On This Day in 1066
28 September 1066: William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy (pictured), lands at Pevensey Bay in Sussex, beginning the Norman Conquest of England. King Harold Godwinson had just defeated a Viking army at the Battle of Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire on 25 September. Upon hearing of the landing, Harold marched his exhausted army roughly 241 miles south to meet William at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066.
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