The Last Viking: Warrior of the New Rome (TRIH ep 553, part 2)
1034 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the career of Harald Hardrada, contrasting colourful Icelandic saga accounts with Byzantine and other contemporary sources. They follow Harald’s service in the Varangian Guard (Aegean anti-piracy actions, campaigns in Armenia and Sicily), his reputed exploits in Jerusalem and his rise in Constantinople under Emperor Michael IV.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1034
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- East–West Schism (1054)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- Battle of Manzikert (1071)
- William the Conqueror (1028)
- Investiture Controversy (1076)