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The Viking Age began in the year 789 with the attack on the English monastery of Lindisfarne, which is the earliest known Viking attack. -
In 799, the Vikings begin to venture far from this area, first reaching the French coast in Brittany. The Loire estuary and surrounding islands fell victim to Viking raids. -
In 820, already a fleet of 13 ships attacks by the Seine. In 834 we have news of his first attacks on the Netherlands -
The first Viking expedition to the Mediterranean dates back to 844, when 4,000 Vikings in 54 ships sailed up the Guadalquivir River, sowing terror in the area and burning Isbiliya before being defeated by Abd al-Rahmán II in the Battle of Tablada, where more than 1000 Vikings (called majus) and 400 prisoners were executed. The rest of the expedition fled losing 30 ships. -
The beginning of the tenth century in Western Europe marks the end of his great successes. In 911, the last attack on the mouth of the Seine is repulsed, and in 931 they are driven from their bases on the Loire. The following decade sees his last attacks on Britain -
The beginning of the eleventh century would see a final reappearance when in 1014 Viking rule of England was reinstated under King Canute II of Denmark. This revival is considered definitively over when King Harald III the Merciless dies at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066, during dynastic conflicts in England.