Alfred builds the burhs
880* · Event
Alfred's answer to the next invasion is a network of some thirty fortified towns, none more than a day's march apart, garrisoned by rota and paid for by a systematic land-tax — with a standing field army and new ships to match. When the Vikings return in force in the 890s, the system simply absorbs them: the raiders' England is closed.
On these timelines: Alfred and the Vikings, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
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- Great Heathen Army lands (865)
- 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)
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- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Viking Age (793)
- Coronation of Charlemagne (800)
- Diamond Sutra printed (868)