| 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. |
| 911 |
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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