"The Raiders" Coastal Plunder, Pillage & Piracy |
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AEhelberht,
becomes King of Kent, later over-king |
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Raedwald
of East Anglia, later over-king, makes Edwin king of Northumbria |
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Battle
of Heavenfield; Oswald of Northumbria becomes over-king |
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Oswald
is killed at Oswestry by King Penda of Mercia |
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Penda
is defeated and killed at the Winwaed by Oswy of Northumbia, who become
over-king |
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Synod
of Hertford: battle of the Trent, marking the beginnings of the rise
of Mercia |
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Expansion
of Wessex under Caedwalla to include Kent, Surrey and Sussex |
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AEthelbald
becomes king of Mercia |
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Bede
completes his Ecclesiastical History |
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Death
of AEthelbald; Offa becomes king of Merica |
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Legatine
Council held under Offa |
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Danish
raids on Lindisfarne, Jarrow, and Iona |
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Death
of Offa |
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Egbert
of Wessex defeats Merica and annexes Kent, Essex, Surrey, and Sussex
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Big
Danish raid on Kent |
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The
Danish 'Great Army' lands |
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Northumbria
falls to the Danes |
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East Anglia falls to the Danes; murder of St. Edmund. |
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The
Danes attack Wessex; Alfred becomes king |
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Merica
falls to the Danes |
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The
Danes drive Alfred into the Somerset marshes |
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Alfred
defeats the Danes at Edington, becomes king of Wessex |
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Death
of Alfred; Edward 'the Elder' becomes king of Wessex |
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Edward
and AEthelflaed reconquer most of Danelaw |
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Norse
kingdom of York is founded by Raegnald |
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Death of Edward; Athelstan becomes king |
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Death of Athelstan; Edmund becomes king |
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Death of Edmund |
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Edgar beoomes king |
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Edgar is crowned and consecrated, and receives the submission of British princes |
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Death of Edgar; Edward 'the Martyr' becomes king |
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Murder of Edward; AEthelred 'the Unreaday' becomes king |
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Treaty beween England and Normandy |
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AEthelred orders the massacre of all Danes in England |
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Danish invasion led by King Swein |
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Swein returns with a new army; the Danelaw accepts him as King |
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Swein dies; the Danish army in England elect Cnut as their king |
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AEthelred dies; Edmund 'Ironside' becomes king |
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Cunt defeats Edmund at Ashingdon: Edmund dies and Cunt becomes King of all England |
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Cnut divides England into four earldoms |
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Death of Cnut |
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Harold becomes king |
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Death of Harold; Harthacnut becomes king |
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Death of Harthacnut; Edward 'the Confessor' becomes king |
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Conflict between King Edward and Godwin earl of Wessex |
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Death of Godwin; his son Harold becomes earl of Wessex |
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Earl Harold visits Duke William in Normandy |
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Death of King Edward: Earl Harold becomes king |
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King Harold of England defeats and kills King Harald Hardrada of Norway at Stamford Bridge |
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Duke William of Norway defeats and kills King Harold of England at Hastings |
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Chronology is based on dates from ‘The Oxford History of Britain’, Volume I |
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Among the many raiders was the ‘Men of the North’, plundering the other side of the channel was ‘Rollo, the Viking’, a rough Northman from Norway. Rollo first took to landing in Britain but was defeated in a battle with Alfred, took his fleet to the sea to France. Where he took a number of French cities and outside the gates of Rouen the Norseman built a huge camp. In 911 Rollo forced Charles the Simple, to sign the Treaty of Saint Clair-sur-Epte, in it Charles gave Rouen and the area of modern Haute-Normandie to Rollo, who vowed to guard the estates of the Seine from further Viking attacks. The Vikings colonised Normandy, the Viking influence and customs remained strong building strongholds and training Vikings to fight on horseback. Rollo’s successors were called ‘Dukes of Normandy’, in 1066 a Duke of Normandy conquered the Kingdom of England. |