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Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vikings at Basing.
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Battle of Basing
Battle between Vikings and West Saxons in 871
The Battle of Basing was a victory of a Viking army over the West Saxons at the royal estate of Basing in Hampshire on about 22 January 871.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Wessex
Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Æthelred I of Wessex
King of Wessex from 865 to 871
Æthelred I was King of Wessex from 865 until his death in 871. He was the fourth of five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, four of whom in turn became king. Æthelred succeeded his elder brother Æthelberht and was followed by his youngest brother, Alfred the Great. Æthelred had…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Danelaw
Part of England where Danish law applied
The Danelaw was the part of England between the late ninth century and the Norman Conquest under Anglo-Saxon rule in which Danish laws applied. The Danelaw originated in the conquest and occupation of large parts of eastern and northern England by Danish Vikings in the late…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Vikings
Norse seafarers, merchants and raiders
Vikings were a seafaring people originally from Scandinavia, who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe. They voyaged as far as the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East, Greenland, and Vinland. In…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Old Basing
Village in Hampshire, England
Old Basing is a village in Hampshire, England, just east of Basingstoke. It was called Basengum in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Basinges in the Domesday Book.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
January 22
Day of the year
January 22 is the 22nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 343 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)