeric the Serious enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 991
- 1 March – Æthelred signs a treaty with Duke Richard I of Normandy, by which each agrees not to aid the others' enemies.
- August – Norse invasion force sacks Ipswich.
- 10 August – Battle of Maldon: Danes defeat