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Viking Invasions

793 CE – 1066 CE · 273 years

Nearly three centuries of Norse raids, conquests, and settlements that reshaped northern Europe — from the sack of Lindisfarne to the Norman conquest of England.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Norse Vikings
  • Anglo-Saxons
  • Franks
  • various kingdoms

Key moments

Defining events in the Viking Invasions.

  1. 793 Lindisfarne
  2. 885–886 Siege of Paris
  3. 1066 Stamford Bridge
  4. 1066 Hastings

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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800 CE – 1100 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 793 CE and 1066 CE.

800 CE Venice 829 CE Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela 839 CE Amalfi 840 CE Carolingian Civil Wars 859 CE Novgorod

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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