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The Viking Journey

± 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
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