Viking thing

By jhollway
  • 787

    First attack

    Their first attack happened in English soil
  • 793

    Vikings raid St Cuthbert's monastery

  • 795

    Vikings raid Ireland

  • 799

    Vikings raid France

  • 867

    Viking raiders settle in Northern England

  • 870

    First viking settlement in Ireland

  • 878

    The first Danelaw

    Alfred the Great makes a treaty with the vikings, they are given some land and trade and settle in.
  • 911

    French treaty

    Vikings are given some land by the French king at the time
  • 985

    Discovery of Greenland

    Erik the red is banished due to killing his kind, he is sent away and Erik discoves Greenland.
  • 991

    First Danegeld payment

  • 1016

    Cnut becomes king of England

  • 1066

    The end of the Vikings

    They stop rading because of the changing times.