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Events

By Place

Europe

Deaths

Events

By Place

Europe

★ Nine battles are fought between the Danes and Wessex. Of two of them the place and date are not recorded, the others were:

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★ Englefield (31 December 870)

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★ Reading (4 January)

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★ Ashdown (8 January)

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★ Basing (22 January)

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★ Merton (22 March)

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★ Wilton (May)

★ Alfred the Great succeeds as king of Wessex after Ethelred's death.

★ Reading, England occupied by the Norse.

★ After the battle at Wilton, peace is made, with the Danes and Alfred each governing part of England.

★ Rhodri ''Mawr'' ('the Great') of Gwynedd inherits Seisyllwig, thus uniting most of Wales under his rule

★ Louis II captures Bari, the headquarters of the Saracens.

★ Alfred makes Winchester to his capital.

★ An incomplete marriage contract, dated to October 6 of this year, is the earliest dated document in the Cairo Geniza.

★ Foundation of Tønsberg, the oldest surviving town in the Nordic countries.

★ Svatopluk I becomes king of Great Moravia

Deaths

★ January 8 — King Bagsecg, Viking leader (killed at the Battle of Ashdown

★ April 23 — King Ethelred of Wessex (killed in battle)