9th century in England

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Events from the 9th century in England.

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• 801
  • Northumbrian invasion of Mercia fails.^[1]
• 802
  • Egbert becomes King of Wessex.^[1]
• 803
  • Council of Clofeshoh abolishes the Archbishopric of Lichfield.^[1]
• 815
  • Egbert of Wessex conquers Cornwall.^[2]
• 816
  • Saxons invade the mountains of Eryri and the kingdom of Rhufoniog.^[2]
• 818
  • King Cenwulf of Mercia devastates Dyfed.^[2]
• 821
  • Wulfred, Archbishop of Canterbury, submits to Cenwulf of Mercia in a dispute over Church lands.^[1]
• 822
  • Mercian army destroys the fortress of Degannwy and takes control of Powys.^[2]
• 823
  • A fight of Welsh/Britons [against] Devon-men at Galford^[3]
• 825
  • Battle of Ellendun: King Egbert of Wessex defeats the Mercians, and subdues Essex, Sussex, and Kent, ending the Mercian Supremacy.^[1]
• 829
  • Egbert of Wessex temporarily conquers Mercia.^[1]
• 830
  • Nennius completes his Historia Brittonum.^[1]
• 835
  • Vikings raid Sheppey.^[1]
• 838
  • Battle of Hingston Down: Egbert of Wessex defeats combined Danish and Cornish armies.^[1]
• 842
  • Vikings raid London, Rochester, and Southampton.^[1]
• 851
  • Kentish ships defeat the Danes off Sandwich in the first recorded naval battle in English history.^[1]
  • Battle of Oakley: King Ethelwulf of Wessex defeats the Danes.^[1]
  • Danes over-winter in England for the first time, at Thanet.^[1]
• 852
  • Saint Swithun becomes Bishop of Winchester.^[1]
• 853
  • King Ethelwulf sends his son Alfred to the papal court in Rome.^[1]
• 865
  • Ethelred becomes King of Wessex.^[1]
  • Danish invasion force lands in East Anglia.^[1]
• 866
  • Danes capture York.^[1]
• 867
  • Danes defeat Northumbrians and install a puppet ruler.^[1]
• 869
  • 20 November - Battle of Hoxne: Danes defeat East Anglians, killing King Edmund the Martyr.^[1]
• 870
  • Danes capture Reading.^[1]
• 871
  • January - Battle of Ashdown: Ethelred defeats the Danes.^[1]
  • 23 April - Ethelred dies; succeeded by his brother Alfred the Great.^[1]
• 874
  • Danes appoint a puppet ruler in Mercia.^[1]
• 875
  • Monks leave Lindisfarne with the body of Saint Cuthbert, and settle at Chester-le-Street.^[1]
• 876
  • Danes capture southern Northumbria, and found the Kingdom of York.^[1]
• 877
  • Saxons kill Rhodri the Great and his son Gwriad.^[2]
  • Danes capture Exeter, and settle in the Five Boroughs.^[1]
• 878
  • January - Danes capture Chippenham, and take control of much of Wessex.^[1]
  • Easter - Alfred constructs a fort at Athelney, and holds out against the Danes.^[1]
  • 11 May - Battle of Edington: Alfred defeats the Danes. Guthrum baptised.^[1]
  • Danes take control of East Anglia.^[1]
  • Princes of southern Wales acknowledge Alfred as their overlord.^[1]
• 886
  • Alfred restores London to Mercia.
  • Alred signs a treaty with Guthrum, granting the territory between the Thames and the Tees to the Danes; later known as the Danelaw.^[1]
• 892
  • Danes invade again, under the leadership of Hastein.^[1]
  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle first compiled.^[1]
• 893
  • Battle of Buttington Island: Alfred joins with Welsh forces to push back the Danes to Chester.^[1]
  • Asser of Sherborne writes the Life of Alfred.^[1]
• 894
  • Danish forces reach the Thames estuary.^[1]
• 895
  • Alfred blockades the Danish fleet at the River Lea; Danes retreat to Bridgnorth.^[1]
• 896
  • Danish army leaves Wessex.^[1]
• 899
  • 26 October - King Alfred of Wessex dies; succeeded by his son, Edward the Elder.^[1]

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