Timeline: The Viking Age | Timetoast

Jan 1, 789

Vikings Begin Their Attacks On England

Around this time, the Vikings began their raid on England.
Jan 1, 789

Vikings begin their attacks on England.
Jan 1, 800

The Oseberg Viking Longship was buried

In this year, the famous Oseberg Longship by the vikings was buried.
Jan 1, 800

The Viking Oseberg Longship was Buried
Jan 1, 840

Viking settlers found the city of Dublin in Ireland.
Jan 1, 844

A Viking raid on Seville is repulsed.
Jan 1, 860

Rus Vikings attack Constantinople (Istanbul).
Jan 1, 862

Novgorod in Russia is founded by the Rus Viking
Jan 1, 866

Danish Vikings establish a kingdom in York, England.
Jan 1, 871

Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex,
Jan 1, 872

Harald I gains control of Norway.
Jan 1, 879

Rurik establishes Kiev as the center of the Kievan Rus' domains.
Jan 1, 886

Alfred divides England with the Danes under the Danelaw pact.
Jan 1, 900

The Vikings raid along the Mediterranean coast.
Jan 1, 911

The Viking chief Rollo is granted land
Jan 1, 941

Rus Vikings attack Constantinople (Istanbul).
Jan 1, 981

Viking leader Erik the Red discovers Greenland.
Jan 1, 986

Viking ships sail in Newfoundland waters.
Jan 1, 991

Æthelred II pays the first Danegeld ransom to stop Danish attacks on England.
Jan 1, 995

Olav I conquers Norway and proclaims it a Christian kingdom.
Jan 1, 1000

Christianity reaches Greenland and Iceland.
Jan 1, 1000

Olav I dies; Norway is ruled by the Danes.