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845 |
| The French King pays a ransom to prevent the sacking of Paris |
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 |
1050 |
| Vikings found the city of Oslo in Norway which is established as a major trade center. |
1350 |
| The Bubonic Plague (the Black Death) "Svartedauen" sweeps Sweden and Scandinavia killing one third of the inhabitants |
1397 |
| Union of Kalmar unites Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single monarch. Denmark is the dominant power |
1523 |
| King Gustav I of Sweden re-establishes separation of the Swedish Crown from the union. The Vasa Dynasty lasts from 1523 - 1654 |
1611 |
| 1611-1718 Sweden becomes a great power |
1654 |
| 1654 - 1720 Wittelsbach Dynasty (Pfalzisks) |
1632 |
| Queen Christina rules Sweden from 1632 - 1654 |
1720 |
| 1720 - 1751 Brabant Dynasty (Hessen) |
1751 |
| 1751 - 1818 Holsten-Gottorp Dynasty |
1814 |
| Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden |
1818 |
| 1818 - Present Day: The Bernadotte Swedish Dynasty |
1901 |
| Alfred Nobel, the Swedish chemist and industrialist, initiates the Nobel prize awards |
1905 |
| The union with Sweden disintegrates and Norway becomes an independent kingdom |
1914 |
| 1914-1918: World War I |
1939 |
| 1939 - 1945 World War 2 |
1939 |
| Sweden declares its neutrality - Sweden remains neutral but rejects a request from Germany to use its territory as a transit route for German troops |
1940 |
| Sweden is forced to allow German troops to march through Sweden to Norway |
1945 |
| August 1945: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
1945 |
| Germany surrenders to the Allies. |
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