| 793 |
Vikings sack the monastery at Lindisfarne in Northumbria. |
| 794 |
Vikings attack sites in northern Britain, in what we now call Scotland. |
| 795 |
Irish annals record a Viking raid on Rathlin Island, off Ireland's north-east coast. |
| 866 |
York is captured by a Viking army. |
| 870 |
Iceland is colonised by Vikings. |
| 871 |
King Ethelred, the West Saxon king, and his brother Alfred, defeat the Viking army at the Battle of Ashdown (in Berkshire). |
| 876 |
Vikings from Denmark, Norway and Sweden settle permanently in England. |
| 886 |
King Alfred formally agrees a boundary between his kingdom and land ruled by the Viking King Guthrum (an area later called "the Danelaw"). |
| 950 | Vikings from Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Hebrides raid Wales, particularly the coastal monasteries. |
| 954 | Eric Bloodaxe, the last Viking King of Jorvik, is thrown out of York. |
| 980 | Vikings settle in Greenland. |
| 994 | Olaf of Norway and Sven 'Forkbeard', son of the Danish king, lead an invading Danish army in an unsuccessful siege of London, and subsequently ravage the south-east. |
| 1000 | The Vikings reach Newfoundland, but they did not go beyond the coastal area and their settlement was short-lived. |
| 1013 | King Sven of Denmark (with his son Cnut) sail up the rivers Humber and Trent to be accepted as king in the Danelaw. The Saxon king Ethelred the Unready flees abroad. |
| 1014 | Cnut becomes the leader of the Danes on his father's death and king of England after the death of Ethelred and his son Edmund Ironside. |
| 1042 | Ethelred's other son, Edward the Confessor, is invited to return from Normandy as king. |
| 1066 | Harold Godwinson becomes the last Anglo-Saxon king after the death of King Edward. King Harald of Norway invades England and captures York, but is then defeated and killed in the battle of Stamford Bridge. King Harold is defeated by Duke William at the battle of Hastings. |
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