Harald Bluetooth converts Denmark
c. 965 · Event
The king who 'made the Danes Christian' proclaims it on the great Jelling runestone; a millennium later his nickname is on every wireless device on earth.
On these timelines: Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age, Master, Christianity, Major Religions
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