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787
First attack
Their first attack happened in English soil -
793
Vikings raid St Cuthbert's monastery
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795
Vikings raid Ireland
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799
Vikings raid France
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867
Viking raiders settle in Northern England
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870
First viking settlement in Ireland
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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
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1016
Cnut becomes king of England
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1066
The end of the Vikings
They stop rading because of the changing times.