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Saint Brice’s Day massacre

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- In United Kingdom: The Danish conquest and the reigns of the Danish kings
  …the Danes in England on St. Brice’s Day, 1002, called for vengeance by Sweyn and, from 1009 to 1012, by a famous Viking, Thorkell the Tall. In 1013 the English, worn out by continuous warfare and heavy tributes to buy off the invaders, accepted Sweyn as king. Ethelred, his wife…
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Ethelred the Unready
- In Ethelred the Unready
  …further invasions by launching a massacre of Danish settlers (Nov. 13, 1002). By the end of 1013 the Danish king Sweyn I had been accepted as king in England, and Ethelred had fled to Normandy.
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Sweyn I
- In Sweyn I
  …1004 in retaliation for the St. Brice’s Day massacre of Danes in England on November 13, 1002.
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