THE DAY IN HISTORY · JUNE 8
June 8 in history
What happened on June 8: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 793, each linked to the map that shows it.
Raiders from the sea strike the monastery of Lindisfarne. Alcuin writes that nobody had thought such a voyage possible — the Viking Age has begun.
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