Timeline of Northumbria and Northumberland - 700

700

  • 709 Acca is appointed as Bishop of Hexham.
  • 715 Eadfrith creates the Lindisfarne Gospels.
  • 731 Bede writes the Ecclesiastical History of the English People at Jarrow.
  • 735 Alcuin of York is born, later a major figure in the Carolingian Renaissance under Charlemagne.
  • 793 Vikings raid Lindisfarne.
  • 794 Vikings raid Jarrow.

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