{"slug": "viking-age", "label": "Viking Age", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213649", "qid": "Q213649", "description": "the period of European history characterised by Viking raids and trading", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [789, 1936], "span_label": ["789 CE", "1936 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "norway", "label": "Norway", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "county-of-flanders", "label": "County of Flanders", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "belgium", "label": "Belgium", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "denmark", "label": "Denmark", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "baltic-sea", "label": "Baltic Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "picts", "label": "Picts", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "francia", "label": "Francia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sweyn-forkbeard", "label": "Sweyn Forkbeard", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lower-saxony", "label": "Lower Saxony", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 789, "year_label": "789 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Constantine I is installed as king of the Picts. He becomes one of the greatest Scottish monarchs in the Viking period.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848283#Britain", "title": "789", "revid": 1340848283, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 808, "year_label": "808 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Viking Age: First Viking raid, by Danes against the Baltic coast. Godfred destroys the Slav settlement of Reric (near present-day Wismar), used as a strategic trade route. The population is displaced or abducted, to Hedeby (Denmark).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848803#Europe", "title": "AD 808", "revid": 1340848803, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 825, "year_label": "825 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Grímur Kamban becomes the first man to set foot in the Faroe Islands, and settles down in Funningur, on the northwest coast of Eysturoy (beginning the Norwegian Viking era on the islands).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941320#Europe", "title": "825", "revid": 1340941320, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 834, "year_label": "834 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Summer – The Viking ship of Oseberg near Tønsberg (modern Norway) is buried in a mound, during the Viking Age (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941786#Europe", "title": "834", "revid": 1340941786, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 847, "year_label": "847 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Viking Age: The Vikings plunder the Lower Rhine, as part of their attacks on the Empire of Francia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348153742#Europe", "title": "847", "revid": 1348153742, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 994, "year_label": "994 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – Viking Age: Danish Viking raiders, (probably) under King Sweyn Forkbeard, plunder the city of Stade (Lower Saxony). Count Lothair Udo I is captured and killed, during the battle with the pirates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350027284#Europe", "title": "994", "revid": 1350027284, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1048, "year_label": "1048 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "1048 or 1066 – End of the Viking Age: Vikings make an unsuccessful raid on the Kingdom of England; The raiders flee to Flanders (modern Belgium).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129783#England", "title": "1048", "revid": 1350129783, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Viking Age craftsman's Mästermyr chest is discovered in the Mästermyr mire (after which it is later named), west of Hemse, on the island of Gotland, Sweden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#September–October", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Events › September–October"}}]}