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| 1014 |
| | | Brian Boru, aged 73, achieves a major victory over the Vikings at Clontarf but is killed in his tent after the battle | |
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| 1017 |
| | | Canute, joint king of Denmark, is accepted also as king of England after subduing the country and marrying Ethelred's widow | |
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| c. 1020 |
| | | Count Radbot builds himself a 'hawk's castle' or Habichstburg, near Zurich, from which the Habsburg dynasty takes its name | |
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| 1024 |
| | | Conrad II is elected as the German king, begining the dynasty variously known as Franconian or Salian | |
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| c. 1030 |
| | | Yaroslav builds up his Russian kingdom and turns his capital, Kiev, into a spectacular Christian city | |
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| 1042 |
| | | Edward the Confessor, the rightful heir in the Anglo-Saxon royal line, becomes king of England | |
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| c. 1050 |
| | | Ife emerges as a powerful kingdom in the equatorial forest of the lower Niger | |
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| 1055 |
| | | Togrul Beg enters Baghdad and is granted by the caliph the title of sultan, which becomes hereditary in his Seljuk dynasty | |
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| 1057 |
| | | Duncan's son, Malcolm, kills Macbeth in battle at Lumphanan - and in the following year is himself crowned at Scone | |
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| 1066 |
| | | On his death bed in Westminster, Edward the Confessor designates Harold - foremost among England's barons - as his successor | |
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