£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.
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Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, invades England in retaliation for the St. Brice's Day massacre.
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.
