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PostSubject: Viking Timeline   Viking Timeline EmptyThu Jul 31, 2008 8:48 am

789 - The first Viking attack on England. (The first of many attempts to help out the native Brits, they should thank God that we came and made them what they are today)
793 - Vikings attack the monastery at Lindisfarne.
797 - Vikings attacks Lambay, Ireland.
798 - Vikings attacks Isle of Man
798 - Vikings attacks on France (before 800) begins (Seems as if the Vikings knew that the French were cowards 1200 years ago)
820 - Vikings attacks Flanders and approaches the moth of river Seine. (Hitting Holland too)
834 - Vikings approaches the river Thames, England.
839 - Turgeis (Torgisl) and a big Viking fleet conquers Ireland and settles permanently.
841 - Vikings under the leadership of Turgeis founds Dublin, Ireland (Ireland would be a wasteland without all the Viking settlements)
845 - Viking chieftain Ragnar Lodbrok attacks Paris along a big fleet. (Good work Ragnar!)
853 - Olaf the White conquers Ireland with a massive Viking fleet (More Vikings settling permanently abroad)
866 - Vikings establish the kingdom of York, England.
871 - Olaf the White returns to Norway, his brother Ivarr becomes ruler of Ireland
885 - Harald (Luva) Fairhair finally unites Norway as one kingdom, first in Scandinavia.
911 - The Viking chieftain Rollo is granted land by the Frankish king and founds the Duchy of Normandy.
917 - Vikings defeats Dublin by military power and regains the throne.
928 - Kings Æ thelstan and Harald Fairhair joins in a treaty to gain control of the Norse Vikings
930 - The first democracy (Alltinget) of the world is founded at Thingvellir, Iceland, by Vikings (More evidence of Viking superiority....we started democracy 1000 years ago....the Althing in Iceland still exists and Iceland is the world's oldest democracy. Oh by the way, Iceland is 100% Norwegian.)
947 - Eirik Blood-axe, son of Fairhair, gains control of York. (Eirik Bloodaxe....could there be a better name for a Viking...I think not)
974 - Emperor Otto II of Germany attacks Denmark, but fails because of Norwegian help. (Even though we don't like the Danes, you can't let other Vikings be ruled by anyone but other Vikings)
976 - Angelsey (coast of Wales) is included to the Norse kingdom of Man.
980 - Vikings starts regular attacks to gain control of England.
984 - Viking leader Erik the Red discovers Greenland and starts settling.
986 - Viking ships sails in Newfoundland waters (And yet the weak and inferior Italians are given credit for " discovering " the Americas. We came, We saw and then we went home to Iceland)
1000 - Leif Eriksson, son of Erik the Red, explores the coast of North America.
1009 - Viking chieftain Olaf Haraldsson (St. Olav) attacks London by river and destroys London Bridge
1015 - Vikings abandon the Vinland settlements at the coast of North America.
1016 - Danes, under Canute the Great, gains full control over England.
1018 - The coronation of Canute the Great, as King of England. (And yet the British pretend that somehow they are not descendants of the Norwegians and Danes)
1035 - Canute the Great dies, Magnus, son of St Olaf, expels the Danes from Norway and regains the kingdom
1042 - Magnus, king of Norway, becomes king of Denmark.
1045 - Magnus grants Harald Hardraada half of Norway, as a co-king
1049 - Hardraada founds Oslo, Norway.
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