The Viking Timeline
- 789 - Vikings begin their attacks on England.
- 800 - The Oseberg Viking longship is buried about this time
- 840 - Viking settlers found the city of Dublin in Ireland.
- 844 - A Viking raid on Seville is repulsed.
- 860 - Rus Vikings attack Constantinople (Istanbul).
- 862 - Novgorod in Russia is founded by the Rus Viking, Ulrich.
- 866 - Danish Vikings establish a kingdom in York, England.
- 871 - Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex; the Danish advance is
halted in England.
- 872 - Harald I gains control of Norway.
- 879 - Rurik establishes Kiev as the center of the Kievan Rus'
domains.
- 886 - Alfred divides England with the Danes under the Danelaw pact.
- 900 - The Vikings raid along the Mediterranean coast.
- 911 - The Viking chief Rollo is granted land by the Franks and founds
Normandy in France.
- 941 - Rus Vikings attack Constantinople (Istanbul).
- 981 - Viking leader Erik the Red discovers Greenland.
- 986 - Viking ships sail in Newfoundland waters.
- 991 - Æthelred II pays the first Danegeld ransom to stop Danish attacks
on England.
- 995 - Olav I conquers Norway and proclaims it a Christian kingdom.
- 1000 - Christianity reaches Greenland and Iceland.
- 1000 - Leif Eriksson, son of Erik the Red, explores the coast of North
America.
- 1000 - Olav I dies; Norway is ruled by the Danes.
- 1002 - Brian Boru defeats the Norse and becomes the king of
Ireland.
- 1010 - Viking explorer Thorfinn Karlsefni attempts to found a
settlement in North America.
- 1013 - The Danes conquer England; Æthelred flees to Normandy.
- 1015 - 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.
- 1028 - Knut (Canute), king of England and Denmark, conquers Norway.
- 1042 - Edward the Confessor rules England with the support of the
Danes.
- 1050 - The city of Oslo is founded in Norway.
- 1066 - Harold Godwinson king of England defeats Harald Hardrada king of
Norway at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
- 1066 - William duke of Normandy defeats the Saxon king Harold at the
Battle of Hastings.