Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age
Explore Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Viking Age (793)
- Viking raid on Lindisfarne (793)
- Kalmar Union (1397)
- Norse settlement of Iceland (874)
- Norse contact at L'Anse aux Meadows (1000)
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594)
- Great Northern War (1700)
- Althing established (930)
- Winter War (1939)
- First Nobel Prizes awarded (1901)
- Leif Erikson (970)
- Swedish Empire (1611)
- Finland declares independence (1917)
- Amundsen reaches the South Pole (1911)
- Cnut the Great (995)
- Munch's The Scream (1893)
- Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- Great Heathen Army lands (865)
- Harald Bluetooth converts Denmark (965)
- Gustav Vasa elected King of Sweden (1523)
- The Icelandic Sagas (1250)
- Harald Fairhair unifies Norway (872)
- North Sea Empire (1016)
- Roald Amundsen (1872)
- Finland and Sweden join NATO (2023)
- Tycho Brahe (1546)
- Reign of Cnut the Great (1016)
- Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (911)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)