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
