Definition:
This Viking timeline is a part of the About.com Guide to the Viking Age.
- 793: Norwegians attack Lindisfarne monastery, England
- 795: Norwegians run assaults on monasteries in Scotland and Ireland
- 799: St. Philibert Monastery (France) sacked
- 800: Norwegians settle Faroe Islands
- 810: Danes under King Godfred attack Frisia
- 814: Charlemagne dies
- 834: Danes attack Dorestad, now in the Netherlands
- 841: Norwegians over winter in Ireland
- 850: Longphorts established in Ireland
- 850: Danes spend first winter in England
- 852: Danes spend first winter in Frankia
- 853: Norwegian Olaf the White established as king at Dublin
- 865: Danish Great Army arrives in East Anglia
- 866: Norwegian Harald Finehair subjugates Scottish Isles
- 870: Danes rule over one half of England
- 880s: Norwegian Sigurd the Mighty moves into the Scottish mainland
- 873: Ingolf Arnason founds Reykjavik, Iceland
- 902: Vikings expelled from Ireland
- 917: Vikings retake Dublin
- 930-980: First Norse invaders in England become established as settlers
- 954: Eirik Bloodaxe dies and Vikings lose control of York
- 959: Danelaw established
- 980-1050: Newly established Norwegian and Danish kings launch attacks on England
- 985: Norse farmers led by Erik the Red settle Greenland
- 1000: Leif Erikson finds North America
- 1014: Vikings defeated at Clontarf by Brian Boru
- 1016: Danish King Cnut named king of England, Denmark and Norway
- 1035: Cnut dies
- 1066: Norman Harald Hardrada dies at Stamford Bridge
This glossary entry is a part of the About.com Guide to the Viking Age and part of the Dictionary of Archaeology.
See the Viking Age Bibliography for sources.
