Norse contact at L'Anse aux Meadows
1000* · Event
Norse settlement in Newfoundland; first verified European presence in the Americas; abandoned within a couple of decades.
On these timelines: Pre-Columbian Americas, Master
More from Pre-Columbian Americas
- Peopling of the Americas (14000 BCE)
- Maya civilisation (2000 BCE)
- Maize domesticated in Mesoamerica (7000 BCE)
- Olmec civilisation (1500 BCE)
- Teotihuacán at its peak (100)
- Inca expansion under Pachacuti (1438)
- Classic Maya civilization (250)
- Aztec Triple Alliance formed (1428)
Around 1000
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Holy Roman Empire founded (962)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- The Tale of Genji written (1008)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- William the Conqueror (1028)
- The Tale of Genji (1008)