History

  • 787

    First attack

    It was the first
    Viking’s attack
    on England
  • Period: 787 to 1066

    Vicking’s

  • 793

    793

    Viking’s attack villages,
    towns and monasteries,
    plundering their wealth and
    capturing prisoners
  • 795

    795

    Viking raids begin in
    Ireland and Scotland.
  • 799

    799

    Viking raids begin in France.
  • 840

    840

    Dublin, Ireland, is founded by the Vikings
  • 844

    844

    Viking raiders reach Spain but are defeated
    at the town of Cordoba.
  • 860

    860

    Vikings fromNorway reach Iceland.
    Swedish Vikings reach Constantinople (Istanbul)
    in modern Turkey
  • 865

    865

    The Viking ‘Great Army’ lands in England.
  • 870

    870

    Vikings fromSweden begintovisitRussia.