Viking

The vikings

By sfenneyw
  • Apr 17, 1066

    The Battle of Hastings

    Harold Godwinson becomes the last Anglo-Saxon king after the death of King Edward. King Harald of Norway invades England and captures York, but is then defeated and killed in the battle of Stamford Bridge. King Harold is defeated by Duke William at the battle of Hastings.

  • The Beginning

    The Vikings race started in 793.

  • The First Raid

    Vikings first raid in England. The monastery of St. Cuthbert at Lindisfarne was sacked.

  • The Raid Of Scotland

    Vikings attack sites in northern Britain, in what we now call Scotland.

  • Capturing of York

    York is captured by a Viking army

  • Colony Of Iceland

    Iceland is colonised by Vikings

  • The Great Loss

    King Ethelred, the West Saxon king, and his brother Alfred, defeat the Viking army at the Battle of Ashdown (in Berkshire).

  • The Boundry

    King Alfred formally agrees a boundary between his kingdom and land ruled by the Viking King Guthrum (an area later called “the Danelaw”).

  • Greenland

    Vikings settle in Greenland.

  • Unsatifactory siege

    Olaf of Norway and Sven ‘Forkbeard’, son of the Danish king, lead an invading Danish army in an unsuccessful siege of London, and subsequently ravage the south-east.