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Nov 13, 1002
St. Brice's Day Massacre
King Ethelred ordered all Danes in England be killed -
Sep 29, 1012
Danes captured Canterbury
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Nov 30, 1016
King Cnut becomes king of England
Canute defeated Edmund (II) Ironside at Assandun, Essex, in 1016, and became king of all England on Edmund's death. -
Feb 20, 1017
King Cnut divides England into four Erldoms
Canute marries Emma of Normandy, the widow of Aethelred II. Canute divides England into four earldoms - Northumbria Wessex, Mercia and East Anglia. -
Nov 12, 1035
Death of Cnut
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. -
Jun 8, 1042
Edward the Confessor became King
Following Harthacnut's death on 8 June 1042, Godwin, the most powerful of the English earls, supported Edward, who succeeded to the throne. -
Dec 25, 1066
Duke William becomes king of England.
Duke William of Normandy defeats and kills King Harold and becomes king of England. -
Jan 1, 1086
Domesday Survey
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. -
Sep 9, 1087
Death of William the conquerer
William the conquerer dies and his son takes the throne. -
Jan 1, 1096
The Crusades Began
