999 Danegelt first levied, to bribe the Danes to leave the kingdom.
1002 November 13, a general massacre of the Danes began at Welwin in Hertfordshire.
1012 The priests first inhibited from marrying.
1014 Selling English children and kindred to Ireland, prohibited.
1017 Canute caused the assassins of Edmund, and the traitor Edric who by a plot of regicide had advanced him to the throne, to be hanged.
1040 Macbeth murders Duncan king of Scotland.
1058 Edward the Confessor began to cure the King’s evil. Godiva relieved Coventry from some heavy taxes by riding naked through the town.
1060 The cross of Waltham erected.
1065 The Saxon laws written in Latin.
1066 William Fitzosborne created earl of Hereford, being the first Earl created in this kingdom.