Monarch – Ethelred (to December 1013), Sweyn (December 1013 to 3 February 1014), Ethelred (3 February 1014 to 23 April 1016), Edmund II (23 April to 30 November 1016), then Canute
March – Æthelred returns to reclaim his throne at the invitation of English nobles.[3]
April – Cnut returns to Denmark to enforce his rule there.
Possible date – Olaf II Haraldsson of Norway perhaps attacks London in support of Æthelred.[4]
Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York preaches his Latin homily Sermo Lupi ad Anglos ("Wulf's Address to the English"), describing the Danes as "God's judgement on England".[1]