How the Danelaw Was Established in England

Vikings vs Anglo-Saxons Timeline Sheet

How the Danelaw was established in England

793 806 The first Viking invasion in England. They ransack the In the third Viking attack on Iona (an island in Lindisfarne monastery, Scotland) 68 monks are killed. The Vikings massacre the monks and continue to raid monasteries and towns along burn down the priory. theth coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland.

852 The Vikings stay in Englandd for a 865 long period of time for the first time. The Danish ‘Grand Army’ lands on They camp on the Isle of Thanet in the east coast of England, led by Kent over the winter instead of King Ivan the ‘Boneless’ and King returning to Scandinavia. Halfdan. A new wave of attacks on East Anglia, Mercia and Northumberland begin.

869 The Vikings attack East Anglia. 867 King Edmund raises an army to The VikingsViking move south from York and fight them but the army is attack NotNottingham. They take the city. defeated and King Edmund is Late that year, two Northumbrians were killed and decapitated. battling for the crown. The Vikings took advantage of this and took control of York. This city became Jorvik, the Viking capital in England. 871 The Vikings attack Wessex. King EthelredEt and his brother Alfred fight a series of battles against the 886 Vikings. Ethelred dies and passes the crown to Alfred. After a The Treaty of Wedmore is signed, givingin g humiliating defeat, King Alfred the northeast to the Vikings and leavingvi ng decides to pay the Vikings the rest of England to the Anglo-Saxons. ‘Danegeld’ in order to keep them The northeast becomes known as the out of Wessex. The Vikings agree ‘Danelaw’. After the Treaty of Wedmore,more, andan there is a period of peace Arthur is recognised as ‘King of all betweenbe Wessex and the Vikings. England’. He now controls Wessex andnd English Mercia, uniting these people as ‘Anglecynn’ or ‘English people’.