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860 |
Vikings attack Constantinople |
862 |
Vikings found Novgorod in Russia |
874 |
Vikings settle Iceland |
900 |
Vikings raid the Mediterranean coasts |
911 |
Vikings under Rollo are settled in Normandy |
981 |
Erik the Red discovers Greenland |
986 |
Vikings land in Canada |
965 |
Harald Bluetooth (King Harold I) converts the Danes to Christianity |
1000 |
Greenland and Iceland are converted to Christianity by the Vikings |
1001 |
Leif Eriksson reaches the American coast |
1016 |
The Danish king Canute (Knut) II defeats the Wessex King Edmund and becomes King of Denmark and England |
1028 |
Danish Canute conquers Norway |
1035 |
King Canute dies and the heir to Denmark and England is Hardacnut |
1042 |
Hardacnut dies suddenly and Edward the Confessor regains the throne of England |
1050 |
Vikings found the city of Oslo in Norway which is established as a major trade center. |
1350 |
The Black Death ( Bubonic plague) the "Svartedauen" sweeps Norway and Scandinavia killing one third of the inhabitants |
1397 |
Union of Kalmar unites Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single monarch although Denmark is the dominant power |
1536 |
Danish becomes the written language of Norway |
1729 |
Greenland becomes a Danish province |
1814 |
The peace treaty of Kiel and Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden. The Norwegian constitution was written |
1905 |
The union with Sweden disintegrates and Norway becomes an independent kingdom. The Danish prince Karl becomes King Haakon VII of Norway |
1914 |
| 1914-1918: World War I- Norway remains neutral |
1939 |
| 1939 - 1945 1939-1945 World War 2 |
1940 |
| 9th April: Germany occupies Norway |
1945 |
| August 1945: The United States drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
1945 |
| Germany surrenders to the Allies and the Nazi-occupation ends in Norway |
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