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519 Cerdic
becomes king of Wessex
534 Cynric
becomes the King of Wessex.
552 Cynric
, king of Wessex, captures the fort at Old Sarum.
556 Cynric
and Ceawlin
of Wessex fight against the Britons at Beranburh.
560 Ceawlin of Wessex
becomes King of Wessex (traditional date).
592 After the great slaughter at Woddesbeorg, Ceawlin
is deposed as both king of Wessex and Bretwalda
.
674 Cenfus and then Aescwine succeed to the throne of Wessex
685 Surrey
takes Wessex as its overlord.
686 Kingdom of Kent
attacked and conquered by West Saxons
under Caedwalla
722 War between Wessex and Sussex
755 Cynewulf deposes king Sebright of Wessex and takes the kingdom.
787 the first three Viking
ships landed in Wessex and the Norsemen started to plunder towns and coastal monasteries
802 Egbert
becomes king of Wessex.
839 Ethelwulf
succeeds Egbert
as king of Wessex.
855 Ethelwulf
, king of Wessex and Bretwalda
, abdicates in favor of his son Ethelbald.
856 Ethelbald usurps the throne of Wessex from his father Ethelwulf
860 Ethelbert succeeds as king of Wessex.
865 Ethelred
succeeds as king of Wessex (or 866).
866 Ethelred
succeeds as king of Wessex (or 865).
871 Nine battles are fought between the Danes and Wessex. Of two of them the place and date are not recorded, the others were:
871 Alfred the Great
succeeds as king of Wessex after Ethelred
's death.
876 The Danes attack Wareham, breaking their peace treaty with Wessex.
878 The Danes force king Alfred the Great
of Wessex to retreat to a fort in Athelney, Somerset. Later, in the Battle of Ethandun (Edington), King Alfred the Great
of Wessex defeats the Danes of the Danelaw under Guthrum. The Treaty of Wedmore divides England between the Anglo-Saxons
and the Danes.
878 The Danes force king Alfred the Great
of Wessex to retreat to a fort in Athelney, Somerset. Later, in the Battle of Ethandun (Edington), King Alfred the Great
of Wessex defeats the Danes of the Danelaw under Guthrum. The Treaty of Wedmore divides England between the Anglo-Saxons
and the Danes.
886 Alfred the Great
captures London
and renames it Lundenburgh. The boundaries between Wessex and the Danelaw are shifted.
1017 England is divided into the earldoms of Wessex, Mercia
, East Anglia
and Northumbria
.
1045 Harold Godwinson
becomes Earl of Wessex.
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