866. Death of Ethelbert. Accession of his brother Ethelred.
870. Edmund, king of East Anglia, put to death by the Danes, for refusing to renounce Christianity.
871. Battles fought with the Danes at Reading, Ashdown, Basing, and Merton; death of Ethelred.
ACCESSION OF HIS BROTHER ALFRED. The Danes defeated Alfred at Wilton.
875. Alfred equipped a small fleet: First English navy.
878. The Danes took Chippenham. Alfred, unable to cope with the enemy, retired to the Isle of Athelney, in Somersetshire. He suddenly re-appeared, and defeated them at Ethandune. Treaty of Wedmore, between Alfred and Gothrun, the Danish leader.
Alfred ceded to him East Anglia and portions of Essex and Mercia.
893. Hastings, a Danish leader, invaded England.
894. Alfred defeated the Danes at Farnham, in Surrey.