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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:
- 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.
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