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 are:
  • 31 December, 870 - Englefield
  • 4 January - Reading
  • 8 January - Ashdown
  • 22 January - Battle of Basing
  • 22 March - Merton
  • May - Battle of Wilton
• Alfred the Great succeeds as king of Wessex after Ethelred's death.
• Reading, England is 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 his capital.
• An incomplete marriage contract, dated to October 6 of this year, is the earliest dated document in the Cairo Geniza.
• Tønsberg, the oldest surviving town in the Nordic countries, is founded.
• Svatopluk I becomes king of Great Moravia.

Deaths

• January 8 ? King Bagsecg, Viking leader (at the Battle of Ashdown)
• April 23 ? King Ethelred of Wessex (in battle)

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