845-936

By Fiona Chen

  • First siege of Constantinople by the Rus

  • Rurik gains control of Novgorod

  • Ibgorlfur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland, setting in Reykjavik

  • Oleg of Novorod takes kiev and makes it his capital

  • Charle the Fat becomes king of Western Francia, thus for the last time reuniting the Frankish kingdom

  • The Viking besiege Paris