Timeline June 1042

Events in June 1042 4

• 1018 – 1042 Harthacnut (1018-1042) Died 8 June 1042, aged 24 Harthacnut, King of England and Denmark, collapsed and died while drinking at a wedding feast in Lambeth. His death without an heir ended Danish rule in England and opened the way for Edward the Confessor's accession.
• 1042 Magnus the Good becomes King of Denmark Norway and Denmark united under one ruler Following Harthacnut's death, Magnus I of Norway claimed the Danish throne under an earlier mutual-succession pact between the two kings. His accession united Norway and Denmark, a union contested by Danish nobles and the rival claimant Sweyn Estridsen.
• 1042 Edward the Confessor becomes King of England Accession ends Danish rule, restores the House of Wessex Following the death of Harthacnut, the English nobility proclaimed Edward, son of Æthelred the Unready, as king. His accession ended nearly three decades of Danish rule in England and restored the native West Saxon royal line. Edward would reign until 1066, and his death without an heir triggered the Norman Conquest.
• 1042 Constantine IX Monomachos becomes Byzantine Emperor Empress Zoe elevates her third husband after Michael V's fall After Constantinople rose up against Michael V Kalaphates and had him blinded and deposed, the elderly Empress Zoe briefly ruled jointly with her sister Theodora before marrying Constantine Monomachos and raising him to co-emperor. The episode was one of the rare periods of direct female imperial rule in Byzantine history.