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1002 King Aethelred marries Emma of
Normandy. |
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1002 King Aethelred orders all Danish men to
be killed. |
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1002 Pallig Forkbeard is killed. |
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1003 Svein Forkbeard brings his army to
avenge his brother's death. |
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1005 Svein Forkbeard takes his army back to
Denmark because of famine . |
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1013 Svein comes back with his son Canute
... to conquer England . |
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1013 Aethelred is defeated and escapes to
Normandy . |
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1014 Svein dies, Aethelred defeats Canute
and is King again. Canute escapes to Denmark. |
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1016 Aethelred dies and Edmund becomes King. |
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1016 Canute defeats Edmund at the Battle of
Ashingdon. |
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1016 Canute is King of the Danelaw and
Edmund is allowed to be King of Wessex. |
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1016 Edmund dies and Canute takes over the
whole country. |
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1017 Canute marries Emma of Normandy. |
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1018 Canute's brother, the King of Denmark
dies... Canute becomes King of Denmark as well. |
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1019 Canute captures Norway and becomes King
there too. |
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1020 Scotland agrees to let Canute be King. |
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1035 Canute dies .. he is forty years old.
Harald becomes King |
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1040 Harald dies, Harthacnut becomes King. |
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1042 Harthacnut dies, Edward becomes King. |
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1066 Edward dies, Harold becomes King. |
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1066 Harold is shot in the eye at the Battle
of Hastings and dies, William becomes King. |
