The Kingdom of Northumbria was one of the major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of early medieval Britain, formed by the union of the Anglian realms of Bernicia and Deira and stretching from the Humber to the Firth of Forth. In the seventh and eighth centuries it was a centre of learning and Christian culture, home to the monastery of Lindisfarne, the scholar Bede and the Lindisfarne Gospels. The Synod of Whitby in 664 brought the church there into line with Roman practice. Viking raids from the end of the eighth century, and the arrival of the Great Heathen Army in 865, destroyed the old dynasty. York became a Norse-ruled city, and in the tenth century the kingdom was absorbed into the Kingdom of England.
Before and after
- from 642 CE to 799 CEArab–Khazar Wars
- 642 CEOrigins of sumo
- 3 November 644 CEDeath of Umar ibn Al-Khattāb
- from 650 CE to 1377Srivijaya
- from 653 CE to 954 CEKingdom of Northumbria
- c. 653 CEEruption of Dakataua
- from 656 CE to 661 CEFirst Fitna
- 661 CEDeath of Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
- from 661 CE to 750 CEUmayyad Caliphate
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The era
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