Alfred and the Vikings
Explore Alfred and the Vikings on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Reign of Alfred the Great (871)
- Battle of Edington (878)
- Great Heathen Army lands (865)
- Alfred in the marshes of Athelney (878)
- Twelfth Night attack at Chippenham (878)
- Treaty of Wedmore / Danelaw (878)
- Alfred takes London (886)
- Danelaw established (886)
- York falls to the Great Army (866)
- Battle of Ashdown (871)
- Alfred builds the burhs (880)
- The martyrdom of King Edmund (869)
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle begun (890)
- Viking raid on Lindisfarne (793)
- Viking Age (793)
- Reign of Edward the Elder (899)
- Reign of Æthelred I (865)