| A.D. |
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| 787 |
First appearance of the Norse in Northumbria |
| 795 |
First plunderings of the Norse in Ireland |
| 795 |
Irish monks in Iceland |
| 822 |
Halfdan the Black, King of Norway (d. 860) |
| 832 |
The Norse appear in Kent |
| 847 |
First coming of the Danes to Ireland |
| 853 |
Olaf the White, King of the Norse in Dublin |
| 867 |
Ælla King of Northumbria |
| 871 |
Alfred the Great, King of England (d. 901) |
| 872 |
Harald Fairhair, King of Norway (d. 933) |
| 875 |
The Danes are subdued by Alfred, and Guthrum is baptized |
| 878 |
Harald Fairhair raids in the Orkneys and makes Ragnvald earl. During Harald’s reign Iceland is peopled from Norway |
| 890 |
Rolf Ganger, son of Ragnvald, Earl of More and Orkney, plunders in Normandy |
| 900 |
Torf-Einar in Orkney. Harald Fairhair’s second expedition to the West |
| 901 |
Edward the Elder, King of England (d. 925) |
| 902 |
The foreigners are expelled from Dublin |
| 917 |
Niall Glundubh (Black knee), King of Ireland, slain at battle of Kilmashog |
| 924 |
Edward the Elder is chosen as “Father and Lord” by the Scots, Northumbria, and Strathclyde |
| 925 |
Athelstan succeeds (d. 940) |
| 933 |
Eric Bloodaxe, King of Norway |
| 934 |
Hakon the Good returns to Norway and is crowned king |
| 935 |
Eric Bloodaxe leaves Norway and gets a kingdom in England |
| 937 |
Battle of Brunanburh |
| 939 |
Murtough of the Leather Cloaks makes a warlike circuit in Ireland |
| 941 |
Olaf Cuaran (of the Sandal) chosen King of Northumbria |
| 942 |
The Danes desert Dublin and flee across sea |
| 944 |
Olaf Cuaran expelled from Northumbria |
| 949 |
Olaf Cuaran returns; expelled a second time in 952 |
| 960 |
Battle of Stord, and death of King Hakon the Good |
| 963 |
Olaf Trygveson born in exile. Norway ruled by the sons of Eric Bloodaxe |
| 979 |
Ethelred the Unready, King of England |
| 985 |
Olaf Trygveson raids in the West and England. Sweyn Fork-beard becomes King of Denmark. |
| 988 |
He marries Gyda, a sister of Olaf Cuaran. He is baptised in the Scilly Isles |
| 993 |
Bambrough stormed |
| 994 |
Olaf Trygveson and Sweyn Fork-beard are driven back from London. Olaf promises never again to fight with England |
| 995 |
Earl Hakon slain; Olaf Trygveson becomes king of Norway |
| 1000 |
He dies at battle of Svold |
| 1002 |
Massacre of the Danes on St Brice’s Day |
| 1004 |
Sweyn Fork-beard burns Norwich |
| 1009–10 |
England ravaged by the Danes |
| 1010 |
Siege of London and battle of Hringmara Heath |
| 1013 |
Sweyn Fork-beard, King of England (d. 1014) |
| 1014 |
Battle of Clontarf in Dublin. Ethelred II. goes to Normandy |
| 1015 |
Reign of St Olaf in Norway (d. 1030) |
| 1016 |
Death of Ethelred II. Reign of Edmund Ironside. Battle of Assandun and division of England between Edmund and Canute. |
| 1017 |
Canute sole King of England |
| 1028 |
Canute subjugates Norway |
| 1030 |
Battle of Stiklestad and death of St Olaf |
| 1030 |
Sweyn, Canute’s son, King of Norway (d. 1035) |
| 1035 |
Magnus the Good, King of Norway (d. 1047) |
| 1037 |
Harald, Canute’s son, King of England |
| 1040 |
Hardacanute, King of England (d. 1042) |
| 1043 |
Edward the Confessor, King of England |
| 1065 |
Harold, Godwin’s son, consecrated king |
| 1066 |
Battle of Stamford Bridge |
| 1066 |
Battle of Hastings |
