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| 1014 |
| | | Brian Boru, aged 73, achieves a major victory over the Vikings at Clontarf but is killed in his tent after the battle | |
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| 1017 |
| | | Canute, joint king of Denmark, is accepted also as king of England after subduing the country and marrying Ethelred's widow | |
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| 1040 |
| | | In a battle near Elgin Macbeth kills his cousin Duncan, a rival claimant to the Scottish throne | |
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| 1042 |
| | | Edward the Confessor, the rightful heir in the Anglo-Saxon royal line, becomes king of England | |
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| 1057 |
| | | Duncan's son, Malcolm, kills Macbeth in battle at Lumphanan - and in the following year is himself crowned at Scone | |
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| 1066 |
| | | On his death bed in Westminster, Edward the Confessor designates Harold - foremost among England's barons - as his successor | |
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| 1066 |
| | | Edward the Confessor is buried in his new abbey church at Westminster, consecrated only the previous week | |
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| 1066 |
| | | On the day of Edward's burial, Harold is crowned king - almost certainly in the same abbey church at Westminster | |
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| 1066 |
| | | Halley's comet, appearing in the Normans' annus mirabilis, is later depicted in the Bayeux tapestry | |
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| 1066 |
| | | Harold defeats at Stamford Bridge the joint army of his brother Tostig and of the Norwegian king, Harald Hardraade | |
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