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Anglo-Saxons - The Vikings
Year King
559-560 AD     Glappa
560-568 AD     Adda (Son of Ida)
568-572 AD     AEthelric
572-579 AD     Theodoric (Son of Ida)
579-585 AD     Frithuwald
585-592 AD     Hussa
588-593 AD    AEthelric (AElle)            D:593
592-616 AD     AEthelfrith
616-632 AD     Edwin (St.Edwin)           D:632-3
632-633AD     Eanfrith (Eanfrith)
633-641 AD     Oswald (St. Oswald)
641-670 AD     Oswiu                            D:651
644-651 AD     Oswine (St Oswine) K.of Deira
651-654 AD ?     OEthelwald
670-685 AD     Ecgfrith
67?-679 AD     AElfwine                        D:679
685-704 AD     Aldfrith                          D:704
704-705 AD    Eadwulf
705-716 AD     Osred I                          D:716
716-718 AD     Cenred
718-729 AD     Osric                              D:729
729-737 AD     Ceolwulf                        D:760-4
737-758 AD     Eadberht                       D:768
758-759 AD     Oswulf                           D:759
759-765 AD    AEelwald Moll
765-774 AD     Alhred
774--779 AD     AEthelred I
779-788 AD     AElfwald I
788-790 AD     Osred II                         D:792
*    790-796 AD     AEthelred I
796-810 AD    Eardwulf
808 AD     AElfwald II
808-810 AD     Eardwulf
810-840 AD     Eanred
840-844 AD     AEthelred II
844 AD    Raedwulf
844-848 AD     AEthelred II
848-866 AD    Osberht
866-867 AD     Roger of Wendover
Viking Era
867-873 AD     Ecgberht I
873-876 AD     Ricsige                          D:876
876     Halfdene - Ecgberht II
870-871 AD     Bagsecg                        D:871
854-860's AD     Horik II (Erik Barn)         D:871
985/995-1035     Cnut the Great               D:1035
910-990 AD     Egill Skallagrisson         D: 990
880-950 AD     Eric the Victorious         D:1014
    Godfrid Duke of Frisia    D: 885
c.820- c.856 AD     Godfrid Haraldsson        D: 886
871-899 AD    Guthrum                        D:980
    Halfdan                          D:877
866-900 AD     Guthred                         D:895
910-940 AD     Harald Bluetooth           D:985-6
960-1014 AD     Sweyn Forkbeard          D:186-7
870-930 AD     Harald Fairhair
1040's-1047 AD     Harald Hardrada
    Harald Fairhair
826 AD     Harald Klak
    Ivor the Boneless
1015-1030 AD     Olav Haraldsson (St Olaf)
955-1000 AD     Olaf Tryggvason
    Ragnar Lodbrok
    Rollo of Normandy
    Rorik of Dorestad
    Sweyn Forkbeaqrd
878 AD     Ubbe Ragnarsson
1066 AD     William the Conqueror
Please Note: Research has highlighted conflicting dates or overlapping dates most likely due to joint succession - therefore should be treated as approximations. Key: D:= Death
AD.
436 -  This is the time of the legendary Sigurd the dragon slayer.
           Son of hero Sigmund and leading figure in the Volsung
           saga. Also known as Siegfried.
480   - King Hadding of Denmark. Raised by giants he fought
            many a great battle. His tale is filled withfantastic creatures
            and magic.
520   - Beowulf. Perhaps the most well known of the Viking
            heroes. Known mostly for killing the wicked Grendel.
550   - Hrolf Kraki. Hrolf is another legendary King of Denmark.
           His tale is filled with berserkers, witches and all manner of
           creatures.
789   - The first Viking attack on England.
793   - Vikings sack the monastery at Lindisfarne in Northumbria.
794   - Vikings attack sites in northern Britain, in what we now call
            Scotland.
795   - Irish annals record a Viking raid on Rathlin Island, off
            Ireland's north-east coast.
799   - Aquitaine is raided by Vikings.
800   - Coastal defenses are organized by Charlemagne.
         - The Oseberg Viking longships are buried about this time.
810   - Frisia is ravaged by the Danish king Godfred.
815   - Floki of Rogaland set out from the Faergoe Isles and
           discovered Iceland.
822-823 - Archbishop Ebo of Rheims undertakes a mission to
            Denmark.
832   - Vikings raid Armagh in Ireland three times in one month.
835   - The Oseberg ship burial in Norway.
837   - 60 Viking longships entered the mouth of the Boyne and
            another 60 sailed up to Liffey. The Vikings devestated
            Ireland by ravaging her churches, sanctuaries, and her
            shrines.
839   - The Norse leader Turgeis led an impressive army into the
            north of Ireland, conquering Ulster, and founding the
            harbor-stronghold of Dublin.
840   - Viking settlers found the city of Dublin in Ireland.
841   - Vikings under the leadership of Turgeis founds Dublin,
            Ireland
841 -   Vikings burns Lillebonne, Caudebec and Roue and
            destroys the abbeys of Jumieges and St Wandrille.
843   - Norwegians plunder the town of Nantes in western
            France. They then sailed up the Loire as far as Tours and
            attacked the whole of France.
844   - A group of Danes sailed up the Guadalquivir and attacked
            Seville.
         - Viking raid on Seville is repulsed.
845  - The Vikings defile the shrine of Clonmacnoise. Ota, the
            wife of the Norse leader Turgeis, performed pagan rites on
            the high altar. Turgeis later took the settlement of Armagh
            and proclaimed himself king. The Irish later captured him
            and drowned him in Loch Owel.
845   - Vikings threaten Paris and are paid a tribute of bullion
            worth 7,000 pounds of silver not to attack.
851   - Danish Vikings land in Ireland and join forces with the Irish
            to become the rulers of Ireland.
853   - Olaf and Ivar, two sons of a minor Norwegian ruler,
            established a Norse kingdom in Dublin.
            This kingdom lasted for more than two centuries.
859   - The Danish chieftain Hastein joined forces with another
            Viking leader and led a fleet of 60 dragon ships through
            the straits of Gibraltar and raided Algeciras and the
            coasts of Morocco.
860   - Hastein led his fleet to Italy and sacked Luna, a town that
            no longer exists.
         - Rus Vikings attack Constantinople (Istanbul).
866   - York is captured by a Viking army.
870   - Iceland is colonised by Vikings.
871   - King Ethelred, the West Saxon king, (wessex)  and his
            brother Alfred, defeat the Viking army at the Battle of
            Ashdown (in Berkshire). Danish advance is halted in
            England.
872   - Harald I gains control of Norway.
874   - First settlement of Iceland.
876   - Vikings from Denmark, Norway and Sweden settle
            permanently in England.
879   - Rurik establishes Kiev as the centre of the Kievan Rus'
            demains.
885   - Birth of Erik Blood-Axe.
886   - Alfred divides Englan with the Danes under Danelaw pact.
900   - The Vikings raid along the Mediterranean coast.
907   - Swedish Viking Oleg the Wise led an army of eighty
            thousand men and two thousand ships to Constantinople.
            Panic- stricken, the Byzantines paid a large tribute and
            agreed to a commercial treaty.
911   - King Alfred formally agrees a boundary between his
            kingdom and land ruled by the Viking King Guthrum (an
            area later called "the Danelaw").
         - The Viking chief Rollo is granted land by the Franks and
            founds Normandy in France.
919   - Birth of Hacon the Good.
930   - Erik Blood-Axe becomes King of Norway on Harold  
           Fairhair's abdication.
931   - Death of Rolf the Ganger, founder of Normandy.
933   - Death of Harald Fairhair.
934   - Hacon The Good becomes King of Norway.
939   - Erik Blood-Axe becomes King of Northumberland.
940   - Gorm the Old King of Denmark.
941   - Rus Vikings attack Constantinople (Istanbul).
950   - Death of Erik Blood-Axe at Steinmore in England.Vikings from Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Hebrides raid Wales,
           particularly the coastal monasteries.
954   - Eric Bloodaxe, the last Viking King of Jorvik, is thrown out of York.
958   - Harald Bluetooth becomes King Of Denmark.
961   - Death of Hacon the Good after the battle on the island of Stord.
968   - Birth of Olav Trygvason.
980   - Vikings Viking leader Erik the Red discovers Greenland.
981   - The Vikings settle in Greenland
986   - Viking ships sail in Newfoundland waters.
991   - Aethelred II pays the first Danegeld ransom to stop Danish attacks on England.
994   - 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.
995   - Olav I conquers Norway and proclaims it a Christian Kingdom.
1000 - The Vikings reach Newfoundland, but they did not go beyond the coastal area and their settlement was short- lived.
         - Christianity reaches Greenland and Iceland.
         - Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, explores the coast of North America.
         - Olav I dies; Norway is ruled by the Danes.
1002  - Brian Boru defeats the Norse and becomes King of Ireland.
2010  - Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America.
1013  - King Sven of Denmark (with his son Cnut) sail up the rivers Humber and Trent to be accepted as king in the Danelaw.
         - The Saxon king Ethelred the Unready flees to Normandy.
1014  - Cnut becomes the leader of the Danes on his father's death and king of England after the death of Ethelred and his son
           Edmund Ironside.
1015  - Vikings abandon the Vinland settlement on the coast of North America.
1016  -  Cnut the Great, son of Svein Forkbeard, (Danes), conquers England and marries Aethelred's widow, Queen Emma.
         -  Olav II regains Norway from the Danes.
1018 - The coronation of Canute the Great, as King of England.
1026 - KingsAnund Jakob (Sweden) and Olaf Haraldsson (Norway) attacks Denmark, but fails.
1028 - Knut (Canute), king of England and Denmark, conquers Norway and Olaf flees.
1030 - Olaf Haraldsson returns to regain Norway, but is killed at Stiklestad.
1031 - Olaf Haraldsson becomes officially proclaimed a Saint, by Bishop Grimkel  (August 3rd).
1035 - Canute the Great dies, Magnus, son of St Olaf, expels the Danes from Norway and regains the kingdom.
1042 - Ethelred's other son, Edward the Confessor, is invited to return from  Normandy as king with the  support of the Danes.
1045 - Magnus grants Harald Hardraada half of Norway, as a co-king.
1047 - Magnus, king of Norway & Denmark, dies; Hardraada sovereign king of Norway; Claims Denmark as well.
1047 - Svend Estridsson gains control of the Danish throne, but Hardraada won't give up his claim.
1049 - Hardraada founds Oslo, Norway.
1050 - Hardraade raids Haithabu.
1062 - Hardraada defeats Svend Estridsson at the Battle of Nissen, but fails to gaincontrol of Denmark.
1064 - Hardraada gives up Denmark and recognizes Svend Estridsson as legal heirto the throne.
1066 - 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.
1070 - Danish king Sven Estridsson arrives in Humber to claim England. King Williams defenses were  too strong and he was
          forced to withdraw in the summer.
1072 - Vikings conquers Palermo.
1085 - Danish Vikings makes a final attempt to conquer England but fails.
Reference Early Viking Kings
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