Construction of the Danevirke begins

Founding of trading town of Birka

Sacking of Lindisfarne Monastery

Sacking of Raithlin Island Monastery

Hedeby centre of Baltic trade

Elder Futhark replaced by 16-Rune Futhark

Floki Vilgerdason of Rogaland discovers Iceland

Oseberg ship burial

First Rus Vikings arrive at Miklagard (Constantinople)

Viking base camp established at Woodstown, Waterford

Dublin founded by Turgeis

Raid on Nantes

Raid on Moorish Seville

Ragnar Lothbrok raids Paris

Hastein enters Mediterannean & raids Algecira & Morocco

Rurik becomes ruler of Novgorod

Hastein raids Luna thinking it Rome

First raid on Constantinople

Jorvik founded

"Great Heathen Host" in Britain led by brothers Halfdan, Ivar & Ubbi

King Harald Fairhair King of Norway

Guthrum shipwrecked in Unst, Shetland but escapes

"Year of Battles"

Alfred the Great King of Wessex

Guthrum arrives in England & leads "Great Summer Army"

Settlement of Iceland begins

Alfred defeats Guthrum at Battle of Eddington

Harald Harfagra unifies Norway

Rurik establishes Kiev

Siege of Paris

Birth of Erik Bloodaxe

Murder of Godfrid, Duke of Frisia

Alfred creates the Danelaw

Hedeby at its height as trading centre

Gokstad ship burial

Rollo (Hrolf) granted lands by the Franks & founds Normandy

Reginald King of Waterford, captures York

Ulfljotr brings Gulathing law to Iceland

Ibn Fadlan, Arab ambassador, writes account of ship cremation

Death of Harald Fairhair

Erik Bloodaxe, King of Norway

First Althing at Thingvellir

Harold Bluetooth, King of Denmark

Birth of Olav Trygvasson "Crowbone"

Erik the Red discovers Greenland

Svein Forkbeard King of Denmark

Battle of Maldon - Trygvasson V. Brythnoth

Olav Trygvasson King of Norway

Leif Erikson founds L'Anse Aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland (Vinland)

Iceland officially converts to Christianity

Olav Trygvasson killed by Svein Forkbeard & King Olaf of Sweden

Ethnic cleansing of Danes by Aethelred Unraed

Brian Boru King of Ireland

Svein Forkbeard defeats Aethelred Unraed

Death of Svein Forkbeard

Brian Boru defeats Jarl Sigurd of Orkney at Battle of Clontarf - both slain

Vinland settlement abandoned

Cnut the Great, son of Svein Forkbeard, conquers England

Cnut , King of England & Denmark, conquors Norway

City of Oslo founded

William the Conqueror King of England

Hedeby sacked by Polabian Slavs - ceases as trading centre

King Harald Hardrada of Norway killed at Battle of Stamford Bridge

King Harold Godwinesson of England killed at Battle of Hastings

Adam of Bremen writes Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum

Battle of Foteviken

1170 - Invasion by Normans marks end of Viking Age

Saxo Grammaticus writes Gesta Danorum

Ibn Dihya writes account of Al-Ghazal's embassy to Ireland

Orkneyinga Saga written by Icelandic author

Snorri Sturluson writes Prose Edda

Snorri Sturluson writes Heimskringla

Poems of Poetic Edda collected

Battle of Largs

Final reference to Vikings in Irish history in court case held at Waterford