Events
- 902
- Irish Norsemen, expelled from Dublin, establish colonies on The Wirral.
- 910–920
- Edward the Elder, King of Wessex, and his daughter, Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, conquer most of the Danelaw.
- 910
- 5 August - Battle of Tettenhall: Edward the Elder, King of Wessex, defeats a Viking army.
- 911
- Edward transfers London and Oxford from Mercia to Wessex.
- 913
- Æthelflæd rebuilds the ruined town of Tamworth as a burh and capital of Mercia.
- 914 or 923
- Death of Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 915
- First Battle of Corbridge: Viking victory over the Anglo-Saxons.
- King Edward occupies Bedford.
- 917
- King Edward captures Derby and seizes control of East Anglia. All Danes south of the Humber submit to his rule.
- 918
- Æthelflæd of Mercia dies; Edward the Elder takes control of her kingdom.
- Welsh princes pay homage to Edward.
- Second Battle of Corbridge.
- 919
- Ragnall ua Ímair seizes control of the Kingdom of York.
- 920
- Norse Vikings under Sitric Cáech attack Cheshire.
- Constantine II of Scotland, and the kings of Strathclyde, York, and Northumbria acknowledge Edward the Elder as their overlord.
- c. 923
- Athelm enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 924
- 17 July - Edward the Elder dies and is succeeded by Æthelstan as King of Wessex.
- 925
- 4 September - Coronation of Æthelstan as King of Wessex.
- 926
- 8 January - Death of Athelm, Archbishop of Canterbury. He will be succeeded by Wulfhelm.
- 30 January - A sister of King Æthelstan, perhaps Edith of Polesworth, is married to Sitric Cáech, the squint-eyed Norse King of Northumbria and Dublin (died 927), in Tamworth.
- 927
- King Æthelstan occupies York following the death of Sitric Cáech.
- King Æthelstan of Wessex unites the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy into the Kingdom of England.
- 12 July - Kings of Scotland and Strathclyde acknowledge Æthelstan as their overlord.
- 928
- King Æthelstan defeats the Welsh, and sets the border of Wales at the River Wye.
- King Æthelstan subdues the Cornish, and sets the border of Cornwall at the River Tamar.
- 931
- Æthelstan holds the first Council of All England, at Colchester.
- 933
- Æthelstan founds Milton Abbey in Dorset.
- 934
- Æthelstan invades Scotland, reaching as far as Caithness.
- 935
- Æthelstan mints the first coins proclaiming himself to be "King of All Britain".
- 937
- Battle of Brunanburh: King Æthelstan defeats Olaf III Guthfrithsson, the Norse-Gael King of Dublin, Constantine II, King of Scots, and Owen I, King of Strathclyde.
- 939
- Failed expedition to support King Louis IV of France against the Germans.
- King Æthelstan dies and is succeeded by his brother Edmund I of England.
- The Norse-Gael King of Dublin Olaf III Guthfrithsson captures York.
- 940
- King Edmund cedes Northumbria and the Five Boroughs to Olaf Guthfrithsson.
- Saint Dunstan becomes abbot of Glastonbury and initiates monastic reform and revival.
- King Edmund summons Dunstan to his court where he becomes a favourite.
- 941
- Olaf Guthfrithsson dies; Óláfr Sigtryggsson succeeds him as King of Northumbria.
- 12 February - Death of Wulfhelm, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Oda enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 942
- King Edmund re-captures the Five Boroughs.
- 943
- Vikings take Tamworth.
- 944
- King Edmund takes York from the Vikings.
- 945
- King Edmund invades Strathclyde, and grants Cumbria to King Malcolm I of Scotland.
- 946
- 26 May - King Edmund is murdered by an exiled criminal at Pucklechurch and succeeded by his brother Eadred of England.
- 947
- Wulfstan I, Archbishop of York invites the Viking leader Eric Bloodaxe to become King of Northumbria.
- 948
- King Eadred expels Eric Bloodaxe from Northumbria.
- King Malcolm I of Scotland raids Northumbria.
- 949
- Óláfr Sigtryggsson returns as King of Northumbria.
- 952
- Eric Bloodaxe reconquers York.
- King Eadred imprisons Wulfstan of York.
- 954
- Eric Bloodaxe dies allowing King Eadred to recover York.
- 955
- 23 November - King Eadred dies and is succeeded by his nephew Eadwig.
- 956
- Dunstan exiled after quarreling with King Eadwig.
- 957
- Dunstan re-founds abbeys at Bath, Exeter, Malmesbury, and Westminster.
- Mercia and Northumbria rebel, choosing Edgar of England as King.
- 958
- 2 June - Death of Oda of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 959
- Ælfsige enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury but dies en route to Rome.
- Birthelm enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1 October - King Edy dies and is succeeded by his brother Edgar of England.
- Edgar overturns the appointment of Birthelm as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Dunstan enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 961
- Saint Oswald becomes Bishop of Worcester; he establishes or re-founds abbeys at Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, Evesham, Pershore, and Winchcombe.
- 963
- King Edgar grants legal autonomy to the Danelaw.
- Æthelwold becomes Bishop of Winchester; re-founds abbeys at Ely and Peterborough.
- c. 970
- Regularis Concordia produced at Winchester.
- 971
- 15 July The planned removal of the body of Saint Swithun during the re-building of Winchester Cathedral delayed by 40 days due to rain.
- Kenneth II of Scotland raids England, reaching as far as Yorkshire.
- 973
- 11 May - Coronation of King Edgar at Bath.
- Edgar sails to Chester, and receives homage from the rulers of Alba, Strathclyde, Wales, and the Kingdom of the Isles.
- 975
- 8 July - King Edgar dies and is succeeded by his 12-year-old son Edward.
- 978
- 18 March - King Edward is murdered by the servants of his stepmother Queen Ælfthryth at Corfe Castle. He is succeeded by his stepbrother Æthelred the Unready.
- 980
- Vikings begin a new wave of raids on England.
- 981
- Danish raids on Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall begin, and continue for a further seven years.
- 985
- King Æthelred grants lands at Hēatūn to Lady Wulfrun by royal charter, thus founding what will become Wolverhampton.
- 988
- 19 May - Death of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Æthelgar enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 990
- 13 February - Death of Æthelgar, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Sigeric the Serious enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 991
- 1 March - Æthelred signs a treaty with Duke Richard I of Normandy, by which each agrees not to aid the others enemies.
- August - Norse invasion force sacks Ipswich.
- 10 August - Battle of Maldon: Danes defeat the English army.
- The first Danegeld, of £10,000, is paid to the Danes in return for their leaving England.
- 993
- Danes raid Northumbria.
- 994
- Norse and Danish armies ravage the south-east, but fail to capture London.
- £16,000 of Danegeld paid.
- Olaf II of Norway is baptised at Andover, and swears not to return to England.
- 995
- Ælfric of Abingdon enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Ælfric of Eynsham completes his Catholic Homilies.
- 997
- King Æthelred issues a law code at Wantage, defining the legal position in the Danelaw and introducing trial by jury.
- Ælfric of Eynsham completes the English Lives of Saints.
- 998
- Danes raid southern and western coasts.
- 999
- Danes raid Kent, attacking Rochester.
- 1000
- English fleet invades the Isle of Man.
- English invasion of Cumbria fails.
- Heroic poem The Battle of Maldon composed.
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