chronology
olaf Haraldsson,
mandy,
who accompanied ^Ethelred on his return from Nor-
leaves to claim the kingship of Norway
and challenge the
Danish overlordship 1015
Knut returns to England and begins an extensive campaign of conquest
1016
/Ethelred dies and
is
succeeded by his son,
Edmund Ironside. After
Edmund's defeat in battle at Assandun England is partitioned between Knut and Edmund, who retains Wessex. After Edmund's death on 30 November Knut is recognized as king by the English, who agree to pay a tribute of 82,500 pounds 1019 c.
1025
Knut succeeds his brother Harald
as king of the
Danes
Treaty between Olaf Haraldsson and the Icelanders
1026
Denmark is invaded by a coalition of Norwegians and Svear under Olaf Haraldsson and Anund Jacob, and are opposed by Knut in the battle
1027
Knut visits Rome and attends the imperial coronation of Conrad I
of the Holy River
from Norway
1028
Knut
1029
Olaf Haraldsson and his son Magnus are given refuge
expels Olaf Haraldsson
in
Novgorod by
Iaroslav
1030
Olaf Haraldsson returns to Norway, and is killed at Stiklestad on 30 June; Knut's decision to send his son Sven and Sven's mother,
1035
Knut
1037
Harald, Knut's son by /Elfgifu,
/Elfgifu, to rule
Norway is unpopular
Winchester and is succeeded in Denmark by Harthaknut, his son by Emma; Magnus, son of Olaf Haraldsson, is recognized as king of Norway dies in
is
finally
accepted by all as king of Eng-
land
1040
Harald, king of England, dies and
1042
Harthaknut
dies,
and
is
is
succeeded by Harthaknut
succeeded as king of England by Edward the
Confessor, son ofyEthelred; the claim of Sven Estridsson, Knut's
nephew, to be Danish king is frustrated by the recognition of the Norwegian Magnus as king by the Danes 1047
Magnus of Norway dies and is succeeded
1052
Diarmait, king of Leinster, seizes Dublin
1053
Pope Leo IX formally gives the archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen authority over Norway, Iceland, and Greenland as well as over the Danes and Svear
1056-80
Isleif,
c.1060
Skuldelev 2
in
Norway by his uncle,
Harald Hardrada; Sven Estridsson succeeds
1066
the
first is
as king of the
Danes
Icelandic bishop built in or near
Dublin
The division of Denmark into
regular dioceses
The
established at Skara in Vastergotland
first
regular Swedish see
is
is
completed
Edward the Confessor dies; Harald Hardrada claims the succession but is killed on 25 September in the battle of Stamford Bridge; Harold Godwinesson is killed in battle near Hastings on 14 October; on 25 December William, duke of Normandy, is crowned king of the English
1069
280
Sven Estridsson sends a fleet to support English resistance to William, but the Danes are unwilling to confront him