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