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Begins with the attack on Lindisfarne monastery in 793. A Scandinavian expedition sacked the monastery as well as nearby villages on the coast of northern England.
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In 799 they attacked Brittany, in 834 the Low Countries and in 844 the Mediterranean coast. The first stay of the Vikings in Spain was in 844.
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In the year 850, the Danes attacked England during the summer and spent the winter in camps. In the year 866 they conquered the capital of Northumbria, Eoferwic (modern York).
The Norwegians controlled Ireland from 853 thanks to alliances with local kings and founded Dublin.
The Swedes in 861 conquered Novgorod and in 863 kiev -
Viking attacks in France makes the Viking leader Rollo, who had attacked Paris in 855, convert to Christianity and become Duke of Normandy in the service of the French king.
The Vikings are dispossessed of their bases on the Loire in the year 931, the successive attacks on French territory did not have the force or success of before. -
Erik the Red explores and colonizes Greenland since 982.
Prince Vladimir I of Kyiv is baptized in the year 988. The Icelandic Assembly, for this part, agrees on the official conversion in the year 1000.
Cnut the Great is also proclaimed King of England in 1016, after invading England.
The Vikings ceased to exist around the year 1100. Scandinavia had adopted the Christian culture