Vikings overwinter on Thanet
850* · Event
For the first time a Danish army spends the winter in England, on the Isle of Thanet: raiding is becoming settlement.
On these timelines: Alfred and the Vikings, The Viking Age, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
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