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11th Century Timeline

  • 1002 St. Brice’s Day Massacre
  • 1013 Danes Conquer England
  • 1014 Battle of Contarf
  • 1016 Danes defeated the Saxons at Battle of Assandun
  • 1019 Canute, King of England, also became King of Denmark
  • 1030 King Olaf the Second of Norway killed in the Battle of Stiklestad
  • 1035 Canute, King of England, Denmark and Norway dies
  • 1036 Pope Benedict IX driven out of Rome
  • 1036-1056 Henry III ruled the Holy Roman Empire
  • 1040 Harold I, King of England dies
  • 1040-1057 MacBeth rules Scotland
  • 1042-1066 Edward the Confessor, King of England
  • 1044 Pope Benedict IX driven out of Rome again
  • 1046 Pope Gregory VI abdicates, Benedict IX, Sylvester III, and Gregory VI all claim the papal throne, Henry III makes Clement II pope
  • 1047 Pope Clement II dies
  • 1047 Construction of the Abbaye-aux-Dames is started
  • 1053 Richard of Aversa assists in winning the Battle of Civitae against the Papal Army
  • 1054 Pope Leo IX escapes and returns to Rome.
  • 1054 Official date of the Great Schism
  • 1057 Lady Godiva makes her famous ride in Coventry
  • 1057 MacBeth of Scotland killed in the Battle of Lumphanan
  • 1059 King Philip I of France son of Henry I crowned
  • 1060 Henry I dies
  • 1060 Normans invade Scicily
  • 1065 Westminster Abbey opens
  • 1066 Edward the Confessor dies
  • 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge
  • 1066 Battle of Hastings
  • 1066 William the Conqueror invades and claims the English throne
  • 1070 Hereward the Wake leads revolt against Normans
  • 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV
  • 1077 Pope Gregory VII pardons Henry IV
  • 1077 Windsor Castle built by William the Conqueror
  • 1079 Peter Abelard born
  • 1086 Doomsday Book
  • 1086 Saint Bruno founds the Carthusian order of monks
  • 1087 William the Conquerer dies
  • 1095 – 1099 The first Crusade
  • 1096 As a warm-up, the crusaders massacre the Jews of Werelinghofen, Germany
  • 1096-1097 Crusade of the Poor People
  • 1099 First Crusade Captures Jerusalem
  • 1100 Charter of Liberties