9th century in England

9th century in England:
Other centuries
8th century \| 10th century

Events from the 9th century in England.

Events

801
- Northumbrian invasion of Mercia fails.^[1]
802
- Egbert becomes King of Wessex.^[1]
803
- Council of Clofeshoh abolishes the Archbishopric of Lichfield.^[1]
805
- 12 May - Death of Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 3 August - Enthronement of Wulfred as Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 Gafulford^[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] and receives the submission of the Northumbrian king at Dore.
830
- Nennius completes his Historia Brittonum.^[1]
832
- 24 March - Death of Wulfred, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 9 June - Consecration of Feologild as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 30 August - Death of Feologild.
833
- 27 August - Consecration of Ceolnoth as Archbishop of Canterbury.
835
- Vikings raid Sheppey.^[1]
838
- Battle of Hingston Down: Egbert of Wessex defeats combined Danish and Cornish armies.^[1]
841
- Vikings raid the south and east coasts, including the Kingdom of Lindsey.
842
- Vikings raid London, Rochester, and Southampton.^[1]
844
- Approximate date of Battle of Cetyll in which Beorhtwulf of Mercia defeats Merfyn Frych, King of Gwynedd.
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, on the Isle of Thanet.^[1]
852
- Saint Swithun becomes Bishop of Winchester.^[1]
- Probable death of King Beorhtwulf of Mercia.
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]
- 4 February - Death of Ceolnoth, Archbishop of Canterbury. He is succeeded by Æthelred.
871
- January - Battle of Ashdown: Ethelred defeats the Danes.^[1]
- 23 April - Ethelred dies; succeeded by his brother Alfred the Great.^[1]
- c. April - Danes defeat Alfred's forces.
- May - Danes defeat Alfred at Wilton, Wiltshire.
- Autumn - Danes withdraw from Reading to take up winter quarters in Mercian London.
874
- Danes appoint a puppet ruler in Mercia.^[1]
875
- Monks leave Lindisfarne, which is being invaded by Danes, with the body of Saint Cuthbert, and settle at Chester-le-Street.^[1]
- Donyarth, last recorded King of Cornwall, drowns in what is thought to be the River Fowey.^[2]
876
- Danes capture southern Northumbria, and found the Kingdom of York,^[1] perhaps under Halfdan Ragnarsson.
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]
- Early - Battle of Cynwit: Men of Wessex led by Odda, Ealdorman of Devon, prevent an attempted siege by Vikings under Ubba on the south coast of the Bristol Channel and capture their raven banner.
- Easter - Alfred constructs a fort at Athelney, and holds out against the Danes.^[1]
- c.4–6 May - Alfred assembles troops at 'Egbert's Stone' on the edge of Salisbury Plain.
- c.11 May - Battle of Edington in Wiltshire: Alfred defeats the Danes and besieges them at Chippenham. They capitulate and, by the Treaty of Wedmore, Guthrum is baptised^[1] at Aller, Somerset, and retreats in the first instance to Cirencester.
- Guthrum takes control of East Anglia.^[1]
- Princes of southern Wales acknowledge Alfred as their overlord.^[1]
886
- Alfred restores London to Mercia.
- Alfred signs a treaty with Guthrum, granting the territory between the Thames and the Tees to the Danes; later known as the Danelaw.^[1]
888
- 30 June - Death of Æthelred, Archbishop of Canterbury. He is succeeded by Plegmund.
890
- The Welsh ruler Anarawd ap Rhodri, King of Gwynedd, makes the first ceremonial visit to an English court, that of Alfred.
- Approximate date - Alfred begins to commission and undertake a series of translations into Old English, beginning with his own version of Pope Gregory I's Pastoral Care.
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]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 38–42. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Annales Cambriae.
↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

9th century in England

Events

References

See also