Great Heathen Army lands
865 · Event
Vast Danish Viking host lands in East Anglia; over the next 14 years it conquers Northumbria, Mercia and East Anglia.
On these timelines: Alfred and the Vikings, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
More from Alfred and the Vikings
- Battle of Edington (878)
- Alfred in the marshes of Athelney (878)
- Twelfth Night attack at Chippenham (878)
- Alfred takes London (886)
- Treaty of Wedmore / Danelaw (878)
- Danelaw established (886)
- York falls to the Great Army (866)
- Battle of Ashdown (871)
Around 865
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Viking Age (793)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)