The start of the Viking Age, with the sack of Lindisfarne, also coincided with Charlemagne's Saxon Wars, or Christian wars with pagans in Saxony.

* June 8 – Vikings sack the monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria, their first major viking attack in England.

And against the sack of Megara, she had to face the temporary capture of the castle of Aegina by Kemal Reis and the carrying off of 2000 Aeginetans.

After the victory, in 534, the Temple treasure of Jerusalem, looted by the Romans in 70 AD and taken to Carthage by the Vandals after their sack of Rome in 455, was brought to Constantinople and deposited for a time, perhaps in the Church of St. Polyeuctus, before being returned to Jerusalem in either the Church of the Resurrection or the New Church.

Max and Moritz was a series of severely moralistic tales in the vein of German children's stories such as Struwwelpeter (" Shockheaded Peter "); in one, the boys, after perpetrating some mischief, are tossed into a sack of grain, run through a mill and consumed by a flock of geese.

By the 9th century, eunuch singers were well-known ( not least in the choir of Hagia Sophia ), and remained so until the sack of Constantinople by the Western forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

Support for his leadership was eroded even further by his refusal to sack the Minister for Air Peter Howson in order to defuse the scandal, fuelling criticism from within the party that Holt was " weak " and lacked Menzies ' ruthlessness.

* 1631 – The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.

However, by the late 14th century, these low-boarded vessels were at a disadvantage against newer, taller vessels – when the Victual Brothers, in the employee of the Hansa, attacked Bergen in the autumn of 1393, the " great ships " of the pirates could not be boarded by the Norwegian levy ships called out by Margaret I of Denmark and the raiders were able to sack the town with impunity.

Baccio Bandinelli took over the project of Hercules and Cacus from the master himself, but it was little more popular then than it is now, and maliciously compared by Benvenuto Cellini to " a sack of melons ", though it had a long-lasting effect in apparently introducing relief panels on the pedestal of statues.

In 1527, the Florentine citizens, encouraged by the sack of Rome, threw out the Medici and restored the republic.

Serious damage was inflicted on the partly built temple by Lucius Cornelius Sulla's sack of Athens in 86 BC.

The pocket is called a pearl sack, and grows with time by cell division ; in this way the pearl grows also.

The historian Zosimus in his Historia Nova suggests that during the sack of Rome in 410 by Alaric I, Innocent I was willing to permit private pagan practices as a temporary measure.

Although the Crusades were, in part, originally intended to support the Byzantine Empire at Constantinople from attack by Turkish invaders, the Fourth Crusade resulted in the sack of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204, which greatly upset Pope Innocent.

On their way to the Holy Land the ships did not miss the occasion to sack some Byzantine islands: the Pisan crusaders were led by their archbishop Daibert, the future patriarch of Jerusalem.

A style used by medieval English Longbowmen and several other cultures, an arrow bag is a simple drawstring cloth sack with a leather spacer at the top to keep the arrows divided.

Elway would eventually be replaced by Gary Kubiak, who took a sack to end the game, and the Giants were victorious in a 39-20 rout of the Broncos.

A sack by Giants ' defensive end Leonard Marshall early in the fourth quarter knocked Montana out of the game.

But after an incomplete pass and an 8-yard sack by linebacker Wilber Marshall, Edwards broke up a third down pass intended for Andre Reed.

A third down, 9-yard sack by safety LeRoy Butler forced the Patriots to punt on their ensuing drive, and Howard returned Tom Tupa's punt 34 yards to the New England 47-yard line.

On the ensuing drive, a 7-yard sack by Patriots cornerback Otis Smith helped the New England defense force the Packers to punt, and the Patriots got the ball back with great field position after Meggett returned Craig Hentrich's 48-yard punt 6 yards to the New England 47-yard line.

During the sack, the port was set on fire, the consular war fleet was destroyed, and two prominent senators were kidnapped.

A British fleet anchored off Frankfort in 1814 on its way to sack Bangor and Hampden.

During the summer of 1157, he sent a fleet of 164 ships carrying 10, 000 men to sack Euboea and Almira.

When an English fleet attacked Cadiz in 1596, his allegedly slow response was blamed for giving the English enough time to sack the city.

When she saw the fleet of Aeneas on its way to Italy, after the sack of Troy by the Greeks, she planned to scatter it by means of strong winds.

In 1667, l ' Olonnais sailed from Tortuga with a fleet of eight ships and a crew of six hundred pirates to sack Maracaibo.

His fleet penetrated even into the Dardanelles, before proceeding to sack the Empire's second city, Thessalonica, all while the Empire's fleet remained passive in the face of the Arabs ' superior numbers.

In 1624, Fernando de Silva led a Spanish fleet to sack a Dutch ship near the Siamese shoreline.

* The Vikings sack Iona.

* Vikings sack the Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey.

* The Vikings also sack Hamburg and Melun.

The Vikings were mainly in search of navigable rivers and large cities to sack.

Eller is credited as the Vikings all-time sack leader with 130½.

In Week 17 facing the Vikings, Peppers was awarded a. 5 sack by the league, that he originally split with Matt Toeaina, giving him his 100th career sack making him the twenty eighth player in NFL history to achieve that milestone.

Despite the gaffe, the Vikings won the game 27-22, with the final margin of victory provided by a Carl Eller touchdown return of a fumble caused by a Marshall sack.

Originally, Gbaja-Biamila was not credited with a third sack against Vikings quarterback Kelly Holcomb during the Packers vs. Vikings game on September 30.

Harris started in 5 of the 10 games he played and finished his second stint with the Vikings with 32 tackles and 1 sack, and also scored his first NFL touchdown after returning a fumble 27 yards in week 12 in Jacksonville.

He finished the season with 140 tackles, a sack, and had his first career touchdown on a 34 yard interception from Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper.

His first career start was against the Vikings, recording 8 tackles, and his first career sack was against Baltimore, sacking Stoney Case.

The Vikings sack the castle and take the spoils to the ships, Solomon returning to his own land.

On the Vikings ' opening drive, Culpepper narrowly avoided a sack with a short completion to running back Moe Williams, who then dodged a tackle attempt from safety Darren Sharper and took off for a 68-yard touchdown reception.

A 13-yard sack by Rams safety Billy Jenkins on the Vikings ensuing drive forced a punt, and Warner once again went to work.

Another sack, this time by linebacker Charlie Clemons, forced Minnesota to punt again, and once again the Rams decided to go deep, but this time the Vikings were ready, and cornerback Jimmy Hitchcock intercepted Warner's pass at his own 4-yard line.

He recorded seven tackles ( four solo ) on the season, with his first and only sack of the season coming against Daunte Culpepper, then with the Minnesota Vikings.

But a third down sack forced the Rams to punt again and the Vikings kept the ball to run out the clock.

On the Vikings next drive, Fred Dryer hit Fran Tarkenton on a sack, forcing a fumble that was recovered by Jack Youngblood at the Viking 11.

** Vikings raid the Galician estuaries, are defeated by Ramiro I of Asturias, attack Lisbon, Beja and the Algarve, and sack Seville.

* 871 – Vikings sailed up the Thames here to sack Chertsey Abbey