793 |
Vikings plunder monastery of Lindisfarne. |
795 |
First recorded Viking raids on Scotland and Ireland. |
800 |
The Oseberg Viking longship is buried about this time. |
825 |
Mercians defeated by Egbert of Wessex at Wroughton who annexes Kent, Essex, Surrey and Sussex. |
835 |
Danish raid on Kent. |
841 |
Viking settlers found the city of Dublin in Ireland. |
851 |
Vikings winter in Thanet and attack London and Canterbury. |
865 |
Danish Great Army lands in East Anglia. |
866 |
Danish Vikings establish a kingdom in York, England. |
866-7 |
Danes attack Northumbria. |
867-8 |
Danes move into Mercia. |
870 |
East Anglia falls to the Danes. Murder of St Edmund.
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871 |
Danes attack Wessex and Alfred the Great becomes king. |
874 |
Mercia falls to the Danes. |
878 |
Alfred defeats the Danes at Edington and Guthrum is baptised. |
886 |
Alfred divides England with the Danes under the Danelaw pact (Treaty of Wedmore). |
899 |
Death of Alfred. Edward the Elder bcomes king of Wessex. |
900 |
The Vikings raid along the Mediterranean coast. |
910-20 |
Edward and Aethelflaed reconquer most of Danelaw. |
911 |
The Viking chief Rollo is granted land by the Franks and founds Normandy in France. |
?919 |
Norse kingdom of York is founded by Raegnald. |