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King Ethelred ordered all Danes in England be killed
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Canute defeated Edmund (II) Ironside at Assandun, Essex, in 1016, and became king of all England on Edmund's death.
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Canute marries Emma of Normandy, the widow of Aethelred II. Canute divides England into four earldoms - Northumbria Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia.
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Cnut died at the Abbey in Shaftesbury, Dorset. His burial was in Winchester, the English capitol of the time stronghold of the royal house of Wessex, whom the Danes had overthrown more or less two decades before.
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Following Harthacnut's death on 8 June 1042, Godwin, the most powerful of the English earls, supported Edward, who succeeded to the throne.
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Duke William of Normandy defeats and kills King Harold and becomes king of England.
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In 1066 Duke William of Normandy conquered England.He was crowned King, and most of the lands of the English nobility were soon granted to his followers. Domesday Book was compiled 20 years later.
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William the conquerer dies and his son takes the throne.
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