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Events

Nine battles are fought between the Danes and Wessex . Of two of them the place and date are not recorded, the others were:

--- Englefield ( 31 December 870 )

--- Reading ( 4 January )

--- Ashdown ( 8 January )

--- Basing ( 22 January )

--- Merton ( 22 March )

--- Wilton (May)

Alfred The Great succeeds as king of Wessex after Ethelred 's death.

Reading , England occupied by the Norse .

After the battle at Wilton, peace is made, with the Danes and Alfred each governing part of England .

Rhodri ''Mawr'' ('the Great') of Gwynedd inherits Seisyllwig , thus uniting most of Wales under his rule

Louis II captures Ban, the headquarters of the Saracens .

Alfred makes Winchester to his capital.

An incomplete marriage contract, dated to October 6 of this year, is the earliest dated document in the Cairo Geniza .

Foundation of Tønsberg , the oldest surviving town in the Nordic Countries .

Svatopluk I becomes king of Great Moravia

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April 23 - King Ethelred Of Wessex (killed in battle)

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