Index
January
- January 5, 1066: Death of King Edward the Confessor
- January 6, 1066: Coronation of King Harold Godwinesson
- January 13, 858: Death of King Æthelwulf of Wessex
- January 18, 802: Pope cancels short-lived Archbishopric of Lichfield (787-802)
- January 20, 640: Death of King Eadbald of Kent
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February
- February 3, 1014: Death of King Sveinn of Denmark; Cnut succeeds
- February 5, 1037: Death of prince Alfred, son of Æthelred, at Ely
- February 6, 685: Death of King Hlothhere of Kent
- February 15, 670: Death of King Oswiu of Northumbria
- February 24, 616: Death of King Æthelberht of Kent
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March
- March 1, 991: Peace between King Æthelred and Duke Richard of Normandy
- March 2, 672: Death of Saint Chad
- March 7, 1052: Death of Lady Emma, the Queen-mother
- March 8, c. 647: Death of St Felix, first bishop of East Anglia
- March 12, 951: Death of Ælfheah "the Bald", bishop of Winchester 934-951
- March 17, 1040: Death of King Harold Harefoot
- March 18, 978: Death of King Edward the Martyr
- March 20, 687: Death of St Cuthbert
- March 21, 867: Kings Osberht and Ælle killed trying to retake York from the Vikings
- March 22, 778: Three Northumbrian high-reeves killed, possibly on the king's orders
- March 23, 878: Alfred the Great makes a stronghold at Athelney
- March 24, 832: Death of Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury
- March 26, 668: Theodore of Tarsus consecrated archbishop of Canterbury
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April
- April 2, 798: Battle at Whalley: Eardwulf of Northumbria defeats conspiracy of his enemies
- April 3, 1043: Edward the Confessor consecrated king at Winchester
- April 12, 627: Conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria
- April 15, 1053: Death of Godwine; Harold becomes Earl of Wessex
- April 18, 796: Murder of King Æthelred of Northumbria
- April 19, 1057: Death of Edward the Exile
- April 20, 689: Death of King Cædwalla of Wessex, in Rome
- April 23, 1016: Death of King Æthelred the Unready
- April 24, 624: Death of Archbishop Mellitus of Canterbury
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May
- May 4, 979: Coronation of King Æthelred the Unready
- May 11, 973: Second coronation of King Edgar
- May 20, 685: Battle of Nechtansmere: King Ecgfrith of Northumbria dies, fighting the Picts
- May 26, 946: Death of King Edmund, stabbed by Leofa at Pucklechurch
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July
- July 2, 863: Death of St Swithun, Bishop of Winchester
- July 8, 901: Death of Grimbald of St-Bertin
- July 12, 927: King Æthelstan brings all other British kings under his rule at Eamont
- July 15, 971: Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester translates (moves the body of) St Swithun
- July 17, 924: Death of King Edward the Elder
- July 21, 625: Consecration of Paulinus as bishop for Northumbria
- July 23, 596: Pope Gregory refuses to excuse Augustine from converting the English
- July 24/25, 759: King Oswulf of Northumbria killed by his own men
- July 29, 796: Death of King Offa of Mercia
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August
- August 2 (?), 924: Death of Ælfweard, son of King Edward the Elder
- August 5/6, 910: Battle of Wednesfield/Tettenhall (Mercians and West Saxons defeat Northumbrian Vikings)
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September
- September 25, 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge
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October
- October 14, 1066: Battle of Hastings
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November
- November 12, 1035: Death of King Cnut
- November 13, 1002: St Brice's Day Massacre: All Danes in England to be killed
- November 15, 655: Battle of Winwæd: Oswiu of Northumbria kills Penda of Mercia
- November 20, 869: King (and Saint) Edmund of East Anglia killed by Vikings
- November 23, 955: Death of King Eadred
- November 30, 1016: Death of Edmund Ironside: Cnut becomes king over all England
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December
- December 3, 902: Death of Queen Ealhswith, wife of Alfred
- December 13, 902: Battle of the Holme: King Edward the Elder defeats Æthelwold
- December 14, 705: Death of King Aldfrith of Northumbria
- December 25, 1066: Coronation of William the Conqueror
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