Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard conquers England.
Events
- Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America
- 1013: Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard conquers England.
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- 1013 – One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau compiled by 1013 was the largest of the Song Chinese encyclopedias. Divided into 1000 volumes, it consisted of 9.4 million written Chinese characters.
Literature
- c. 1010 – The oldest known copy of the epic poem Beowulf was written around this year.
- 1013 – The Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau, a Chinese encyclopedia, is completed by a team of scholars including Wang Qinruo.
- 1014–1020: The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, is written by Avicenna, Persian scholar.