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787 the first three Viking ships landed in Wessex and the Norsemen started to plunder towns and coastal monasteries
793 Vikings sack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria. First major Viking raid in England. The "start" of the Viking age.
795 Earliest recorded Viking raid on Ireland. Places attacked include Iona, Inisbofin and Inismurray.
802 Vikings sack Iona.
832 Clondalkin, Ireland is sacked by Vikings.
834 First Viking raid of Dorestad.
835 Viking raid of Dorestad.
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844 Dorestad is raided by Vikings.
845 Vikings also sack Hamburg and Melun.
845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collect a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
850 First recorded Viking attack on the Welsh coast.
851 Vikings plunder London
857 Viking raid of Dorestad.
866 A "great Viking army" captures York.
873 Viking raid of Dorestad.
981 981 A.D. the great Viking explorer Eric the Red left Norway to survey an island west of Iceland. He found land and he named it Greenland. Hundreds of land-starved Vikings boarded longships and headed west for this so-called "greenland."
985 Greenland colonized by Icelandic Viking Erik the Red (the date is according to legend but has been established as at least approximately correct - see History of Greenland)
1002 With a new group of colonists, an epidemic hits the Viking colony in Greenland.
1010 Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settlement in North America (approximate date).
1014 Battle of Clontarf; Gaelic Irish forces under Brian Boru defeat several allied Viking forces in Ireland, ending their power there but killing Brian in the process
1952 Remains of a Viking ship found near Boston, Massachusetts.
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