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Migration, Empires and the People
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Spike King
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10 Dec 2017
Events
Viking Age in England begins Attack on Lindisfarne monastery
Aelle defeats Viking raiding force Ragnar Lodbrok thrown in pit of venemous snakes
Great Heathen army lands Lead by Ivar the Boneless to avenge Lodbrok
Vikings conquer Mercia despite Danegeld
Alfred the Great summons counterattack Battle of Edington successful after Chippenham defeat
Reign of Athelstan 924-939 Unification of heptarchy
Athelstan defeats Danes in England at Battle of Brunanburh
Eric Bloodaxe death 25 years without raids
Return of invaders to raid English ports
Aethelred paying Danegeld
Aethelred marries Emma of Normandy
St Brice's Day Massacre
Sweyn driven Aethelred and sons from England
Sweyn King for a few weeks Dies February 3rd
Cnut declares himself King after a few years of fighting
Cnut conquers country in 1013-16
Cnut's Danish warriors sent back to Denmark
Cnut visits Rome to negotiate payments for travellers to Rome
Cnut succeeds relative to be King of Norway
Cnut succeeds relatives to become King of Denmark
Emma of Normandy crowned queen again
Emma of Normandy Crowned Queen
Viking warriors from Norway and Denmark settled lands conquered Between 865-874 Territory known as Danelaw
1040-42 Harthacnut crowned King of England
Edward crowned King 1042-66
Cnut dies
Charlemagne crowned King of France
Rollo King of the Northmen granted Normandy Becomes a Christian and takes name Robert Becomes first Duke of Normandy
Battle of Hastings WIlliam Duke of Normandy crowned King of England
William's daughter Matilda named successor to the crown
Matilda challenged for crown by Stephen Country plunged into civil war 'The Anarchy' 1135-54
Henry II became first Angevin King of England and ruler of Normandy, Anjou and Aquitaine
Henry reorganises English justice system
Force of Anglo-Norman lords invade Ireland
Henry Becket murdered by Henry's knights
English Pope Adrian IV gives Henry authority to invade Ireland
Henry signs Treaty of Windsor with High King of Ireland who agreed to give homage
Henry's son named Lord of Ireland
Henry II faces Great Revolt of his eldest sons
English pushed out of Normandy
John signs Magna Carta
John dies after Prince Louis' forces invade
French King senses Edward II weaknesses and orders him to pay homage
Edward II crowned
Phillip IV confiscates Aquitaine
Edward III sails to Normandy with an army of 150,000
French demolished at Battle of Crecy
Battle of Poitiers English victory
Henry V begins plans to invade France
Beginning of the Hundred Years War
Henry's forces march to Calais Intercepted at Agincourt
Battle of Agincourt English victory
Henry V dies
English and French allies defeated at Siege of Orleans under Joan of Arc
English removed from the last French stronghold
Edward captures Calais
Calais lost to French
