January 8
794 Vikings attacked Lindisfarne Island (northeast
coast of England).
871 King Ethelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred (the
Great) defeated the Danish Vikings at the Battle of Ashdown.
1081 Henry V, Holy
Roman Emperor was born. The last of the Salic or Frankish family of rulers of
the Holy Roman Empire, Henry was crowned in 1111.
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