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Religion. April 19 – Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury in England, is murdered by his Danish captors at Greenwich (after refusing to pay a ransom of 3,000 pounds for his release). May 12 – Pope Sergius IV dies after a 3-year pontificate at Rome. He is succeeded by Benedict VIII as the 143rd pope of the Catholic Church.
Ælfheah[ a][ b] ( c. 953 – 19 April 1012), more commonly known today as Alphege, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury. He became an anchorite before being elected abbot of Bath Abbey. His reputation for piety and sanctity led to his promotion to the episcopate and, eventually, to his becoming archbishop.
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) ... 1012 – Duke Oldřich of Bohemia deposes and blinds his brother Jaromír, who flees to Poland.
Thorkell the Tall, also known as Thorkell the High in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( Old Norse: Þorke (ti)ll inn hávi; Norwegian: Torkjell Høge; Swedish: Torkel Höge; Danish: Torkild den Høje ), was a prominent member of the Jomsviking order and a notable lord. He was a son of the Scanian chieftain Strut-Harald, and a brother of Jarl Sigvaldi ...
April 17, 1912 (Wednesday) Russian soldiers killed 270 striking gold miners and wounded 270 others after firing into a crowd as they protested. The miners had gone on strike in Siberia to demand a reduction in the workday and improved food and sanitation. The dead were buried in a mass grave. [ 63]
Æthelred II ( Old English: Æþelræd, [ n 1] pronounced [ˈæðelræːd]; Old Norse: Aðalráðr; c. 966 – 23 April 1016), known as Æthelred the Unready, was King of the English from 978 to 1013 and again from 1014 until his death in 1016. [ 1] His epithet comes from the Old English word unræd meaning "poorly advised"; it is a pun on his ...
18 October – Battle of Ashingdon: Cnut defeats King Edmund, leaving the latter as king of Wessex only. [ 2] 30 November – King Edmund dies and Cnut takes control of the whole country. [ 2] 1017. c. July – Cnut marries Æthelred's widow Emma of Normandy. [ 1] Cnut divides England into the four Earldoms of Wessex, Mercia, East Anglia and ...
1012 Sarema (prov. designation: A924 AD or 1924 PM) is a dark background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 21 kilometers (13 miles) kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 12 January 1924, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory at Heidelberg, Germany. [ 1 ]