Battle of Clontarf
April 23, 1014
The aging Irish high king Brian Boru, said to have prayed for victory under a linen awning, watched his army crush a Viking-Leinster coalition on a Dublin beach on Good Friday. Brian was killed in his tent by a fleeing Norseman. Ireland's unity died with him that morning. The Norse of Dublin, though defeated, remained in the city as merchants and gradually assimilated into Irish society.
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Also in 1014 (3 other events on record)
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.