Viking Time Line
400 A.D.
- Scania settled by the Danes (c. 450 A.D.)
500 A.D.
- Danes settle Jutland (c. 500 A.D.)
- Danish king, Cochilaicus, raids western Europe (515 A.D.)
- Angles and Jutes settle western Europe (515 A.D.)
600 A.D.
- emergence of Viking Sweden (c. 600 A.D.)
700 A.D.
- Old Norse comes into use (c. 700 A.D.)
- first Viking raids on the east coast of England (793-795 A.D.)
- monastery of Lindisfarne sacked by Vikings (793 A.D.)
- first Viking raids into the Frankish kingdom (799 A.D.)
800 A.D.
- Northmen invade Germany ( 800 A.D. )
- Vikings control Ireland ( 802 A.D. )
- Viking raids into Frisia begin (810 A.D.)
- Folke Vilgerdsson of Rogaland reaches Iceland (814 A.D.)
- Norwegian Vikings reach Iceland (825 A.D.)
- Danish vikings begin a series of attacks on England (835 A.D.)
- founding of Dyflinn (Dublin) by Thorgisl (839 A.D.)
- Viking attacks on the Carolingian empire (840 A.D.)
- Vikings settlers found the city of Dublin (840 A.D.)
- Vikings overrun Frisia (845-891 A.D.)
- Ulrich founds Novgorod in Russia (862 A.D.)
- Harald I controls Norway (872 A.D.)
- Danes defeated at Edington by Alfred, king of Wessex (878 A.D.)
- Kiev becomes the capital of the Rus state (882 A.D.)
- Danish Vikings siege Paris (885-886 A.D.)
- viking control in northern England established under the Danelaw (886 A.D.)
900 A.D.
- Oleg the Wise, the Swedish ruler of Kiev, bribed into not attacking Constantinople (907 A.D.)
- Treaty of St.-Clair-sur-Epte between the viking leader, Rollo, and Charles the Simple, king of the Franks,
results in the creation of Neustria (Normandy) (911 A.D.)
- King Edward of England defeats the Danes at York (927 A.D.)
- Althing begins in Iceland (930 A.D.)
- Jutland conquered by King Gorm the Old of Hedeby (935-945 A.D.)
- Rus vikings attack Constantinople (941 A.D.)
- Baptism of Harald Bluetooth (966 A.D.)
- Erik the Red banished from Iceland (982 A.D.)
- Erik the Red discovers Greenland (985 A.D.)
- Sven Forkbeard Christianizes Denmark (985 A.D.)
- discovery of Vinland by Leif Eriksson (c. 992 A.D.)
- Olav I conquers Norway and converts it to Christianity (995 A.D.)
1000 A.D.
- Olav I dies and Norway falls under Danish rule (1000 A.D.)
- Vikings expelled from Ireland by King Brian Boru (1000 A.D.)
- King Ethelred of England orders the death of all Danes in England (1002 A.D.)
- Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to colonize North America (1010 A.D.)
- Sven Forkbeard, king of Denamark, invades England (1013 A.D.)
- Olav II regains control of Norway (1016 A.D.)
- Knut the Great conquers Wessex establishing rule over all of England (1019 A.D.)
- Ingvar the Great Voyager dies (1041 A.D.)
- Byzantine rule in lower Italy halted by the Normans (1059 A.D.)
- Harold Godwinson, king of England, defeats the Norwegian king, Harald Hardrada, at Stamford Bridge (1066 A.D.)
- extinction of the Norse colony in Greenland (c. 1500 A.D.)