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Nevertheless, the Danes had as late as 1206 still not abandoned their hopes of reclaiming England, if Lambert of Ardres is to be believed. [44] In 1240 Matthew Paris wrote in his Chronica Majora that "rumours abounded in England that the Danes were preparing to invade the kingdom". These fears were probably groundless.
The Danes did not give up their designs on England. From 1016 to 1035, ... 1085 − Knut, now king, assembles a fleet for a major invasion against England.
The Battle of Fishguard was a military invasion of Great Britain by Revolutionary France during the War of the First Coalition. The brief campaign, on 22–24 February 1797, is the most recent landing on British soil by a hostile foreign force, and thus is often referred to as the "last invasion of mainland Britain".
Over a three-month period the Danes wasted East Anglia, burning Thetford and Cambridge; 1013 Sweyn Forkbeards invasion of England: Kingdom of Denmark: Kingdom of England: Danish victory. Sweyn Forkbeard becomes king of England and dies shortly after; 1015–1016 Olav II's conquest of Norway (1015–1016) Raid on Denmark; Kingdom of Sweden ...
Sweyn Forkbeard conquered England by 1013, forcing King Æthelred of England to exile by the end of the year. However, Sweyn died on 2 February 1014, and the Danes proclaimed his son, Cnut, as king. Meanwhile, the English nobility recalled Æthelred who successfully expelled the Danes by the summer of 1014.
1004- Danes under Sweyn land in England and sacks Exeter,Thetford and Norwich; 1013 – "Svend Tveskæg" launch’s a full scale invasion of England and is recognised as the new King of England; 1014 - North Sea empire established.
616: Autumn – Northumbria invaded and conquered Elmet. 616: Likeliest date for the Battle of Chester, between a Northumbrian army and a Welsh army: heavy Welsh casualties, and their defeat severed the land connection between Wales and the Celts of northwest Britain.
The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, northern and eastern England, and the Scanian provinces of modern-day southern Sweden, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age. They founded what became the Kingdom of Denmark.