{"slug": "scandinavian-york", "label": "Scandinavian York", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_York", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q889970", "qid": "Q889970", "description": "state", "entries": 13, "years": 13, "span": [876, 981], "span_label": ["876 CE", "981 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-northumbria", "label": "Kingdom of Northumbria", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "edward-the-elder", "label": "Edward the Elder", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "mercia", "label": "Mercia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "military-alliance", "label": "Military alliance", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thelfld", "label": "Æthelflæd", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantine-ii-of-scotland", "label": "Constantine II of Scotland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "brycheiniog", "label": "Brycheiniog", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "york", "label": "York", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wales", "label": "Wales", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 876, "year_label": "876 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Viking leader Halfdan Ragnarsson formally establishes the Danish kingdom of York, after the removal of the puppet king Ricsige of Northumbria, and becomes the first monarch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267070562#Britain", "title": "876", "revid": 1267070562, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 885, "year_label": "885 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Kings Hyfaidd of Dyfed, Elisedd of Brycheiniog and Hywel of Glywysing, being harassed by the armies of King Anarawd in Wales, seek the protection of Alfred the Great, and submit to his overlordship. Anarawd seeks an alliance with King Guthred of York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366655145#Britain", "title": "885", "revid": 1366655145, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 909, "year_label": "909 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Edward the Elder despatches an Anglo-Saxon army to attack the Northumbrian Vikings, and ravages Scandinavian York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367656270#Britain", "title": "909", "revid": 1367656270, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 910, "year_label": "910 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – Battle of Tettenhall: King Edward the Elder attacks the joint-Kings Eowils and Halfdan of Norse York. All three Viking monarchs are killed in battle (one chronicle mentions a third brother) and the Viking army is decisively defeated by allied forces of Mercia and Wessex. The co-Kings are succeeded by Ragnall ua Ímair.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130820#Britain", "title": "910", "revid": 1341130820, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 913, "year_label": "913 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Edward the Elder begins with the 'reconquest' of the Danelaw and occupies Essex. Death of High-Reeve Eadwulf II. He is succeeded by his son Ealdred I, who is almost immediately driven out by King Ragnall ua Ímair of Norse York. Ealdred flees to the court of King Constantine II of Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267070619#Britain", "title": "913", "revid": 1267070619, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 917, "year_label": "917 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Lady Æthelflæd of Mercia cements an alliance with King Constantine II of Scotland against Norse York. She captures the fortress at Derby (belonging to the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw), while her brother, King Edward the Elder, takes Towcester. Æthelflæd's armies also ravage Brycheiniog (Wales) in revenge for killing the Mercian abbot Ecbryht (see 916).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468140#Britain", "title": "917", "revid": 1364468140, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 918, "year_label": "918 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Lady Æthelflæd of Mercia begins to intrigue with disaffected factions within the Norse Kingdom of York (also referred to as Jórvik). Mercian troops ravage the local countryside and peacefully overrun the fortress of Leicester (belonging to the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw), while her brother, King Edward the Elder, takes Stamford.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509557#Britain", "title": "918", "revid": 1341509557, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 919, "year_label": "919 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Ragnall ua Ímair, a Viking chief from Ireland, takes control of the Norse Kingdom of York (also referred to as Jórvik) and the English-ruled Earldom of Northumbria. He establishes himself as king at York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509579#Britain", "title": "919", "revid": 1341509579, "section": "Events › By Place › Britain"}}, {"year": 927, "year_label": "927 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Amlaíb Cuarán, Viking king of Scandinavian York (d. 981)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341517107#Births", "title": "927", "revid": 1341517107, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 939, "year_label": "939 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 27", "text": "October 27 – King Æthelstan dies at Gloucester after a 15-year reign. He is buried at Malmesbury Abbey and succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I (\"the Magnificent\"). After Æthelstan's death Olaf Guthfrithson (or his cousin, Anlaf Cuaran) a Viking leader who rules Dublin, is proclaimed king of York (south of Northumbria).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656722#England", "title": "939", "revid": 1366656722, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 941, "year_label": "941 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Olaf Guthfrithson, a Norse-Irish chieftain, is killed while raiding an ancient Anglian church at Tyninghame (Northern Northumbria). He is succeeded by his cousin Olaf Sigtryggsson as ruler of Jórvik (modern Yorkshire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341512041#Europe", "title": "941", "revid": 1341512041, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 954, "year_label": "954 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Eric I (Bloodaxe) is killed at Stainmore allowing King Eadred to recover York, reuniting Northumbria with that of All England. High-Reeve Osulf I of Bamburgh is appointed ealdorman (\"earl\") of Northumbria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360671354#British_Isles", "title": "954", "revid": 1360671354, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 981, "year_label": "981 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Amlaíb Cuarán, Viking king of Scandinavian York", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366191661#Deaths", "title": "981", "revid": 1366191661, "section": "Deaths"}}]}