Duke Stephen of Hungary receives the royal title from Pope Sylvester II.
First invasion of India by Mahmud. See "[MAHOMETANS IN INDIA]," v, 151.
1002. Massacre of Danes in England; the Day of St. Brice.
Henry, Duke of Bavaria, elected king of Germany on the death of Otho III.
1003. Sweyn of Denmark invades England to avenge the massacre of his people.
1013. After various repulses and successes Sweyn takes nearly the whole of England; King Ethelred and his Queen flee to her brother Richard, Duke of Normandy.
Imperial coronation of Henry II.
1014. Death of Sweyn. Ethelred returns to England; he battles with the Danes, under Sweyn's son, Canute, who is driven from the country.
King Brian, the Brian Boroimhe or Boru, the most famous of Irish kings, defeats the Danes at the battle of Clontarf, but perishes in the conflict.
1016. Pope Benedict VIII repulses the Saracens at Luni, Tuscany; they besiege Salerno and are defeated by the aid of a band of Norman pilgrims returning from Jerusalem.