|
± 450
|
The Danish settle
in Scanië. |
|
± 500
|
The Danish in Jutland. |
|
± 560
|
Swedish dominion
about the Baltic Sea. |
|
± 789
|
Vikings begin their
attacks on England. |
|
± 793
|
The monastery of
Lindisfarne sacked by Vikings on 8 june. |
|
± 799
|
First attacks on
the Frankish realm. |
|
± 800
|
Norse Dicover Iceland. |
|
± 807
|
Vikings attacks
on Ireland. |
|
± 807
|
Danish vikings attacks
Friesland. |
|
± 808
|
Godfred, King of
Danmark, detroys the Slav town of Reric and transfers the merchants to
his own town of Schleswig. |
|
± 810
|
Murder of Hing Godfred. |
|
± 813
|
Danish royal expeittion
to Vestfold in South Norway to re-establish Danish overlordship. |
|
± 814
|
Harald Klak, ousted
pretender to royal power in Denmark, takes service wiyh Louis the Pious,
emperor of the Franks. |
|
± 820
|
Vikingattack on
Flanders and The Sienemouth. |
|
± 820
|
Establishment of
the Vikings in Ireland. |
|
± 823
|
Ebo, archbishop
of Rheims, visits Denmark to evangelize. |
|
± 825
|
Danish coinage in
Hedeby begins. |
|
± 826
|
Harald Klak is baptized
in Mainz and sent to Denmark with the missionary Ansgar in his follwing. |
|
± 829
|
Ansgar's first visit
to the Svear in Birka. |
|
± 832
|
The monastery of
Armagh in Ireland sacked by Vikings. |
|
± 834
|
Annual Viking attacks
on Dorestad in Frisia. |
|
± 834
|
Vikings at the mouth
of the Thames. |
|
± 840
|
Intensive Viking
activity in Ireland. |
|
± 840
|
Viking settlers
found the city of Dublin in Ireland. |
|
± 841
|
Lothar, emperor
of the Fraks, grants Walcheren, an island in the Rheine estuary, to Harald
Klak. |
|
± 843
|
In Ireland the harbours
of Dublin and Annagassan are fortified. |
|
± 844
|
Vikingjourney to
Spain and Portugal. |
|
± 844
|
From the Garona
via Tolosa (in the basque country) to the Asturian beaches, particularly
Gijón. Then to Farum brigantium. |
|
± 845
|
The Dane Ragnar
Lodbrok takes Paris. |
|
± 845
|
Vikings demolish
Hamburg. |
|
± 850
|
Ansgar with royal
permission builds churches in Schleswig and Ribe. |
|
± 851
|
The Norwegian Olov
the White King in Dublin untill ± 870. |
|
± 852
|
Ansgar's second
visit to Birka. |
|
± 854
|
Horik I of Denmark
dies in a civil war. |
|
± 857
|
Vikings conquers
Paris once more. |
|
± 859
|
Rurik monarch of
Kiev. |
|
± 859
|
Vinkings in the
Mediterranean. |
|
± 860
|
Rus Vikings attack
Constatinople (Istanbul). |
|
± 860
|
Attack of Russians
on Byzantium. |
|
± 861
|
Paris conquers a
thirt time by Vikings. |
|
± 864
|
Big flood in Friesland;
Stormflood. |
|
± 864
|
Horik II of Denmark
sends gifts to Pope Nicholas I. |
|
± 865
|
Attack by Ivar Lodbroksons,
Ubbe and Halvan on East-Anglia. |
|
± 865
|
York Conquereds. |
|
± 865
|
The sons of Ragnar
Lothbrok attack England. |
|
± 866
|
San martin de
Mondoñedo in the northen coast of Galicia. |
|
± 866
|
The Vikings conquer
York. |
|
± 870
|
The Norwegian Ivar
takes over the power of his brother Olav in Dublin. |
|
± 870
|
The colonization
of Iceland. |
|
± 871
|
Alfred the Great
becomes king of Wassex; the Danich advance is halted in England. |
|
± 871
|
The voyages of the
north Norwegain chieftain Ohthere to the White. |
|
± 872
|
Harald I gains control
of Norway. |
|
± 874
|
Norwegian emigrants
start to colonize Iceland. |
|
± 876
|
Sea and to Hedeby;
The Englishman Wulfstan's voyage in the Baltic. |
|
± 879
|
Rurik establisches
Kiev as the center of the Kievan Rus domains. |
|
± 881
|
Vikings at the Rijn
and in Lotharingen. |
|
± 881
|
Attack on Germany. |
|
± 885
|
Start of siege of
Paris. |
|
± 886
|
Alfred divides England
with the Danes under the Danelaw pact. |
|
± 890
|
The Olaf dynasty
in Denmark. The battle in Hafrsfjord and Harald Finehair's attempt to unite
Norway. |
|
± 891
|
Arnulf defeats a
Vikingarmy near by Leuven. |
|
±
901
|
Dublin Recaptured
by the Irish. |
|
± 911
|
The viking chief
Rollo is granted land by the frank and founds Normandy in France. |
|
± 930
|
Conclusion of Norwegian
immigration on Iceland. |
|
± 934
|
Institution of the
Althing on Iceland. |
|
± 934
|
Haithabu conquered
by King Heinrich I. |
|
± 934
|
Henry the Fowler,
German king, defeats the Danes. |
|
± 936
|
End of the Swedish
reign at haihabu. |
|
± 941
|
Byzantium fights
off a Rus Waraegische fleet attack. |
|
± 941
|
Santiago de Compostala.
battle of Frosnellos. |
|
± 948
|
Bishops are appointed
to Schleswig, Ribe and Århus. |
|
± 950
|
Hakon the Good,
king of Norway, attempts to convert Norway. |
|
± 958
|
Grom the Old, king
of Denmark, is buried in Jelling |
|
± 960
|
Harald Bluetooth
restores Danish influence in Norway. |
|
± 965
|
Harald Bluetooth
converts Denmark. |
|
± 966
|
Via the river Guadalquivir
to Cordoba (Andalusia). |
|
± 968
|
Refotification of
Danevirke by Harald Bluetooth. |
|
± 970
|
Attack of Otto II
on Haithabu and Denmark. |
|
± 970
|
Foundation of Sigtuna. |
|
± 974
|
Battle at the Friswallen
at Uppsala. |
|
± 974
|
Danes defeated by
emperor Otto II |
|
± 980
|
Victory of Erik
Sageräll. |
|
± 980
|
Begins a new Vikingcampaings
against England. |
|
± 980
|
Construction of
the Ravning Enge bridge and the Danish circular fortresses. |
|
± 981
|
Viking leader Erik
the Red discovers Geenland. |
|
± 983
|
Harald Bluetooth
reconquers the Danish borderland. |
|
± 985
|
Erik the Red settles
in Greenland. |
|
± 986
|
Viking ships sail
in Newfoundland waters. |
|
± 987
|
Death of Harald
Bluetooth and burial in Roskilde. |
|
± 987
|
Bishops consecrated
in Hamburg expelled from Denmark. |
|
± 991
|
Æthelred II
pays the first Danegeld randsom to stop Danich attacks on England. |
|
± 994
|
Hundered Ships of
Sven Gaffelbeard and Olav Tryggvason before Londen. |
|
± 994
|
Olaf Tryggvason
takes service with Æthelred the Unready. |
|
± 995
|
Olaf I conquers
Norway and proclaims it a Christian kingdom. |
|
±1000
|
The battle of Svold. |
|
±1000
|
The conversion of
Iceland. |
|
±1000
|
Voyages from Greenland
to Vinland (in America). |
|
±1000
|
Thjodhild's church
at Brettahild. |
|
±1000
|
Leif eriksson, son
of Eric the Red, explores the coast of North America. |
|
±1000
|
Cristianity reaches
Greenland and Iceland. |
|
±1002
|
Brain Boru defeats
the Norse and becames the King Ireland. |
|
±1002
|
Muss murder on danes
in Engeland. |
|
±1010
|
Viking explorer
Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a settement in North America |
|
±1013
|
The Danes conquer
England; Æthelred flees to Normandy. |
|
±1013
|
Conquest of England
by Sven Forkbeard. |
|
±1014
|
Death of Sven Gaffelbeard
in Gainsborough on 3 Feb; His elder son Harald succeeds to Denmark. |
|
±1015
|
Olaf Haraldsson,
future St Olaf, conquers Norway. |
|
±1015
|
Olof Skötkonung,
king of Sweden, has bishops for Sweden consecrated in Hamburg. |
|
±1015
|
The Vikings abandon
the Vinland settlement on the coast of North America. |
|
±1016
|
Olav II regains
Norway from the Danes. |
|
±1016
|
The Danes under
Knut Canute rule England. |
|
±1020
|
Vikings in South
Italy. |
|
±1022
|
Olaf Haraldsson,
with the support of the English bishop Grimkell, has a Christain code passed
at the Moster Thing. |
|
±1026
|
Knut the Great faces
the kings of Norway and Sweden and Ulf, his regent in Denmark, at the battle
of the Holy River. |
|
±1027
|
Murder of Earl Ulf
in Roskilde. |
|
±1027
|
The first stone
church in Scandinavia is built in Roskilde. |
|
±1028
|
Knut Canute, King
of England and denmark, conquers Norway. |
|
±1028
|
Olaf Haraldsson,
king of Norway, is expelled. |
|
±1030
|
Olaf Haraldsson
is killed in the Battle of Siklestad 29 july. |
|
±1031
|
Olaf Haraldsson,
Saint Olaf,is enshrined. |
|
±1035
|
Knut the Great dies
and succeeded in Denmark by Harthaknut in Norway by Magnus the Good. |
|
±1040
|
Ingvar's disastrous
expedition to the east. |
|
±1042
|
Edward the Confessor
rules England with support of the Danes. |
|
±1042
|
Magnus the Good
reunites denmark and Norway. |
|
±1042
|
Magnus defeats the
Slavs near Schleswig. |
|
±1047
|
Magnus the Good
is succeeded in Denmark by Sven Estridsen, in Norway by Harald Hardråde. |
|
±1050
|
The city of Oslo
in founded in Norway. |
|
±1050
|
A bishop from Hamburg
is appointed to Orkney. |
|
±1054
|
Earl Thorfinn of
orkney visits Rome. |
|
±1056
|
Creation of the
first bishopric of iceland, at Skálhott. |
|
±1060
|
Division of denmark
into 8 dioceses: Schleswig, Ribe, Århus, Viborg, Vendsyssel, Odense,
Roskilde and Lund; Sigtuna is made a bishopric. |
|
±1061
|
Vikings conquered
Sicily. |
|
±1066
|
Olaf Kyrre king
of Norway |
|
±1066
|
Harold godwinson
King of England defeats Harold Hardrada King of Norway at
the battle of Stamfort Bridge. |
|
±1066
|
William Duke of
Normandy defeats the Saxon King Harold at the battle of Hastings. |
|
±1072
|
Viklings conquered
Palermo. |
|
±1076
|
Sven Estridsen dies
and and is succeeded by five sons in turn. |
|
±1085
|
Final attempt to
conquer England for Denmark. |
|
±1085
|
The oldest known
diploma in Scandinavia: Great of land and immunities to St Lawrence at
Lunt, by Knut, king of denmark. |
|
±1086
|
Knut, king of denmark,
is killed in St Alban's, Odense. |
|
±1091
|
Gives Sicily to
the Pope. |
|
±1096
|
Erik Ejegod king
of Denmark. |
|
±1100
|
King Magnus Berefoot
asserts The Norwegain overlordship of the western Isles and conquers Dublin. |
|
±1100
|
Foundation of the
first monasteries in Norway: Selje, Nidarholm and Munkeliv near bergen. |
|
±1103
|
Lund in Skåis
made the metropolis of all Scandinavia. |
|
±1104
|
Niels king of Denmark. |
|
±1106
|
Hólar becomes
the second bishopric of Iceland. |
|
±1107
|
Crusade of Sigurd
Jorsalfar, king of Norway. |
|
±1120
|
The Florence-List
mentions the first diocesan division of Sweden, Finland occurs under the
name Findia. |
|
±1122
|
Ari Thorgilsson
composes Íslendingabók. |
|
±1125
|
Stavanger is made
a bishopric. |
|
±1125
|
A bishop for Greenland
is consecrated in Lund. |
|
±1130
|
Prolonged succession
disputes begin in Norway. |
|
±1131
|
The Danish pretender
Knut Lavard is murdered. |
|
±1133
|
The first Icelandic
monastery is founded on Thingeyrar. |
|
±1134
|
The battle of Fodevig. |
|
±1134
|
Niels, king of Denmark,
is killed in Schlewig. |
|
±1140
|
The bishopric of
Sigtuna is transferred to Gamla Uppsala. |
|
±1143
|
Cistercain monasteries
are founded in Scandinavia. |
|
±1146
|
Danish succession
disputed beteen Sven, Knut and Valdemar. |
|
±1147
|
Danish crusade
against the Slavs on Rügen. |
|
±1152
|
Cardinal Nicholas
Breakspear, papal legate, visits Norway and Sweden. |
|
±1152
|
Trondheim is elevated
to metropolitain status for Norwegain lands, Iceland and Greenland. |
|
±1155
|
Crusade of St Erik,
king of Sweden, and bishop Henrik to Finland. |
|
±1157
|
End of succession
wars in Denmark; Valdemar the Great sole king. |
|
±1160
|
Death of St Erik
Jedvardsson, king of Sweden. |
|
±1161
|
Karl Sverkersson
becomes king of Svear and Götar. |
|
±1163
|
Magnus Erlingsson
is crowned king of Norway, the first coronation in Scandinavia; a Norwegain
law of succwssion introduces sole kingship; Archbishop Øystein revises
the Christain code. |
|
±1164
|
Uppsala is made
archdiocese for Sweden. |
|
±1167
|
First mention of
Copenhagen. |
|
±1167
|
Karl Sverkersson
is killed. |
|
±1169
|
The Danes conquer
Rügen. |
|
±1170
|
Coronation of Knut
VI and the enshrinement of his grandfather Knut Lavard at Ringsted. |
|
±1171
|
The poe advises
the archbishop of Uppsala how convert Tavastia. |
|
±1171
|
Knut Eriksson king
of Svear and Götar. |
|
±1177
|
Eskil, archbishop
of Lund, retires to Clairvaux and is succeeded by Absalon. |
|
±1178
|
Rudulf, bishop of
Finland, is taken prisoner and killed in Curland. |
|
±1179
|
Brrth of the Icelandic
author Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241) |
|
±1179
|
In Norway Sverre
defeats Erling Skakke and his son Magnus. |
|
±1180
|
Start of conflict
between Monarchy, represented by Sverre, and Church. |
|
±1185
|
Knut IV, king of
Denmark, conquers Pomerania. |
|
±1187
|
Pagan pirates, probably
Estonians, ravage the Mälar area, kill the Swedish archbishop and
set Sigtuna on fire. |
|
±1188
|
Danes and Frisians
fit out 50 ships for participation in the third crusade and take part in
the siege of Acre. |
|
±1190
|
The archbishop of
Trondheim seeks refuge in Lund. |
|
±1191
|
Danish expedition
to Finland. |
|
±1191
|
Danish and Norwegain
joint participation in crusade to Jerusalem. |
|
±1194
|
Sverre, king of
Norway, is crowned and excommunicated. |
|
±1197
|
Danish crusade against
Estonia. |
|
±1198
|
Thorlákr
Thórhallsson, bishop of Skálholt (died 1193) is sanctified
by the Althing. |
| ±1202 |
King Sverre's "Speech
against the bishops"; Sverre dies and his successor seeks reconciliation
with the church. |
