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The Vikings

by Mandy Barrow

Celts	Romans	Saxons	Vikings	Normans	Tudors	Victorians	WW ll

500 BC	AD 43	450	793	1066	1485	1837	1939

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Viking Timeline

793	First invasion by the Vikings. They raided monasteries on the coast including Lindisfarne, off the coast of Northumbria.
794	First raids on Scotland and Ireland.
820	Viking raids continue around the English coast
821	Wessex becomes the Supreme Kingdom
865	Great Viking Army from Denmark Invades England
866	Danes capture York (which the Vikings called Jorvik) and make it their kingdon (land ruled by a king)
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 the Great defeats the Vikings but allows them to settle in Eastern England (the Kingdoms of York and East Anglia) This area on England becomes known as Danelaw and is ruled by the Viking King Guthrum.
901-937	Eastern England (Danelaw) is conquered by the English
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	New Viking Raids on England
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.
1014	King Canute (Cnut) of Denmark captures the English Crown
1042	Edward the Confessor becomes King (A Saxon King)

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