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787
787
The first attacks on northern English monasteries -
799
799
Viking raids begin in France -
878
878
Alfred the Great (king of Wessex) makes a treaty with the vikings establishing the Danelaw -
911
911
The king of France gives a band of Vikings a part of Northern France with a promise to stop raids and establishing the Duchy of Normandy -
930
930
the first Viking parliament is held in Iceland -
985
985
A viking, Erick the Red in banished from Iceland for murder and discovers Greenland -
991
991
Vikings invading England are paid in a sort of tax in return of a promise to stop the raids -
1001
1001
Lief Erickson leaves Greenland and discovers Labrador in North America, creating a settlement, but it is abandoned in 1015 -
1015
1015
Danish chief Cnut Conquers England Norway and Denmark, creating a very short lived empire, The North Sea Empire -
1066
1066
English King, King Edward dies without an heir, creating a power vacuum, and Norwegian King Harold Hadrada Tries to conquer England based on a lose claim, but is killed, ending the viking era in England and creating a slow decline in viking raids in Europe