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Headword Date Article Type
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the first Viking raids on England 789 T
Sack of Lindisfarne; Viking invasions begin 793 - 1000 T
The Vikings sack the island abbey of Lindisfarne, off the northeastern coast of England 793 T
King Egbert of Wessex conquers Cornwall 815 T
Danes raid Kent 835 T
Vikings invade Devon 836 T Note
The Danes enter Thames estuary and march on Canterbury 851 T
'Great Army' of the Danes lands in Britain 865 T
A great Danish Viking army invades East Anglia 865 T Note
Northumbria falls to the Vikings 866 - 867 T Note
Wessex attacked by the Danes 871 T
The Danes conquer Mercia 874 T
The Danes begin raids on Sussex 895 T
Bohemia becomes independent from Moravia 895 T Note
Arab merchants settle on the East African coast 900 T Note
Thessalonica sacked by Saracens 904 T
Beginnings of the English reconquest of the Danelaw 914 - 919 T Note
King Edmund I of England regains control of the Danelaw 942 T
Cumberland and Westmoreland annexed by Scots 945 T
Persian Buwayhids capture Baghdad 945 T Note

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