Founding of trading town of Birka
Sweden
Timeline
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737
Construction of the Danevirke begins
Denmark, Germany -
750
-
793
Sacking of Lindisfarne Monastery
England -
795
Sacking of Raithlin Island Monastery
Ireland -
800
Elder Futhark replaced by 16-Rune Futhark
Scandinavia
Hedeby centre of Baltic trade
Denmark -
815
Floki Vilgerdason of Rogaland discovers Iceland
Iceland -
834
Oseberg ship burial
Norway -
838
First Rus Vikings arrive at Miklagard (Constantinople)
Turkey -
840
Dublin founded by Turgeis
Ireland
Viking base camp established at Woodstown, Waterford
Ireland -
843
Raid on Nantes
France -
844
Raid on Moorish Seville
Spain -
860
Hastein raids Luna thinking it Rome
Italy
First raid on Constantinople
Turkey
Rurik becomes ruler of Novgorod
Russia -
866
Jorvik founded
England
“Great Heathen Host” in Britain led by brothers Halfdan, Ivar & Ubbi
England -
870
Guthrum shipwrecked in Unst, Shetland but escapes
Scotland
King Harald Fairhair King of Norway
Norway -
871
Alfred the Great King of Wessex
England
Guthrum arrives in England & leads “Great Summer Army”
England
“Year of Battles”
England -
874
Settlement of Iceland begins
Iceland -
878
Alfred defeats Guthrum at Battle of Eddington
England
Harald Harfagra unifies Norway
Norway -
879
Rurik establishes Kiev
Ukraine -
885
Siege of Paris
France
Birth of Erik Bloodaxe
Norway
Murder of Godfrid, Duke of Frisia
Netherlands -
886
Alfred creates the Danelaw
England -
900
Gokstad ship burial
Norway
Hedeby at its height as trading centre
Denmark, Germany -
911
Rollo (Hrolf) granted lands by the Franks & founds Normandy
France -
918
Reginald King of Waterford, captures York
Ireland -
920
Ulfljotr brings Gulathing law to Iceland
Iceland -
922
Ibn Fadlan, Arab ambassador, writes account of ship cremation
Russia -
930
Death of Harald Fairhair
Norway
Erik Bloodaxe, King of Norway
Norway
First Althing at Thingvellir
Iceland -
958
Harold Bluetooth, King of Denmark
Denmark
Birth of Olav Trygvasson “Crowbone”
Norway -
982
Erik the Red discovers Greenland
Greenland -
985
Svein Forkbeard King of Denmark
Denmark -
993
Battle of Maldon – Trygvasson V. Brythnoth
England -
995
Olav Trygvasson King of Norway
Norway -
1000
Iceland officially converts to Christianity
Iceland
Olav Trygvasson killed by Svein Forkbeard & King Olaf of Sweden
Norway
Ethnic cleansing of Danes by Aethelred Unraed
England
Leif Erikson founds L’Anse Aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland (Vinland)
Canada -
1002
Brian Boru King of Ireland
Ireland -
1013
Svein Forkbeard defeats Aethelred Unraed
England -
1014
Death of Svein Forkbeard
England
Brian Boru defeats Jarl Sigurd of Orkney at Battle of Clontarf – both slain
Ireland -
1015
Vinland settlement abandoned
Canada -
1016
Cnut the Great, son of Svein Forkbeard, conquers England
England -
1028
Cnut , King of England & Denmark, conquors Norway
Norway -
1050
City of Oslo founded
Norway -
1066
King Harald Hardrada of Norway killed at Battle of Stamford Bridge
England
Hedeby sacked by Polabian Slavs – ceases as trading centre
Denmark, Germany
William the Conqueror King of England
England
King Harold Godwinesson of England killed at Battle of Hastings
England -
1075
Adam of Bremen writes Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum
Germany -
1134
Battle of Foteviken
Sweden -
1170
Invasion by Normans marks end of Viking Age -
1185
Saxo Grammaticus writes Gesta Danorum
Germany -
1200
Ibn Dihya writes account of Al-Ghazal’s embassy to Ireland
Ireland
Orkneyinga Saga written by Icelandic author
Iceland -
1220
Snorri Sturluson writes Prose Edda
Iceland -
1225
Snorri Sturluson writes Heimskringla
Iceland -
1250
Poems of Poetic Edda collected
Iceland -
1263
Battle of Largs
Scotland -
1312
Final reference to Vikings in Irish history in court case held at Waterford
Ireland