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8th June 793: Viking raiders attack Lindisfarne in Northumbria

8th June 2026
Tagged as: Anglo-Saxon, Britain, Christianity, Danelaw, England, Lindisfarne, Monastery, Norse, Northumbria, Paganism, Scandinavia, Vikings

Norse raiders attacked the holy island of Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast in an event that is generally accepted as the start of the ‘Viking’ period of British history.

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13th December 902: Æthelwold’s revolt against Edward the Elder is defeated

13th December 2022
Tagged as: Anglo-Saxon, Danelaw, Edward the Elder, England, Medieval, Mercia, Northumbria, Vikings, Wessex

Æthelwold ætheling, a claimant to the Anglo-Saxon throne was defeated at the Battle of the Holme.

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13th November 1002: English King Æthelred the Unready ‘ordered slain all the Danish men who were in England’ in what became known as the Saint Brice’s Day Massacre

13th November 2022
Tagged as: Aethelred, Danelaw, Danes, England, Ethelred the Unready, Massacre, Saint Brice's Day Massacre, Viking

While it is believed that there was considerable loss of life, actual numbers of Danes who were killed in the St Brice’s Day Massacre are unknown.

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8th June 793: Viking raiders attack Lindisfarne in Northumbria

13th December 902: Æthelwold’s revolt against Edward the Elder is defeated

13th November 1002: English King Æthelred the Unready ‘ordered slain all the Danish men who were in England’ in what became known as the Saint Brice’s Day Massacre

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

5th September 1698: Peter the Great of Russia imposes a tax on beards

4th September 476: End of the Western Roman Empire when Romulus Augustulus is overthrown by the barbarian general Odoacer

3rd September 1260: Battle of Ain Jalut allows the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt to permanently halt the Mongol advance

1st September 1604: The Sikh Adi Granth first installed at the Golden Temple

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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