St. Brice's Day Massacre
November 13, 1002
King Ethelred the Unready ordered every Dane in England killed on the feast of St. Brice. Panicked mobs burned a church at Oxford with its Danish refugees inside. Among the victims was said to be Gunhilde, sister of Sweyn Forkbeard, who would return with an army to collect the debt.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.