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| 8.6.793 | • raid on Lindesfarne (coast of Northumberland) |
| 794 | • raid on another northumbrian monastery (probably Jarrow) |
| 795 | • raids on monasterys of Skye, Iona (Heriden) and Rathlin (NE - coast of Ireland) |
| 798 | |
| 799 | • first documented raid on europ. mainland (monasterys St. Philibert of Noirmoutier - Loire estuary) |
| 802 | • raid on Iona (burned down) • † Beorhtric (king of the West Saxons) |
| 804 | |
| 806 | • raid on Iona |
| 809 | • king of Abodrits killed by king Godfreds men |
| 810 | • Danish fleet attacks Frisia |
| 812 | • † Hemming king of the Danes |
| 817 | • Ordinatio imperi |
| 823 | • archbishop Ebo's mission to Denmark |
| 826 | • Ansgar's first mission to Denmark |
| 829/30 | • Ansgar's first mission to Sweden (Birka) |
| 832 | • Svedes plunder Armargh (Irland) |
| 834 - 837 | • annual raids on Dorestad |
| 835 | • raid on Sheppey |
| 836 | • victory against the army of Wessex • raid on Ireland • monks of St. Philibert flee from Noirmoutier to the mainland |
| 837 | • Rus arrive at the court of Louis the Pius |
| 838 | • vikings winter in Ireland |
| 839 | • vikings attack the picts • vikings plunder the region around Lough Neagh |
| 840 | • † emperor Ludwig |
| • vinking - fleet winter at Lough Neagh | |
| 841 | • raid on the Seine valley • vinking fleet winter at Dublin |
| 842 | • Quentovic and Hamwick sacked |
| 843 | • Nantes sacked |
| 844 | • raids on Al-Andalus, Galicia and Toulouse • Lisbon, Cadiz, Seville, Medina Sidonia, Algeciras and Asilah sacked • raids on monasteries in irish midlands |
| 845 | • first Danegeld of France (7000 pd silver) • Hamburg sacked by Danes |
| 849 | • Périgneux sacked |
| 851 | • viking fleet winter at the Thames |
| • first raidson Welsh coast • Anskar returns to Birka • viking fleet winter at the Seine valley | |
| 853 | • attack on abbey of St. Martin (Tours) • viking winter at the Loire valley |
| 854 | • † Horik I "the Old" king of the Danes |
| 859 | • danish fleet attacks Nakur (N - Africa) • fleed of 62 ships, led by Hastein and Bjorn Ironsid, winter at Camargue • viking fleet acting in Somme valley |
| 860 | • Luna, Pisa and Fiesole sacked by the Camargue fleed • attack on Winchester by Somme Vikings • Rus attack Constantinople |
| 861 | • Camargue fleed sacked by spanish Muslim fleed |
| 862 | • Pamplona was sacked by the Camargue fleed • 20 surviving ship of the Camargue fleed sail back t the Loire |
| 865 | • attack on abbey of St. Benoit (Fleury) • Loire vikings burn down Poitiers • Great Army lands in East Anglia • † Anskar |
| 866 | • Great army attack York • Loire vikings sack Le Mans |
| 867 | • †Osbert king of Northumbria (killed) • Great Army leaves York and winters in Nottingham |
| 869 | • Great Army returns to East Anglia • † (20.11.) Edmund king of East Anglia |
| 870 | • Dublin vikings capture Dumbarton |
| 871 | • 04.01.871 - Battle of Reading [w] • † (april) king Aethelred • Great Army winters at London |
| 873 | • † Ivar "king of the Northmen" |
| 874 | • Great Army split up |
| 875 | • Cambridge vikings attack Wessex |
| 877 | • Cambridge vikings winter in Gloucester, take control of NE Mercia and begin to settle there |
| 878 | • vikings invade Wessex • Battle of Edington [w] • New Great Army assembles at Fulham (Thames) • New Great Army campaign in Meuse - Lower (Rhine) • vikings winter in Dyfed |
| 879 | • vikings, led by Guthrum, begin to settle East Anglia (• c. 879 † Riurik in Russia) |
| 881 | • raids on the Rhine velley (Aachen, Cologne, Lège, Utrecht ...) |
| 885 | • †Godfred (killed) |
| 886 | • vikings campaining and raiding in West Frankia (raids on Verdun, Toul, Troyes) until 888 |
| 890 | • Seine vikings defeated by Bretons at St. - Lô |
| 891 | • (september) Battle of Leuven [w] |
| 896 | • † Sihtric (son of Ivar - killed) |
| 899 | • † Alfred the great |
| 900 | (• c. 900 Battle of Hafrsfjord) |
| 902 | • vikings expelled from Dublin |
| 910 | • 05.08.910 - Battle of Tettenhall [w] |
| 911 | • raid on Seine valley (led by Rollo) |
| 915 | • Battle of Corbridge I [w] |
| 917 | • Ragnalds fleet arrives at waterford • Sihtric gains control of Dublin |
| 918 | • Ragnald sacks Dunblane (Scotland) and defeats the English & Scots on the Thyne (Battle of Corbridge II [w] ) |
| 920 | •† Ragnald |
| 921 | • vikings start settlement around Nantes |
| 924 | • † Edward the Elder |
| 926 | • |
| 927 | • † Sihtric II (Sigtryg) "the Caech" king of York |
| 930 | • foundation of the Althing in Iceland |
| 931 | • † Harald finehair king of Norway |
| 932 | • † Unni archbishop of Hamburg - Bremen (at Birka) |
| 937 | • Battle of Brunanburh [w] |
| 939 | • † Aethelstan • Olaf Guthfrithsson returns to Northumbria |
| 954 | • † Erik Bloodaxe (killed) |
| 958 | • † Gorm the Old (buried at Jelliing) |
| 961 | • raids on Wales (frequently until mid-11th-century) • † Hakon I the Good |
| 962 | • Iceland divide in quarters |
| 973 | • Harald I Bluetooth's invation of Notdalbingen |
| 974 | • Danes are defeated by Saxons (lost south Jutland incl. Heddeby) |
| 975 | • Foundation of Sigtuna |
| 980 | • viking raids on England again • bridge of Ravning is built (Vejle river - soth of Jelling) |
| 981 | • † Olaf Sihtricsson |
| 983 | • Danes recover south Jutland |
| 985 | (c. 985 • Greenland settlement starts) |
| 987 | • † Harald I Bluetooth |
| 990 | (c. 990 • Klastad ship is built) |
| 991 | • Battle of Maldon [w] |
| 994 | • viking fleed, led by Svein Forkbeard and Olaf Trygvason beats London and got 16 000 pound tribute |
| • raid on Elbe valley | |
| 997 | • annual raids on England until 1002 |
| 999 | • Battle of Glenn Máma [w] |
| 1000 | • Battle of Svold [w] • † Olaf Tryggvason • icelanding Althing accepts christianity (c. 1000 • Vinland discovered) |
| 1002 | • Aethelred ordered a massacre of Danes living in England |
| 1006 | • large fleet invades England |
| 1009 | • Thorkel and his fleet campains in England |
| 1012 | • Thorkel's army takes Canterbury |
| 1013 | • Sven Forkbeard's England Invasion • (December) Æthelred II flee to France |
| 1014 | • † (3.2.) Sven Forkbeard (at Gainsborough) • Æthelred returns to England and attacks the Danes together with his son Edmund Ironside • Canute the Great withdaw and sails back to Denmark • 23.4. Battle of Clontarf [w] |
| • Canute the Great lands in England with Thorkell the Tall und Erik of Hladhir and they witer at Poole Harbour | |
| 1016 | • (may) Danish fleed arrives in Greenwich • (april) † Æthelred II • battle of Ashingdon • (18.10.) Edmund is defeated by Canute • (autum) Edmund und Cnut agreed to share the kingdom • (30.11) † Edmund Ironside (buried at Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset) |
| 1066 | •20.09.1066 - Battle of Fulford [w] • 25.09.1066 - Battle of Stamford Bridge [w] • 14.10.1066 - Battle of Hastings [w] |
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