The Viking Age
Explore 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)
- Battle of Stamford Bridge (1066)
- Great Heathen Army lands (865)
- Leif Erikson reaches Vinland (1000)
- Alfred the Great (849)
- Norse contact at L'Anse aux Meadows (1000)
- Norse settlement of Iceland (874)
- Battle of Edington (878)
- Leif Erikson (970)
- Cnut the Great (995)
- Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (911)
- Treaty of Wedmore / Danelaw (878)
- Erik the Red (950)
- North Sea Empire (1016)
- Rurik invited to rule Novgorod (862)
- Norse settlement of Greenland (985)
- Siege of Paris (885-886) (885)
- Althing established (930)
- York falls to the Great Army (866)
- Reign of Cnut the Great (1016)
- Vikings found Dublin (841)
- Harald Bluetooth converts Denmark (965)
- Varangian Guard formed (988)
- Harald Fairhair unifies Norway (872)
- Danelaw established (886)
- Danegeld payments (991)
- Battle of Clontarf (1014)
- Oseberg ship burial (834)
- Kievan Rus' begins (882)