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Viking kings control Britain

  • Vikings attack the monastery of Lindisfarne
    Jan 1, 793

    Vikings attack the monastery of Lindisfarne

    One surviving contemporary record of the attack, an Anglo-Saxon scholar at the court. He heard about the attack on the monastery in his native Northumbria and wrote: 'Never before has such an atrocity been seen.'
  • Period: Dec 1, 793 to Dec 31, 1066

    History about vikings in England

  • Vikings attack the monastery of Iona
    Jan 1, 795

    Vikings attack the monastery of Iona

    Iona was attacked in 795 AD monks the used to live there were killed and of the rest fled to Ireland. They took with them the 'Book of Kells', which is one of the greatest treasures of Celtic art.
  • Athelstan, defeats a viking fleet
    Jan 1, 851

    Athelstan, defeats a viking fleet

    Athelstan, son of the king of Wessex, defeats a Viking fleet in battle
  • Viking army kills rival kings of Northumbria, capturing York
    Jan 1, 867

    Viking army kills rival kings of Northumbria, capturing York

    Osberht and Ælle, two rivals for the Northumbrian throne, were engaged in battle outside York when a Viking force arrived.
  • Edmund, is martyred by the Vikings
    Jan 1, 869

    Edmund, is martyred by the Vikings

    The Viking army that had captured York used the area as a stable base for deeper incursions into England
  • Vikings conquer the kingdom of Mercia
    Jan 1, 874

    Vikings conquer the kingdom of Mercia

  • Alfred, agrees a treaty with Vikings to divide England
    Jan 1, 886

    Alfred, agrees a treaty with Vikings to divide England

    the king Alfred he called up his troops and defeated the Viking king Guthrum. He later brought Guthrum and created a settlement that divided England
  • Alfred the Great of Wessex dies
    Jan 1, 899

    Alfred the Great of Wessex dies

    Alfred the Great of Wessex dies and is succeeded by his son Edward the Elder. His kingdom was the only English realm that had preserved its independence from the Vikings. Under his son, Edward the Elder, the armies of Wessex began the conquest of the rest of England from the Vikings.
  • Byrhtnoth, the chief magistrate of Essex, dies fighting the Vikings.
    Jan 1, 991

    Byrhtnoth, the chief magistrate of Essex, dies fighting the Vikings.

  • Edward the Confessor dies and is succeed by Harold Godwinson
    Jan 6, 1066

    Edward the Confessor dies and is succeed by Harold Godwinson

    Harold, earl of Wessex, was crowned king of England on 6 January 1066, when he die, a king from England reigned
  • 3 claimants to the throne
    Jan 6, 1066

    3 claimants to the throne

    -Vikings from North
    -Anglo saxons from England
    -Normands from Normandy Finally, the Normands reigned in Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLYzSMB5RA