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| 0994 CE | Canute (994-1035), or 'Knut'/'Cnut', son of Svein, or 'Sweyn', the King of Denmark and later King of England, Denmark and Norway, was born. | |
| 1013 CE | Svein Fork-Beard and Canute attack England. | |
| 3 Feb 1014 CE | Svein (Sweyn) Fork-Beard, King of Denmark, dies at York. He is suceeded by his son and commander-in-chief, Canute. | |
| Feb 1014 CE | The English recall Ethelred the Unready to England as King and Svein's successor, Canute, flees to Denmark. | |
| 1015 CE | Canute again invades England and there is war between the Danes and the Saxons. | |
| Apr 1016 CE | Ethelred the Unready dies and Edmund II (Ironside) becomes King of England. Canute attempts to take the English throne with the support of most of the nobels. | |
| c. May 1016 CE | In an attempt to consolidate his position Canute marries Emma of Normandy, the widow of Ethelred the Unready, even though he is already married. | |
| 18 Oct 1016 CE | Danes defeat Saxons at Battle of Assandun (now Ashingdon) in Essex, and subsequently Canute and Edmund make peace. | |
| 18 Oct 1016 CE | Treaty between Canute and Edmund Ironside son of son of Ethelred (the Unready) II. Edmund was to have Wessex and Canute everything north of the Thames. It was also agreed that whoever survived the other would take control of the whole realm. | |
| 30 Nov 1016 CE | Edmund II (Ironside) dies unexpectedly of natural causes and Canute, Prince of Denmark became King of all England as Canute I. | |
| 1016 CE | Uhtred, an earl of the North of England, was assasinated at Canute's court at Wighill near York. He was visiting Canute in the hope of making peace. He never got to see the king. | |
| 1016 CE | Olaf Haraldsson (Olaff II) becomes King of Norway. | |
| 1017 CE | King Canute divides England into four earldoms. Two of these appointments were a Norwegian called Eric Hlathir as Earl of York, and Eadulf Cudel of the house of Bamburgh as the Earl of Northumbria north of the Tees. | |
| 1019 CE | Canute, King of England, also became King of Denmark as Canute II or Canute the Great. | |
| 1028 CE | King Canute conquers Norway, displacing Olaf Haraldsson and puts Canute's son, Sweyn, on the Norwegian throne. | |
| 1030 CE | Olaf Haraldsson leads a rebellion in Norway. Sweyn's forces was defeated and kill him at the Battle of Stiklestad. | |
| 1031 CE | According to the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, King Canute travels to Scotland where he forces the Scottish Kings into submission. | |
| 12 Nov 1035 CE | King Canute, King of England, Denmark and Norway, dies. His possessions are divided and Harold I, Harefoot, becomes King of England and Hardicanute becomes King of Denmark. | |
| Dec 1037 CE | Harold I Harefoot, illegitimate son of Canute, becomes King of England afterbeing proposed by Leofric. | |
| 17 Mar 1040 CE | Harthacnut, son of Canute and Emma of Normandy, becomes King of England. | |
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