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| 793 | Norse raid and plunder monastary on isle of Lindisfarne. |
| 794 | Norse raid Jarrow in Northumbria. |
| 795 | First Norse raids on Scotland and Ireland. |
| 799 | Norse raid Aquitaine. 105 Norsemen killed by locals after their ships are blown off-course in northern Aquitaine. |
| 800 | Frankish King Charles the Great (Charlemagne) organizes defenses against Norse raids. |
| 808 | King Godfred King of Denmark sacks Slavic town of Reric; merchants moved to Hedeby. King Godfred of Denmark repairs and extends the Danevirke against possible Frankish aggression. |
| 809 | Papal legate captured by Norsemen in the North Sea while en route to Northumbria. |
| 810 | King Godfred of Denmark raids Frisia, is later killed. |
| 820 | Norse fleet is twice driven off by Franks before penetrating Aquitaine. |
| 823-824 | Archbishop Ebo of Reims undertakes missionary work in Denmark. |
| ~825 | Danes begin minting coinage at Hedeby. Irish monks are driven out of the Faeroe Islands. |
| 829-830 | Anagar undertakes missionary work in Svearland (Sweden), at Birka. |
| 832 | Norse raid Armagh three times in a single month. |
| 834-837 | Norse raid Dorestad every year. |
| 837 | Norse raid Frankish fort at Walcheren and slay or capture most of the Emperor's closest advisors. |
| 839 | Svear (Swedes) reach Constantiople. |
| 839-840 | Norse raiders winter in Ireland for the first time. |
| 840 | Armagh (center of the Irish church) is sacked three times. |
| 841 | Town of Dublin established by Norse. King Lothar grants province of Walcheren to Harald Klak. |
| 842 | Norse winter in France for the first time. |
| 843 | Norse attack Nantes. |
| 843-885 | Frisia under intermittent Danish rule. |
| 844 | Norse raid Spain for the first time, are driven off with heavy losses. King Raedwulf of Northumbria killed by Norsemen. Norsemen sack Lisbon. Norsemen sack Seville, but are defeated five weeks later by the Muslims and retreat. |
| 845 | Norse sack Hamburg and Paris; Franks pay first weregeld to Norse raiders. Turgeis is captured by King Mael Seachlainn of Meath and drowned in Lough Owel. |
| 847 | King Mael Seachlainn of Meath defeats Norse army south of Slane. |
| 849 | Irish sack Dublin. |
| 850 | Anagar builds first Christian churches at Ribe and Hedeby. Norse raiders winter in England for the first time. Norsemen defeated by Anglo-Saxons in naval battle off the coast of Sandwich. King Lothar grants province of Frisia to Roric. |
| 851 | Danes take Dublin. |
| 852-854 | Anagar undertakes missionary work in Svearland (Sweden). |
| 853 | Norse Kingdom of Dublin founded as Olaf and Ivar (from Norway) drive the Danes from the town. |
| 854 | Danish King Horik killed in civil war. Muslims capture two Norse ships off the coast of Cordoba. |
| 858 | Charles the Bald beseiges Vikings on the isle of Oissel, but the seige is lifted when his kingdom is invaded by his brother King Lothar. |
| 859 | Norsemen raid Algericas, burn mosque. |
| 859-860 | Vikings winter in the Camargue (southern France). |
| 859-862 | Norse raid Mediterranean lands, led by Bjorn Ironsides and Hastein. |
| 860 | Gardar the Swede mounts exploration of Iceland. Rus attack Constantinople. Hastein and Bjorn attack the Loire. Norsemen sack Luna, Italy. King Charles the Bald hires Weland to fight Norsemen on his behalf; he beseiges Norse forces on the Isle of Oissel-- they pay 6,000 pounds of silver as ransom; Weland is finally defeated by Anglo-Saxons at battle of Winchester. Gardar sights Iceland for the first time. |
| 861 | Muslim fleet defeats Norse fleet outside the Straights of Gibraltar while en route home. |
| 862 | Frankish King Charles (the Bald) fortifies rivers against Norse raiders. Rurik becomes King of Novgorod. Kiev is captured by Askold and Dir. |
| 864 | Count of Auvergne defeated and slain at the battle of Clermont. Rus sack Abasgun. |
| 865 | Great Army of the Danes invades England; East Anglia obtains peace by supplying horses to the Danes. |
| 866 | Norsemen rout Frankish army on the Seine River; King Charles the Bald pays them 4,000 pounds of silver to leave; they disperse to England and Frisia. Danes capture York. |
| 867 | Northumbrians attempt to recapture York, but are driven off. Mercians and West Saxons beseige the Danish camp at Nottingham, but the seige fails. |
| 869 | King Edmund of East Anglia is killed and slain at the battle of Hoxne. Norse under the command of Kjarval defeat Irish fleet off the Hebrides. |
| 870 | Initial Norse settlement of Iceland begins; a handful of Irish monks are driven out. Earldom of Orkney established. Danes capture East Anglia. Norse from Dublin destroy the capital of Strathclyde. |
| 871 | Alfred becomes King of Wessex. |
| 873 | King Charles of the Franks drives Norsemen from Angers. Danish Great Army captures Repton. |
| 874 | Danish Great Army divdes into two sections. |
| 874-914 | "Forty Years Rest" in Ireland. |
| 875 | Halfdan driven from Dublin by Norweigans. |
| 876 | Danish settlement of England begins. Halfdan sets up the Norse Kingdom of York. |
| 877 | Halfdan of York killed by Norweigans while trying to conquer Dublin. |
| 878 | King Alfred of Wessex defeats the Danes under Guthrum at the battle of Eddingon; the Danes agree to withdraw from Wessex. The Treaty of Wedmore establishes the Danelaw. |
| 882 | Novgorod and Kiev are united under Oleg. Franks defeated at the battle of Ascloha. |
| 884 | Forces under Sigfrid are paid 12,000 lbs. of silver to leave Amiens. |
| 885 | Harald Finehair wins battle of Hafrsfjord; begins unification of Norway. Norse begin Siege of Paris. Norse attack on Rochester is driven off by King Alfred of Wessex. Sigfrid's fleet arrives at the Seine. |
| 886 | King Alfred of Wessex recaptures London from the Danes. Siege of Paris ends as King Charles of the Franks allows them to pass upriver and ravage the countryside. |
| 888 | King Odo of the Franks defeats the Norse at the battle of Montfaucon. Norse at Chezy are paid Danegeld and begin to retreat from the Seine valley. |
| 891 | Arnulf defeats Norse at battle of the Dyle. |
| 893 | Norse unsuccessfully beseige Pilton and Exeter. Danish camp at Buttington is beseiged; Danes break out and retreat to East Anglia. Chester is captured by the Danes, who must move into Wales to replace their destroyed food stores. |
| 895 | Rollo arrives in Normandy. |
| 896 | Danish army in Mercia and Wessex disperses to East Anglia and Frankia. |
| 899 | King Alfred of Wessex dies. |
| ~900 | Harald Finehair completes unification of most of Norway. Norse begin settlement of northwest England. |
| 902 | Norse driven out of Dublin. West Saxons begin attack against the Danelaw. |
| 907 | Constantinople attacked by the Rus under Prince Oleg of Kiev. |
| 910 | 16 Rus ships attack and pillage the Persian coast along the Caspian Sea. |
| 911 | Rollo founds Duchy of Normandy. Rollo unsuccessfully beseiges Chartres. Rus and Byzantium sign treaty. |
| 912-913 | Rus raiders active in Caspian Sea. |
| 913 | Rus fleet is ambushed and destroyed by Khazars at the battle of Itil. |
| 914 | Norse conquer Brittany. |
| 917 | Norse recapture Dublin. Danish defeated at Tempsford; king and garrison are slain. Danes unsuccessfully attack Towcester and Wiggingamere. Aethelfaed King of Mercia captures Derby from the Danes. |
| 918 | Ragnold defeats Northumbrians and Scots at the battle of Corbridge. |
| 919 | Rognold captures York. High King of Tara and twelve lesser kings are killed trying to drive the Norse from Dublin. Nantes made capital of Norse lands in Brittany. |
| 922 | Arab merchant Ibn Fadlan meets Rus slave traders. |
| 924 | Norse from Dublin attack Norse at Limerick, but are defeated. |
| 927 | King Athelstan of Wessex captures York, driving out Guthfrith. King Athelstan is recognized as supreme by Scots, Stathyclyde Britons, and Northumbrians. |
| 930 | Alþing established in Iceland. First sighting of Greenland by Gunnborn. |
| 934 | German King Heinrich (the Fowler) defeats Danes. |
| 936 | Duke Alan Barbertorte of Brittany invades Brittany to expel the Norse invaders; captures a party of Norsemen at a wedding at Dol and kills them; defeats Norse at the battle of Peran. |
| 937 | Norse-Scottish army under Olaf Guthfrithsson defeated by English under King Athelstan of Wessex at the battle of Brunanburh. King Olaf Sihtricsson of Dublin destroys fleet belonging to Norse of Limerick at Lake Ree. Norse are expelled from Brittany. |
| 939 | Olaf Guthfrithsson recaptures Kingdom of York. |
| 940 | King Edmund of Wessex cedes Five Boroughs to Olaf. |
| 941 | Rus unsuccessfully attack Constantinople under Igor and make treaty. King Muirchertach of northern Ui Néill, attacks the Hebrides in reprisal for Norse raids. |
| 942 | King Edmund of Wessex retakes the Five Boroughs. Norse settlers in Normandy begin pagan revival. |
| 943 | Rus capture Barda from Muslims, but retreat after an epidemic breaks out. |
| 944 | English recapture Kingdom of York. |
| 948 | Bishoprics established at Ribe, Hedeby, and Arhus. Erik Bloodaxe captures Kingdom of York, becomes King. |
| 954 | West Saxons conquer the Danelaw. Erik Bloodaxe killed at the battle of Stainmore. Final end of the Norse Kingdom of York. |
| 958 | Gorm the Old dies. |
| 960 | Danish control over Norway reestablished by Harald Bluetooth. Scots attempt to recapture Caithness, but are defeated. |
| 964-971 | Svyatoslav wars with Bulgars, Khazars, and Byzantines. |
| ~965 | Danes converted to Christianity by Harald Bluetooth. |
| 968 | Danevirk fortified against German aggression. King Mathghamain of Dal Cais conquers Limerick. |
| 969 | Norse recapture Limerick. |
| ~970 | Town of Sigtuna founded. |
| 974-981 | Germans occupy Hedeby. |
| 980 | Norse raids on England begin again. Varangian Guard formed at Constantinople. Dublin pays tribute to King Máel Sechnaill of Meath. |
| 983 | Erik the Red makes first voyage to Greenland. |
| 985 | First sighting of Vinland (North America) by Bjarni Herjolfsson. |
| 986 | Beginning of the settlement of Greenland by Erik the Red. |
| 988 | Prince Vladimir of Kiev converts to Christianity. Bishopric established at Odense. |
| 989 | Dublin pays tribute to King Máel Sechnaill of Meath. |
| 991 | Olaf Tryggvason defeats English at the battle of Maldon. Norse defeat ealdorman Byrhtnoth in East Anglica. |
| 993 | Danes attack London, but are driven off with heavy losses. |
| 994 | Olaf and Svein receive 16,000 lbs. of silver as Danegeld. King Æthelræd of England baptises Olaf. |
| 995 | Norway united under Olaf Tryggvason. Olaf Skötkonung first King of both Götar and Svear. Dublin pays tribute to King Máel Sechnaill of Meath. |
| 997 | Danes attack southern Wales and western Wessex. |
| 998-999 | Danes set up base on the Isle of Wight, begin raiding Sussex and Hampshire. |
| 999 | Dublin pays tribute to King Brian Boru of Munster. |
| 1000 | Iceland converts to Christianity. First explorations of Vinland begin under Leif Eriksson. King Æthelræd of England attacks the Isle of Man in reprisal for Norse raids. |
| 1001 | Danes attack southern Wessex, defeating the Saxons at Pinhoe and Dean. |
| 1002 | Svein Forkbeard attacks England from Normandy. |
| 1007 | Svein Forkbeard defeats Saxons at the battle of East Kennet, continues his march to the sea. |
| 1009 | English fleet divided by dissention, Danes land at Sandwich unopposed. Danes under Thorkell raids Hampshire, Sussex, and Berkshire. |
| 1010 | Danes under Thorkell raid East Anglia and Mercia. |
| 1013 | Norse army fights under King Richard II of England against the Count of Chartres. Svein Forkbeard conquers Northumbria, Winchester, London, the Five Burroughs, and the West Country. King Æthelræd of England flees to Normandy. |
| 1014 | Leinster and Norse army is defeated by King Brian Boru of Munster at the battle of Contarf; Jarl Sigurd and King Brodir of Man are killed. Svein Forkbeard dies, and King Æthelræd of England returns. Last Norse attack on Brittany. |
| 1015 | Norway conquered by Olaf Haraldsson. |
| 1016 | Danes attack London, but are driven off. |
| 1016-1035 | Cnut is King of England. |
| 1030 | Olaf Haraldsson killed at the battle of Stiklestad. Jarl Thorfin of Orkney gains control over most of northern Scotland at the battle of Tarbet Ness. |
| 1035 | Scots attempt to retake northern Scotland, but are defeated by Jarl Thorfin. |
| 1041 | Ingvar the Widefarer travels in Serkland, attempts to re-open trade routes; he is killed somewhere in central Asia. |
| 1042 | Danish rule ends in England. |
| 1043 | Wends defeated by Magnus the Good at the battle of Lyrskov Heath. |
| 1045 | Last attack on Constantinople by the Rus. |
| 1047-1067 | War between Harald Hardrada of Norway and Svein Estrithson of Denmark. |
| ~1050 | Bishopric established in Orkney. |
| 1066 | Harald Hardrada killed at the battle of Stamford Bridge. William the Conquerer wins the battle of Hastings. |
| 1069 | Svein Estrithson invades England. |
| 1071 | Norman Kingdom of Sicily established. |
| 1075 | Last Danish invasion of England; Danes sack York. |
| 1079 | Godred Crovan unites the Isle of Man and the Hebrides at the battle of Skyhill. |
| 1085 | First grant of land to Christian church in Scandinavia. Cnut IV abandons planned invasion of England. |
| 1095 | King Malcolm Canmore of Scotland recognizes Norweigan control over the Hebrides. |
| 1098 | King Magnus Barelegs of Norway takes over the Kingdom of Man and the Hebredies. |
| 1104 | King Magnus Barelegs of Norway killed while raiding Ulster. |