Tenth Century
A period of relative peace as Hywel Dda comes to dominate most of Wales and forms an alliance with Wessex against the Vikings who have destroyed the power of Mercia.
- 925 the Cornish Welsh rebelled once more and were evicted from Exeter by King Athelstan of England who annexes Cornwall to England and defines the border of Cornwall (with England proper) at the River Tamar.
- 940 when Idwal Foel of Gwynedd invaded England and was driven back and later deprived of his lands.
- 943 A combined English and Scottish attack on the Welsh Kingdom of Strathclyde results in the slaying Dyfnwal III of Strathclyde the reputed "last king of the Cumbrians" at a site in Cumberland now called Dunmail Raise. Strathclyde is divided between England and Scotland.
- 962 King Edgar the Peaceful invades Gwynedd.
- 985 Hywel ap Ieuaf of Gwynedd is killed fighting Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia.
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