First Battle of Alton: English fail to repel Viking raiders.
Battle of Pinhoe (Devon): English fail to repel Viking raiders.
Edward the Martyr canonised.
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 enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Vikings raid south-eastern England from the Isle of Wight to Reading and spend the winter at Wallingford.
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
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)
1005
16 November - Ælfric of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury
