The Viking age (timeline) By Charlie-T Period: 700 to 1100 Viking timespan 787 first viking attack on England 795 Vikings invade ireland 799 Vikings raids begin in France 867 Viking raiders settle in Northern Englands 870 Vikings first settlement in Ireland 878 Alfred the Great King of wessex makes treaty with vikings 911 The King of France makes a treaty with invading vikings, they are given a tract which is now known as Normandy 930 The first althing (Viking Parliament) is held in iceland 985 985 Erik the red banished from iceland for 3 years of murder, he then sails west and discover greenland 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