Events from the 1010sinEngland. Monarch – Ethelred (to December 1013), Sweyn (December 1013 to 3 February 1014), Ethelred (3 February 1014 to 23 April...
The 1010s was a decade of the Julian Calendar which began on January 1, 1010, and ended on December 31, 1019. The Nile river in Egypt freezes over. The...
Events from the 10th century in the Kingdom of England. 902 Irish Norsemen, expelled from Dublin, establish colonies on The Wirral. 909 King Edward the...
Events from the 1000s inEngland. Monarch – Ethelred 1000 English fleet invades the Isle of Man. English invasion of Cumbria fails. Heroic poem The Battle...
Events from the 1030s inEngland. Monarch – Canute (to 12 November 1034), Harold I 1030 1031 King Cnut invades Scotland and forces the submission of Malcolm...
Events from the 1020s inEngland. Monarch – Canute 1020 Rotunda of Bury St Edmunds Abbey constructed. Aethelnoth enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury...
of Scotland in alliance with the Cumbrians. The encounter took place in the 1010s, most likely 1018 (or perhaps 1016), at Carham on Tweed in what is now...
of England from 1035 to 1037 and King of the English from 1037 to 1040. Harold's nickname "Harefoot" is first recorded as "Harefoh" or "Harefah" in the...
Catepanate of Italy. Melus is forced to flee to Salerno, and his brother-in-law Dattus escapes to Monte Cassino, but their families are taken captive...
Salians. In Britain, it saw the transformation of Scotland into a single, more unified and centralised kingdom and the Norman conquest of Englandin 1066...
ruler) of England. Cnut is buried in the Old Minster, in Winchester. Winter – Harthacnut is unable to travel to his coronation inEngland because his...
millennium, the 14th year of the 11th century, and the 5th year of the 1010s decade. Summer – Battle of Thessalonica: Emperor Basil II launches a raiding...
King Cnut the Great (who ruled Denmark, Norway, and England) and Emma of Normandy. When Cnut died in 1035, Harthacnut struggled to retain his father's possessions...
king of England. In July he marries Emma of Normandy, the widow of Æthelred the Unready, securing his ties with Normandy. Cnut divides England into four...
Shikibu – as a renowned writer and lady-in-waiting, tutor of Empress Shōshi, she is elevated to the highest position in the palace below the empress. April...
English throne. Harald assented, invading northern England with 10,000 troops and 300 longships in September 1066, raiding the coast and defeating the...
historian and writer (d. 1077) Cnut (the Great), king of Denmark, Norway and England (d. 1035) Dominic Loricatus, Italian priest and hermit (d. 1060) Frederick...
Archbishop Arnulf II in Pavia. A quarrel ensues between the German troops and the Pavese citizens. Henry orders a massacre of the population in response, destroying...
the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University...
Hungary (b. 950) Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England, pp. 381–384. The Oxford History of England. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 019-280-1392. According...
the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History: Between China and the Islamic World, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University...
building passed in Serbia during the reign of Prince Jovan Vladimir. Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard repeatedly attack southern England, destroying...
eventually accept his decision. April 19 – Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury inEngland, is murdered by his Danish captors at Greenwich (after refusing to pay...
relieve the city in alliance with the Hamdanid Dynasty. Manjutakin defeats the Hamdanids with his forces and attacks the Byzantine force in the rear. The...
invading the Duchy of Lorraine dies in battle with forces loyal to Gothelo I. King Harold I seizes the throne of England from his half-brother Harthacnut...
(the Younger), duke of Carinthia (d. 1039) Edward the Confessor, king of England (d. 1066) Frederick, duke of Lower Lorraine (approximate date) Hedwig (or...
Fujiwara no Nobunaga, Japanese nobleman (d. 1094) Harold II, king of England (approximate date) Manasses III, French nobleman (d. 1065) Michael Attaleiates...
brother Alfred Aetheling is blinded and murdered, in an apparent attempt to seize the throne of England from Harold I. June 13 – Caliph al-Zahir li-i'zaz...