A TIMELINE OF THE VIKINGS
By Tim Lambert
793 The Vikings raid the monastery at Lindisfarne
795 The Vikings raid the monastery at Iona. They also raid Ireland.
9th Century The Vikings settle the Orkneys, Shetlands, Caithness and Sutherland. They found Cork and Dublin
836 The English defeat the Vikings at Higston Down
840 The English defeat the Vikings at Southampton
841 The Vikings raid Kent and East Anglia
842 The Vikings raid Southampton
844 The Vikings raid Spain and Portugal
845 The Vikings raid Hamburg
866 The Danes capture York
870 The Danes crush the East Anglians in battle. Marching south they capture Reading.
873 The Danes capture Western England. Only the South remains unconquered
874 The Vikings settle in Iceland
878 Alfred king of Wessex (Southern England) routs the Danes. Afterwards England is split between Wessex and the Danes with Watling Street as the border.
885 The Vikings raid Paris but are driven off
911 The French king gives the Viking leader Hrolf the Dukedom of Normandy on condition he helps to protect France from other Vikings
922 The Vikings found Limerick
980 The Danes begin raiding England again
985 The Vikings settle in Greenland
1001 The Vikings land in North America
1014 The Irish crush the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf
1016 A Dane called Canute becomes king of England
1066 An army of Norwegians is crushed by the English at Stamford Bridge
1069-70 A Danish army sails to England to assist English rebels against William the Conqueror but they eventually leave. It is the last Scandinavian intervention in England