The establishment of Christianity as state-religion took place around 869 AD, during the rule of Emperor Basil I ( r. 867 – 886 ).

In 867 AD, Viking pirates from Zealand and Uppsala landed in Scotland.

In 857 AD Patriarch Ignatios of Constantinople was sent in exile to the island, where he was imprisoned for 10 years before being re-elected as Patriarch in 867 AD.

* He is depicted as a violent psychopath in 2000 AD ( Canon Fodder, issues # 861 – 867 ) by Mark Millar and Chris Weston.

Ivar and the Danes succeeded in holding York against a vain attempt to relieve the city in AD 867.

The hereditary chieftains of Umhall were the O ' Malleys, recorded in the area in 814 AD when they successfully repelled an onslaught by the Vikings in Clew Bay.

In AD 794, the Vikings descended on Iona.

Raids by the Vikings were frequent after about AD 800, and the Norsemen took control of large parts of what is now England.

This part of Greenland was apparently unpopulated at the time when the Vikings arrived ; the direct ancestors of the modern Inuit Greenlanders are not thought to have arrived until around AD 1200 from the northwest.

The Scandinavian Vikings, or Varangians, also took part in the forming of Russian identity and state in the early Kievan Rus ' period of the late 1st millennium AD.

* Sawyer, P. H. Kings and Vikings: Scandinavia and Europe AD 700-1100.

The monastery was destroyed by the Vikings sometime after AD 824.

A few centuries after, in the period c. 850-1050 AD, the north and east of England and the islands and coasts of Scotland were settled by Norwegian and Danish ' Vikings '.

; sometimes when a man from one nation was hostage in another nation, his position as hostage was more or less voluntary: for example the position of Æscferð son of Ecglāf, who was a Northumbrian hostage in Wessex ; he fought under Byrhtnōð against Vikings in the Battle of Maldon on 10 August 991 AD ( ref.

Wakefield was probably settled by the Angles in the 5th or 6th century and after 876 AD the area was controlled by the Vikings who founded twelve hamlets or thorpes around Wakefield.

An additional language, known as Norn, developed on Orkney and Shetland after Vikings had settled there around 800 AD, but this language became extinct around 1700.

Although this is uncertain, the breed's ancestors may have been short-haired cats brought to Norway by the Vikings around 1000 AD, and may also have included the long-haired Siberian and Turkish Angora.

Its ancestors may include black and white shorthair cats brought to Norway from Great Britain sometime after 1000 AD by the Vikings and longhaired cats brought to Norway by Crusaders.

The town was founded by the Vikings in about 800 AD.

After their Abbey had been ransacked by Vikings in 997 AD, the monks rebuilt it with the help of Ordulf, Earl of Devon.

It was from Ireland in about 960 AD that these Norsemen or Vikings first came to the west coast of Lancashire, first trading or raiding and then settling.

The area is known to have been populated during the Bronze Age, and scattered hamlets have existed there ever since, including a village called Kilgrimol or Kilgrimhow, which is believed to have been founded in around 900 AD by Vikings expelled from Dublin.

In 900 AD, Taransay was taken over by Vikings when they invaded Scotland.

Local history contends that the town of Wicklow was founded by the Vikings, probably around 795 AD.

Dunnottar is also mentioned as a site for a battle between King Donald II and the Danish Vikings in 900 AD.

It is probable that this church was burnt down by the Vikings in their raid of 997 AD.

*-thwait ( Anglicized from the Old Danish thveit ) " meadow, clearing " introduced into British Isles by Vikings between 800 and 1066 AD

) It was sacked by the Vikings sometime between 859 and 862 AD, and destroyed by the Almoravid Yusuf ibn Tashfin in 1080 during his conquest of the Rif.

Clondalkin was sacked by Vikings from Denmark in 832 AD, and the monastery was burned to the ground.

On the eve of the 1st century AD, the settlement was seized by the Romans and became a military camp.

The Franks seized Trier from Roman administration in 459 AD.

The regent Wang Mang seized control of the government and ruled until AD 23.

It was devastated by the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, following which Nero seized much of the area to add to his personal domain.

" This is thought to refer to the vast quantity of treasure seized by the Romans following their victory in the Great Jewish Revolt in 70 AD.

Many years later, c. AD 58, the Chauci seized an opportunity to expel the Ampsivarii and occupy their lands at the mouth of the River Ems, whereby they gained a border with the Frisians to the west.

The Visigoths seized the region in 418 AD, but it passed to the Franks in 507.

After the Roman Empire disintegrated in 476 AD various barbarian tribes seized Antibes.

York's importance as the seat of Northumbria was confirmed when the Scandinavian warlord, Guthrum, headed for East Anglia, while Halfdan Ragnarsson seized power in AD 875.

Wang Mang () ( c. 45 BC – 6 October 23 AD ), courtesy name Jujun ( 巨君 ), was a Han Dynasty official who seized the throne from the Liu family and founded the Xin ( or Hsin, meaning " new ") Dynasty ( 新朝 ), ruling AD 9 – 23.

After the mysterious assassination of Chilperic in 584 AD, Fredegund seized his riches and took refuge in the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral.

Towards the end of his reign, or before his death, the Rashtrakutas under Krishna III invaded the Tamil Country, killed the Chola prince Rajaditya at Takkolam ( near Arakkonam ) in c. AD 948, and seized Tondainadu which they ruled for about a quarter of a century, confining the sway of the Cholas to their ancestral dominion comprising the modern day Tanjavur and Thiruchirapalli districts.

The Huna Kingdom of Sialkot ( of Mihir Kula 515 – 540 AD ), destroyed by Yashodharman, was subsequently seized by a new dynasty of kshatriyas called Tak.

According to investigation, Cantona would be chronologically situated between 600 and 1000 AD ; its splendor coincides with the fall of the main cities of the classical horizon ( it is even thought it had something to do with the Teotihuacan fall, by obstructing passage of products from the coast to the Highlands ) and with the arrival of warrior people who soon seized and dominated the region.

The Portuguese seized The Naskhah Sejarah Melayu in 1536 AD while attacking the Old Johor ( Johor Lama ).

When he died in 60 AD, the Romans seized control, prompting a second Iceni rebellion under Prasutagus ' wife Boudica.

Wang Mang promised at the time that he would return the throne to Emperor Ruzi as soon as he was old enough, but in 8 AD, Wang Mang seized the throne and established the Xin Dynasty.