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Vikings sack the monastery at Lindisfarne in Northumbria. 793
Vikings attack sites in northern Britain, in what we now call Scotland. 794
Irish annals record a Viking raid on Rathlin Island, off Ireland’s north-east coast. 795
York is captured by a Viking army. 866
Iceland is colonised by Vikings. 870
King Ethelred, the West Saxon king, and his brother Alfred, defeat the Viking army at the Battle of Ashdown (in Berkshire). 871
Vikings from Denmark, Norway and Sweden settle permanently in England. 876
King Alfred formally agrees a boundary between his kingdom and land ruled by the Viking King Guthrum (an area later called “the Danelaw”). 886
Vikings from Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Hebrides raid Wales, particularly the coastal monasteries. 950
Eric Bloodaxe, the last Viking King of Jorvik, is thrown out of York. 954
Vikings settle in Greenland. 980
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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. 994
The Vikings reach Newfoundland, but they did not go beyond the coastal area and their settlement was short-lived. 1000
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. 1013
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. 1014
Ethelred’s other son, Edward the Confessor, is invited to return from Normandy as king. 1042
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. 1066