Viking raid on Lindisfarne
A plundered monastery shocks Europe and opens the Viking Age
Norse seafarers plundered the famous monastery on a tidal island off Northumbria. The raid, which shocked Christian Europe, is traditionally taken as the start of the Viking Age.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Asia
- 802 Founding of the Khmer Empire — 9 years later
Americas
- c. 800–950 Drought and the Classic Maya collapse — 7 years later
Alive at the time
- Charlemagne (aged 45)
- Emperor Kanmu (aged 56)
- Harun al-Rashid (aged 27)
- Louis the Pious (aged 15)
- Al-Khwarizmi (aged 13)