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9th century 9th century in England Events from the 9th century in England.-Events:* 801** Northumbrian invasion of Mercia fails.* 802** Egbert becomes King of Wessex.* 803** Council of Clofeshoh abolishes the Archbishopric of Lichfield.* 805... \| 10th century \| 1000s 1000s in England Events from the 1000s in England.-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 against Danish raiders.... \| 1010s 1010s in England Events from the 1010s in England.-Incumbents:Monarch - Ethelred the Unready , Sweyn Forkbeard , Ethelred the Unready , Edmund Ironside , Canute-Events:* 1010...

Events from the 10th century
10th century
The 10th century is the period from 901 to 1000 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian/Common Era.The 10th century is usually regarded as a low point in European history. In China it was also a period of political upheaval. In the Muslim World, however, it was a cultural zenith,...

in the Kingdom of England
Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe. At its height, the Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and several smaller outlying islands; what today comprises the legal jurisdiction of England...

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Events

902
- Irish Norsemen
  Norsemen
  Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who spoke what is now called the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish and Danish in their earlier forms.The meaning of Norseman was "people...
  
  , expelled from Dublin, establish colonies on The Wirral.
910–920
- Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex...
  
  , King of Wessex, and Æthelflæd, ruler of Mercia, conquer most of the Danelaw
  Danelaw
  The Danelaw, as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , is a historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the "Danes" held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons. It is contrasted with "West Saxon law" and "Mercian law". The term has been extended by modern historians to...
  
  .
910
- 5 August - Battle of Tettenhall
  Battle of Tettenhall
  The Battle of Tettenhall took place, according to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle near Tettenhall, on the 5 August 910. The allied forces of Mercia and Wessex met an army of Northumbrian Vikings in Mercia...
  
  : Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex...
  
  , King of Wessex defeats a Viking
  Viking
  The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to...
  
  army.
911
- Edward transfers London and Oxford
  Oxford
  The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
  
  from Mercia
  Mercia
  Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands...
  
  to Wessex
  Wessex
  The Kingdom of Wessex or Kingdom of the West Saxons was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the West Saxons, in South West England, from the 6th century, until the emergence of a united English state in the 10th century, under the Wessex dynasty. It was to be an earldom after Canute the Great's conquest...
  
  .
914 or 923
- Death of Plegmund
  Plegmund
  Plegmund , after spending time as a hermit, became Archbishop of Canterbury in England from 890 to 914. He reorganised the Diocese of Winchester, creating four new sees, and worked with other scholars in translating religious works...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury.
915
- First Battle of Corbridge Viking victory over the Anglo-Saxons.
- King Edward occupies Bedford
  Bedford
  Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, in the East of England. It is a large town and the administrative centre for the wider Borough of Bedford. According to the former Bedfordshire County Council's estimates, the town had a population of 79,190 in mid 2005, with 19,720 in the adjacent town...
  
  .
917
- King Edward captures Derby
  Derby
  Derby , is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...
  
  and seizes control of East Anglia
  East Anglia
  East Anglia is a traditional name for a region of eastern England, named after an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, the Kingdom of the East Angles. The Angles took their name from their homeland Angeln, in northern Germany. East Anglia initially consisted of Norfolk and Suffolk, but upon the marriage of...
  
  . All Danes
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
  
  south of the Humber
  Humber
  The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal River Ouse and the tidal River Trent. From here to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north bank...
  
  submit to his rule.
918
- Æthelflæd of Mercia dies; Edward the Elder takes control of her kingdom.
- Welsh princes pay homage
  Homage (medieval)
  Homage in the Middle Ages was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic title to his new position . It was a symbolic acknowledgment to the lord that the vassal was, literally, his man . The oath known as...
  
  to Edward.
- Second Battle of Corbridge.
919
- Ragnall ua Ímair
  Ragnall ua Ímair
  Ragnall was a Norse overlord or emperor of northern Britain, including Northumbria, the entire Irish Sea region including the Isle of Man, south to Waterford and briefly much of the Irish province of Munster, and then returning to Britain, briefly York as distinct from Northumbria at this time...
  
  seizes control of the Kingdom of York.
920
- Norse
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
  Vikings under Sihtric
  Sihtric
  Sitric Cáech was a Norse King of Dublin who later reigned as King of York. His epithet means the 'Squint-eyed'. He belonged to the House of Ivar....
  
  attack Cheshire
  Cheshire
  Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England. Cheshire's county town is the city of Chester, although its largest town is Warrington. Other major towns include Widnes, Congleton, Crewe, Ellesmere Port, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Winsford, Northwich, and Wilmslow...
  
  .
- Constantine II of Scotland
  Constantine II of Scotland
  Constantine, son of Áed was an early King of Scotland, known then by the Gaelic name Alba. The Kingdom of Alba, a name which first appears in Constantine's lifetime, was in northern Great Britain...
  
  , and the kings of Strathclyde
  Kingdom of Strathclyde
  Strathclyde , originally Brythonic Ystrad Clud, was one of the early medieval kingdoms of the celtic people called the Britons in the Hen Ogledd, the Brythonic-speaking parts of what is now southern Scotland and northern England. The kingdom developed during the post-Roman period...
  
  , York, and Northumbria
  Northumbria
  Northumbria was a medieval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary.Northumbria was...
  
  acknowledge Edward the Elder as their overlord.
c. 923
- Athelm
  Athelm
  Athelm was an English churchman, who was the first Bishop of Wells, and later Archbishop of Canterbury.-Biography:...
  
  enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
  .
924
- 17 July - Edward the Elder dies and is succeeded by Athelstan
  Athelstan of England
  Athelstan , called the Glorious, was the King of England from 924 or 925 to 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder, grandson of Alfred the Great and nephew of Æthelflæd of Mercia...
  
  as King of Wessex.
925
- 4 September - Coronation of Athelstan as King of Wessex.
926
- 8 January - Death of Athelm
  Athelm
  Athelm was an English churchman, who was the first Bishop of Wells, and later Archbishop of Canterbury.-Biography:...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury.
c. 926
- Wulfhelm
  Wulfhelm
  Wulfhelm was Bishop of Wells before being promoted to the Archbishopric of Canterbury about 926.-Biography:Wulfhelm was elected and consecrated Bishop of Wells between 923 and September 925. Wulfhelm was translated from the Bishopric of Wells to be Archbishop of Canterbury in about 926...
  
  enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
  .
927
- King Athelstan occupies York
  York
  York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
  
  .
- King Athelstan of Wessex unites the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy
  Heptarchy
  The Heptarchy is a collective name applied to the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of south, east, and central Great Britain during late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, conventionally identified as seven: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex...
  
  into the Kingdom of England
  Kingdom of England
  The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a sovereign state to the northwest of continental Europe. At its height, the Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and several smaller outlying islands; what today comprises the legal jurisdiction of England...
  
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- 12 July - Kings of Scotland and Strathclyde acknowledge Athelstan as their overlord.
928
- King Athelstan defeats the Welsh, and sets the border of Wales
  Wales
  Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
  
  at the River Wye
  River Wye
  The River Wye is the fifth-longest river in the UK and for parts of its length forms part of the border between England and Wales. It is important for nature conservation and recreation.-Description:...
  
  .
- King Athelstan subdues the Cornish, and sets the border of Cornwall
  Cornwall
  Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
  
  at the River Tamar
  River Tamar
  The Tamar is a river in South West England, that forms most of the border between Devon and Cornwall . It is one of several British rivers whose ancient name is assumed to be derived from a prehistoric river word apparently meaning "dark flowing" and which it shares with the River Thames.The...
  
  .
931
- Athelstan holds the first Council of All England, at Colchester
  Colchester
  Colchester is an historic town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in Essex, England.At the time of the census in 2001, it had a population of 104,390. However, the population is rapidly increasing, and has been named as one of Britain's fastest growing towns. As the...
  
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933
- Athelstan founds Milton Abbey.
934
- Athelstan invades Scotland
  Scotland
  Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
  
  , reaching as far as Caithness
  Caithness
  Caithness is a registration county, lieutenancy area and historic local government area of Scotland. The name was used also for the earldom of Caithness and the Caithness constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . Boundaries are not identical in all contexts, but the Caithness area is...
  
  .
935
- Athelstan mints the first coins proclaiming himself to be "King of All Britain".
937
- Battle of Brunanburh
  Battle of Brunanburh
  The Battle of Brunanburh was an English victory in 937 by the army of Æthelstan, King of England, and his brother Edmund over the combined armies of Olaf III Guthfrithson, the Norse-Gael King of Dublin, Constantine II, King of Scots, and Owen I, King of Strathclyde...
  
  : King Athelstan defeats the Scots, Vikings, and Strathclyde Welsh.
939
- Failed expedition to support King Louis IV of France
  Louis IV of France
  Louis IV , called d'Outremer or Transmarinus , reigned as King of Western Francia from 936 to 954...
  
  against the Germans
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
  .
- King Athelstan dies and is succeeded by his brother Edmund I of England
  Edmund I of England
  Edmund I , called the Elder, the Deed-doer, the Just, or the Magnificent, was King of England from 939 until his death. He was a son of Edward the Elder and half-brother of Athelstan. Athelstan died on 27 October 939, and Edmund succeeded him as king.-Military threats:Shortly after his...
  
  .
- Viking leader Olaf III Guthfrithson
  Olaf III Guthfrithson
  Amlaíb mac Gofraid , a member of the Norse-Gael Uí Ímair dynasty, was King of Dublin from 934 to 941...
  
  captures York.
940
- King Edmund cedes Northumbria
  Northumbria
  Northumbria was a medieval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary.Northumbria was...
  
  and the Five Boroughs to Olaf Guthfrithson.
- Saint Dunstan becomes abbot of Glastonbury
  Glastonbury
  Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low lying Somerset Levels, south of Bristol. The town, which is in the Mendip district, had a population of 8,784 in the 2001 census...
  
  and initiates monastic reform and revival.
- King Edmund summons Dunstan to his court where he becomes a favourite.
941
- Olaf Guthfrithson dies; Olaf Sihtricsson becomes King of York.
- 12 February - Death of Wulfhelm
  Wulfhelm
  Wulfhelm was Bishop of Wells before being promoted to the Archbishopric of Canterbury about 926.-Biography:Wulfhelm was elected and consecrated Bishop of Wells between 923 and September 925. Wulfhelm was translated from the Bishopric of Wells to be Archbishop of Canterbury in about 926...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Oda enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
  .
942
- King Edmund re-captures the Five Boroughs.
944
- King Edmund takes York
  York
  York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...
  
  from the Vikings.
945
- King Edmund invades Strathclyde
  Strathclyde
  right|thumb|the former Strathclyde regionStrathclyde was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created by the Local Government Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc Act 1994...
  
  , and grants Cumbria
  Cumbria
  Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...
  
  to King Malcolm I of Scotland
  Malcolm I of Scotland
  Máel Coluim mac Domnaill was king of Scots , becoming king when his cousin Causantín mac Áeda abdicated to become a monk...
  
  .
946
- 26 May - King Edmund murdered and succeeded by his brother Eadred of England.
947
- Wulfstan I, Archbishop of York
  Wulfstan I, Archbishop of York
  Wulfstan was Archbishop of York between 931 and 952. He is often known as Wulfstan I, to separate him from Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York.-Life:Wulfstan was consecrated in 931....
  
  invites the Viking leader Eric Bloodaxe
  Eric Bloodaxe
  Eric Haraldsson , nicknamed ‘Bloodaxe’ , was a 10th-century Scandinavian ruler. He is thought to have had short-lived terms as the second king of Norway and possibly as the last independent ruler of the kingdom of Northumbria Eric Haraldsson (Eric, anglicised form of ; died 954), nicknamed...
  
  to become King of York.
948
- King Eadred expels Eric Bloodaxe from Northumbria
  Northumbria
  Northumbria was a medieval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary.Northumbria was...
  
  .
- King Malcolm I of Scotland raids Northumbria.
949
- Olaf Sihtricsson returns as King of York.
952
- Eric Bloodaxe reconquers York.
- King Eadred imprisons Wulfstan of York.
954
- Eric Bloodaxe dies allowing King Eadred to recover York.
955
- 23 November - King Eadred dies and is succeeded by his nephew Eadwig of England.
956
- Dunstan exiled after quarreling with King Eadwig.
957
- Dunstan
  Dunstan
  Dunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church...
  
  re-founds abbeys at Bath, Exeter
  Exeter
  Exeter is a historic city in Devon, England. It lies within the ceremonial county of Devon, of which it is the county town as well as the home of Devon County Council. Currently the administrative area has the status of a non-metropolitan district, and is therefore under the administration of the...
  
  , Malmesbury
  Malmesbury Abbey
  Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, was founded as a Benedictine monastery around 676 by the scholar-poet Aldhelm, a nephew of King Ine of Wessex. In 941 AD, King Athelstan was buried in the Abbey. By the 11th century it contained the second largest library in Europe and was...
  
  , and Westminster
  Westminster Abbey
  The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English,...
  
  .
- Mercia
  Mercia
  Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands...
  
  and Northumbria rebel, choosing Edgar of England
  Edgar of England
  Edgar the Peaceful, or Edgar I , also called the Peaceable, was a king of England . Edgar was the younger son of Edmund I of England.-Accession:...
  
  as King.
958
- 2 June - Death of Oda of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury.
959
- Ælfsige enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
  but dies en route to Rome
  Rome
  Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
  
  .
- Birthelm
  Birthelm
  Byrhthelm was the Bishop of Wells and briefly the archbishop of Canterbury...
  
  enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1 October - King Edy dies and is succeeded by his brother Edgar of England.
- Edgar overturns the appointment of Birthelm as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Dunstan enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
961
- Saint Oswald
  Oswald of Worcester
  Oswald of Worcester was Archbishop of York from 972 to his death in 992. He was of Danish ancestry, but brought up by his uncle, Oda, who sent him to France to the abbey of Fleury to become a monk. After a number of years at Fleury, Oswald returned to England at the request of his uncle, who died...
  
  becomes Bishop of Worcester
  Bishop of Worcester
  The Bishop of Worcester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England. He is the head of the Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury...
  
  ; establishes or re-founds abbeys at Ramsey
  Ramsey, Cambridgeshire
  Ramsey is a small Cambridgeshire market town and parish, north of Huntingdon and St Ives. For local government purposes it lies in the district of Huntingdonshire within the local government county of Cambridgeshire....
  
  , Evesham
  Evesham
  Evesham is a market town and a civil parish in the Local Authority District of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England with a population of 22,000. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon...
  
  , Pershore
  Pershore
  Pershore is a market town in Worcestershire, England, on the banks of the River Avon. Pershore is in the Wychavon district and is part of the West Worcestershire parliamentary constituency. At the 2001 census the population was 7,304...
  
  , and Winchcombe
  Winchcombe
  Winchcombe is a Cotswold town in the local authority district of Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire, England. Its population according to the 2001 census was 4,379.-Early history:...
  
  .
963
- King Edgar grants legal autonomy to the Danelaw.
- Æthelwold
  Æthelwold
  -Royalty and nobility:*King Æthelwold of Deira, King of Deira, d. 655*King Æthelwold of East Anglia, King of East Anglia, d. 664*King Æthelwold Moll of Northumbria, King of Northumbria, d. post-765*Æthelwold of Wessex, son of King Æthelred of Wessex, d. 902...
  
  becomes Bishop of Winchester
  Bishop of Winchester
  The Bishop of Winchester is the head of the Church of England diocese of Winchester, with his cathedra at Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire.The bishop is one of five Church of England bishops to be among the Lords Spiritual regardless of their length of service. His diocese is one of the oldest and...
  
  ; re-founds abbeys at Ely
  Ely, Cambridgeshire
  Ely is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, 14 miles north-northeast of Cambridge and about by road from London. It is built on a Lower Greensand island, which at a maximum elevation of is the highest land in the Fens...
  
  and Peterborough
  Peterborough
  Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority area in the East of England, with an estimated population of in June 2007. For ceremonial purposes it is in the county of Cambridgeshire. Situated north of London, the city stands on the River Nene which flows into the North Sea...
  
  .
c. 970
- Regularis Concordia
  Regularis Concordia (Winchester)
  The Regularis Concordia, or Monastic Agreement, was a document produced at Winchester, England, in about 970.The document was compiled by Æthelwold, who was aided by monks from Fleury and Ghent. A synodal council was summoned to construct a common rule of life to be observed by all monasteries...
  
  produced at Winchester
  Winchester
  Winchester is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, and is located at the western end of the South Downs, along the course of...
  
  .
971
- 15 July The planned removal of the body of Saint Swithun during the re-building of Winchester Cathedral
  Winchester Cathedral
  Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe...
  
  delayed by 40 days due to rain.
- Kenneth II of Scotland
  Kenneth II of Scotland
  Cináed mac Maíl Coluim was King of Scots...
  
  raids England, reaching as far as Yorkshire
  Yorkshire
  Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
  
  .
973
- 11 May - Coronation of King Edgar at Bath.
- Edgar sails to Chester
  Chester
  Chester is a city in Cheshire, England. Lying on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales, it is home to 77,040 inhabitants, and is the largest and most populous settlement of the wider unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester, which had a population of 328,100 according to the...
  
  , and receives homage
  Homage (medieval)
  Homage in the Middle Ages was the ceremony in which a feudal tenant or vassal pledged reverence and submission to his feudal lord, receiving in exchange the symbolic title to his new position . It was a symbolic acknowledgment to the lord that the vassal was, literally, his man . The oath known as...
  
  from the rulers of Alba
  Alba
  Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. It is cognate to Alba in Irish and Nalbin in Manx, the two other Goidelic Insular Celtic languages, as well as similar words in the Brythonic Insular Celtic languages of Cornish and Welsh also meaning Scotland.- Etymology :The term first appears in...
  
  , Strathclyde, Wales, and the Kingdom of the Isles
  Kingdom of the Isles
  The Kingdom of the Isles comprised the Hebrides, the islands of the Firth of Clyde and the Isle of Man from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD. The islands were known to the Norse as the Suðreyjar, or "Southern Isles" as distinct from the Norðreyjar or Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland...
  
  .
975
- 8 July - King Edgar dies and is succeeded by his son Edward the Martyr
  Edward the Martyr
  Edward the Martyr was king of the English from 975 until he was murdered in 978. Edward was the eldest son of King Edgar, but not his father's acknowledged heir...
  
  , who is only 12 years old.
978
- 18 March - King Edward is murdered by the servants of his stepmother Ælfthryth, Queen of England. He is succeeded by his stepbrother Æthelred the Unready.
980
- Vikings begin a new wave of raids on England.
981
- Danish
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
  
  raids on Dorset
  Dorset
  Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
  
  , Devon
  Devon
  Devon is a large county in southwestern England. The county is sometimes referred to as Devonshire, although the term is rarely used inside the county itself as the county has never been officially "shired", it often indicates a traditional or historical context.The county shares borders with...
  
  , and Cornwall begin, and continue for a further seven years.
988
- 19 May - Death of Dunstan
  Dunstan
  Dunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Æthelgar
  Æthelgar
  Æthelgar was Archbishop of Canterbury, and previously Bishop of Selsey.-Biography:Æthelgar was a monk at Glastonbury Abbey before he was the discipulus of Aethelwold the Bishop of Winchester. He then continued as a monk at Abingdon Abbey, until 964 when he was appointed Abbot of the newly reformed...
  
  enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
  .
990
- 13 February - Death of Æthelgar
  Æthelgar
  Æthelgar was Archbishop of Canterbury, and previously Bishop of Selsey.-Biography:Æthelgar was a monk at Glastonbury Abbey before he was the discipulus of Aethelwold the Bishop of Winchester. He then continued as a monk at Abingdon Abbey, until 964 when he was appointed Abbot of the newly reformed...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Sigeric the Serious
  Sigeric the Serious
  Sigeric was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 990 to 994.It is unclear whether the epithet "The Serious" originated from his learning, or if it derived from transliteration of his name into Latin as Serio.- Biography :...
  
  enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
  .
991
- 1 March - Æthelred signs a treaty with Duke Richard I of Normandy
  Richard I of Normandy
  Richard I of Normandy , also known as Richard the Fearless , was the Duke of Normandy from 942 to 996; he is considered the first to have held that title.-Birth:He was born to William I of Normandy, ruler of Normandy, and Sprota...
  
  , by which each agrees not to aid the others enemies.
- August - Norse
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
  invasion force sacks Ipswich
  Ipswich
  Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...
  
  .
- 10 August - Battle of Maldon
  Battle of Maldon
  The Battle of Maldon took place on 10 August 991 near Maldon beside the River Blackwater in Essex, England, during the reign of Aethelred the Unready. Earl Byrhtnoth and his thegns led the English against a Viking invasion. The battle ended in an Anglo-Saxon defeat...
  
  : Danes defeat the English army.
- The first Danegeld
  Danegeld
  The Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources; the term Danegeld did not appear until the early twelfth century...
  
  , of £10,000, is paid to the Danes in return for their leaving England.
993
- Danes raid Northumbria
  Northumbria
  Northumbria was a medieval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary.Northumbria was...
  
  .
994
- Norse and Danish armies ravage the south-east, but fail to capture London.
- £16,000 of Danegeld paid.
- Olaf II of Norway
  Olaf II of Norway
  Olaf II Haraldsson was King of Norway from 1015 to 1028. He was posthumously given the title Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae and canonised in Nidaros by Bishop Grimkell, one year after his death in the Battle of Stiklestad on 29 July 1030. Enshrined in Nidaros Cathedral...
  
  is baptised
  Baptism
  In Christianity, baptism is for the majority the rite of admission , almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally and also membership of a particular church tradition...
  
  at Andover
  Andover, Hampshire
  Andover is a town in the English county of Hampshire. The town is on the River Anton some 18.5 miles west of the town of Basingstoke, 18.5 miles north-west of the city of Winchester and 25 miles north of the city of Southampton...
  
  , and swears not to return to England.
995
- Ælfric of Abingdon enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
  .
- Ælfric of Eynsham
  Ælfric of Eynsham
  Ælfric of Eynsham was an English abbot, as well as a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres. He is also known variously as Ælfric the Grammarian , Ælfric of Cerne, and Ælfric the Homilist...
  
  completes his Catholic Homilies.
997
- King Æthelred issues a law code at Wantage
  Wantage
  Wantage is a market town and civil parish in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire, England. The town is on Letcombe Brook, about south-west of Abingdon and a similar distance west of Didcot....
  
  , defining the legal position in the Danelaw and introducing trial by jury
  Trial by Jury
  Trial by Jury is a comic opera in one act, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was first produced on 25 March 1875, at London's Royalty Theatre, where it initially ran for 131 performances and was considered a hit, receiving critical praise and outrunning its...
  
  .
- Ælfric of Eynsham completes the English Lives of Saints.
998
- Danes raid southern and western coasts.
999
- Danes raid Kent
  Kent
  Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...
  
  , attacking Rochester.
1000
- English fleet invades the Isle of Man
  Isle of Man
  The Isle of Man , otherwise known simply as Mann , is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, within the British Isles. The head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, who holds the title of Lord of Mann. The Lord of Mann is...
  
  .
- English invasion of Cumbria
  Cumbria
  Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...
  
  fails.
- Heroic poem The Battle of Maldon
  The Battle of Maldon
  The Battle of Maldon is the name given to an Old English poem of uncertain date celebrating the real Battle of Maldon of 991, at which the Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent a Viking invasion...
  
  composed.

Births

909
- Dunstan
  Dunstan
  Dunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury (died 988)
922
- King Edmund I of England
  Edmund I of England
  Edmund I , called the Elder, the Deed-doer, the Just, or the Magnificent, was King of England from 939 until his death. He was a son of Edward the Elder and half-brother of Athelstan. Athelstan died on 27 October 939, and Edmund succeeded him as king.-Military threats:Shortly after his...
  
  (died 946)
923
- King Eadred of England (died 955)
943/44
- King Edgar of England
  Edgar of England
  Edgar the Peaceful, or Edgar I , also called the Peaceable, was a king of England . Edgar was the younger son of Edmund I of England.-Accession:...
  
  (died 975)
c. 950
- Sigeric the Serious
  Sigeric the Serious
  Sigeric was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 990 to 994.It is unclear whether the epithet "The Serious" originated from his learning, or if it derived from transliteration of his name into Latin as Serio.- Biography :...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury (died 994)
962
- King Edward the Martyr
  Edward the Martyr
  Edward the Martyr was king of the English from 975 until he was murdered in 978. Edward was the eldest son of King Edgar, but not his father's acknowledged heir...
  
  (died 978)
968
- King Æthelred the Unready (died 1016)

Deaths

923
- Plegmund
  Plegmund
  Plegmund , after spending time as a hermit, became Archbishop of Canterbury in England from 890 to 914. He reorganised the Diocese of Winchester, creating four new sees, and worked with other scholars in translating religious works...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury
924
- 17 July - Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder
  Edward the Elder was an English king. He became king in 899 upon the death of his father, Alfred the Great. His court was at Winchester, previously the capital of Wessex...
  
  , King of Wessex (born c. 871)
- 2 August - Ælfweard of Wessex
  Ælfweard of Wessex
  Ælfweard was the second son of Edward the Elder, the eldest born to his second wife Ælfflæd.-Kingship and death:The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle simply states that Ælfweard died soon after his father's death on 17 July 924 and that they were buried together at Winchester Cathedral...
  
  , King of Wessex
926
- Athelm
  Athelm
  Athelm was an English churchman, who was the first Bishop of Wells, and later Archbishop of Canterbury.-Biography:...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury
939
- 27 October - King Athelstan of England
  Athelstan of England
  Athelstan , called the Glorious, was the King of England from 924 or 925 to 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder, grandson of Alfred the Great and nephew of Æthelflæd of Mercia...
  
  (born c. 895)
941
- 12 February - Wulfhelm
  Wulfhelm
  Wulfhelm was Bishop of Wells before being promoted to the Archbishopric of Canterbury about 926.-Biography:Wulfhelm was elected and consecrated Bishop of Wells between 923 and September 925. Wulfhelm was translated from the Bishopric of Wells to be Archbishop of Canterbury in about 926...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury
946
- 26 May - King Edmund I of England
  Edmund I of England
  Edmund I , called the Elder, the Deed-doer, the Just, or the Magnificent, was King of England from 939 until his death. He was a son of Edward the Elder and half-brother of Athelstan. Athelstan died on 27 October 939, and Edmund succeeded him as king.-Military threats:Shortly after his...
  
  (born 922)
954
- Eric Bloodaxe
  Eric Bloodaxe
  Eric Haraldsson , nicknamed ‘Bloodaxe’ , was a 10th-century Scandinavian ruler. He is thought to have had short-lived terms as the second king of Norway and possibly as the last independent ruler of the kingdom of Northumbria Eric Haraldsson (Eric, anglicised form of ; died 954), nicknamed...
  
  , King of York (born c. 895)
955
- 23 November - King Eadred of England (born c. 923)
958
- Oda the Severe
  Oda the Severe
  Oda , called the Good or the Severe, was a 10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury in England.-Early career:...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury
959
- Aelfsige
  Aelfsige
  Ælfsige was Bishop of Winchester before he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 959.-Life:Ælfsige became Bishop of Winchester in 951. In 958 he was translated from the see of Winchester to become archbishop of Canterbury....
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury
973
- 15 May - Birthelm
  Birthelm
  Byrhthelm was the Bishop of Wells and briefly the archbishop of Canterbury...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury
975
- 8 July - King Edgar of England
  Edgar of England
  Edgar the Peaceful, or Edgar I , also called the Peaceable, was a king of England . Edgar was the younger son of Edmund I of England.-Accession:...
  
  (born c. 943)
978
- King Edward the Martyr
  Edward the Martyr
  Edward the Martyr was king of the English from 975 until he was murdered in 978. Edward was the eldest son of King Edgar, but not his father's acknowledged heir...
  
  (born c. 962)
988
- Dunstan
  Dunstan
  Dunstan was an Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, a Bishop of Worcester, a Bishop of London, and an Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury (born c. 909)
990
- 13 February - Æthelgar
  Æthelgar
  Æthelgar was Archbishop of Canterbury, and previously Bishop of Selsey.-Biography:Æthelgar was a monk at Glastonbury Abbey before he was the discipulus of Aethelwold the Bishop of Winchester. He then continued as a monk at Abingdon Abbey, until 964 when he was appointed Abbot of the newly reformed...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury
994
- 28 October - Sigeric the Serious
  Sigeric the Serious
  Sigeric was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 990 to 994.It is unclear whether the epithet "The Serious" originated from his learning, or if it derived from transliteration of his name into Latin as Serio.- Biography :...
  
  , Archbishop of Canterbury (born c. 950)

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