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Period: 700 to 1100
Viking timespan
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787
first viking attack on England
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795
Vikings invade ireland
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799
Vikings raids begin in France
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867
Viking raiders settle in Northern Englands
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870
Vikings first settlement in Ireland
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878
Alfred the Great King of wessex makes treaty with vikings
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911
The King of France makes a treaty with invading vikings, they are given a tract which is now known as Normandy
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930
The first althing (Viking Parliament) is held in iceland
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985
985 Erik the red banished from iceland for 3 years of murder, he then sails west and discover greenland
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1001
Leif Ericson (son o Erik the red) sails east from Greenland to reach labrador in North America, a small settlement was but up but abandoned in 1015