870s

Events and Trends

 * The Danes invade  and conquer . Several battles are fought with, but then peace is made . The Danes go on to establish the  in other parts of England. In , the Danes attack Wessex again, and in 878 king  of Wessex has to retreat to a single fort in the marshes of , but later that year he defeats the Danes, and England is divided in a Danish part in the northeast and a Wessex part in the south and west.
 * In the southwest of England, the continue to be driven back, with their King Dungarth (or Doniert or Dumgarth) drowning in battle around the middle of the decade.
 * — . unites.