{"slug": "swein-forkbeard", "label": "Swein Forkbeard", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swein_Forkbeard", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181896", "qid": "Q181896", "description": "King of Denmark, England, and Norway", "entries": 17, "years": 16, "span": [960, 1014], "span_label": ["960 CE", "1014 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Sweyn Forkbeard"], "related": [{"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 10}, {"slug": "denmark", "label": "Denmark", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "northumbria", "label": "Northumbria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cnut", "label": "Cnut", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "harald-bluetooth", "label": "Harald Bluetooth", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "olaf-tryggvason", "label": "Olaf Tryggvason", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wessex", "label": "Wessex", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mercia", "label": "Mercia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edward-the-confessor", "label": "Edward the Confessor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thelred-the-unready", "label": "Æthelred the Unready", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 960, "year_label": "960 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and England (d. 1014)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272128#Births", "title": "960", "revid": 1365272128, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 963, "year_label": "963 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "April 17", "text": "April 17 – Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and Norway (d. 1014)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272224#Births", "title": "963", "revid": 1365272224, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 983, "year_label": "983 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Harald Bluetooth rebels against the overlordship of Otto II. A Danish Viking army under his son Sweyn Forkbeard invades the March of Schleswig – along the northern border of modern Denmark. The Sorb Slavs in northern Germany overrun and conquer the March of Zeitz (Marca Geronis) from Saxon control.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341908613#Europe", "title": "983", "revid": 1341908613, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 986, "year_label": "986 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Winter – King Harald II (Bluetooth) dies after a 28-year reign (driven into exile). He is succeeded by his son Sweyn Forkbeard as ruler of Denmark and Norway.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272436#Europe", "title": "986", "revid": 1365272436, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 990, "year_label": "990 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The city of Lund, Sweden is founded, during the reign of the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341908655#Europe", "title": "990", "revid": 1341908655, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 994, "year_label": "994 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – Viking Age: Danish Viking raiders, (probably) under King Sweyn Forkbeard, plunder the city of Stade (Lower Saxony). Count Lothair Udo I is captured and killed, during the battle with the pirates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350027284#Europe", "title": "994", "revid": 1350027284, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 999, "year_label": "999 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 (999 or 1000) – Battle of Svolder: A Norwegian fleet, commanded by Olaf Tryggvason in his longship Ormrinn langi, is defeated by the combined fleet of the Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard and his Swedish counterpart Olof Skötkonung, resulting in Tryggvason's death, and the splitting up of Norway between Sweden and Denmark.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468443#Europe", "title": "AD 999", "revid": 1364468443, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1000, "year_label": "1000 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In Scandinavia, Christianization was in its early stages, with the Althing of the Icelandic Commonwealth embracing Christianity in the year 1000. On September 9, the King of Norway, Olaf Tryggvason, was defeated by the Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark and Sweden in the Battle of Svolder. Sweyn Forkbeard established Danish control over part of Norway. The city of Oslo was founded in Norway (the exact year is debatable, but the 1,000 year anniversary was held in the year 2000). It is known that in or around this year, Norse explorer Leif Erikson became the first European to land in the Americas, at L'Anse aux Meadows in modern-day Newfoundland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373370885#Christendom", "title": "AD 1000", "revid": 1373370885, "section": "Events › Christendom"}}, {"year": 1002, "year_label": "1002 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Æthelred pays tribute (or Danegeld) to Sweyn Forkbeard, buying him off with a massive payment of 24,000 lbs of silver to hold off further Viking raids against England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371270947#British_Isles", "title": "1002", "revid": 1371270947, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1003, "year_label": "1003 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Sweyn I (Forkbeard) lands with a Danish Viking fleet in East Anglia, ravaging the countryside. Northumbria surrenders to him (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369535158#England", "title": "1003", "revid": 1369535158, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1004, "year_label": "1004 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Danish Viking fleet under Sweyn Forkbeard lands in Norfolk. Ealdorman Ulfcytel orders his Anglo-Saxon troops to burn the raiding ships. The plan fails and Ulfcytel's small army is defeated by the Vikings.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369529611#England", "title": "1004", "revid": 1369529611, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1005, "year_label": "1005 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Danish Viking raiders under Sweyn Forkbeard continue to ravage the cities (mostly poorly defended) in southern England. A famine strikes Sweyn's army, which has to live off the land.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341910116#British_Isles", "title": "1005", "revid": 1341910116, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1006, "year_label": "1006 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Summer–Autumn – Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard raid south-eastern England from the Isle of Wight to Reading in the Thames Valley where they overwinter at the Wallingford river crossing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344800605#Europe", "title": "1006", "revid": 1344800605, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1009, "year_label": "1009 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard repeatedly attack southern England, destroying the land to avenge the St. Brice's Day massacre of 1002.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341910037#England", "title": "1009", "revid": 1341910037, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1013, "year_label": "1013 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard (accompanied by his son Cnut) sail from Denmark to attack England. Again London defends itself and the Vikings move elsewhere, plundering Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria. King Æthelred the Unready sends his sons Edward and Alfred to Normandy. Æthelred retreats to the Isle of Wight and follows them later into exile.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212600#England", "title": "1013", "revid": 1342212600, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1014, "year_label": "1014 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – Sweyn Forkbeard, king of Denmark and England (b. 960)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212610#Deaths", "title": "1014", "revid": 1342212610, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1014, "year_label": "1014 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – King Sweyn Forkbeard dies at Gainsborough after a reign of five weeks. He is succeeded by Harald II who becomes king of Denmark, while Cnut is elected by the Vikings of the Danelaw as king of England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212610#England", "title": "1014", "revid": 1342212610, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}]}