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The Vikings

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  • Period: 753 to 753

    Colony on Lake Ladoga

    It was the first Viking settlement outside of Scandinavia. The Viking longships were tested in the Baltic Sea before venturing into the Atlantic. It's difficult to ensure its dimensions, since only simple archaeological remains ofmaterials have been found that suggest a first presence in the city of Ladoga.
  • Period: 793 to 793

    Attack on Lindisfance

    It was not the first of the Viking attacks on British coasts, since they had been receiving their visits for some summes, but it was the most violent. Lindisfame monasteryhad been founded in the year 634 and soon became one of the most important in the north of the British Isles. That 8th of June, date accepted by much of historiography, the Vikings razed the monastery, killing and enslaving almost all the monks.
  • Period: 841 to 841

    Fundation of Dublin

    From the year 830 approximately the Vikingprowled the Irish coasts carrying out small looting. Ireland, despite having been Christianized by Saint Patrick in the 5th century, was an island with a high rate of autarchism. There are practically no relevant populations, hence the Vikings found what they were loocking for, aland further southto settle. In the year 841 they founded a port called Dubh Linn, which would end up becoming the current capital.
  • Period: 844 to 844

    They arrive in the Iberian Peninsula

    Starting from the north of France, where they had already sacked Paris, a fleet of approximately 100drakkars arrive at the Astur Kingdom. In the searsh of rivers through which to enter the mainland, they rain into the troops of Ramiro 1 at least twicee, the first in Gijón, the second in La Coruña, despite the lack of clear sources, it seems that they were rejected in both occasions, since only a month later Lisbon in sacked.
  • Period: 860 to 860

    Attack on Constantinople

    We left the Varegos in Lake Ladoga at the first point. A century later, they had already crossed all of what is now Russia, setting commercially in cities such as Kiev, the current capital of Ukraine. From there they went down the Dnieper River to the Black Sea. Thet year the troops of Emperor Michael III were in Asia Minior, and the powerful Byzantine fleet was fighting the Mediterranean against pirates from North Africa looting various coastal cities, burnings churches and convents.
  • Period: 866 to 866

    The Viking kingdom of Jórvik is born

    Ivar Ragnarsson, son of the legendary Viking king Ragnar Lobbrok, conquers the city of York, founded in Roman times. From there these Vikings originally from Denmark controlled the first Viking kigdom in Great Britain. It will last just under a century, since in the year 954 the Vikings are defeated Automatic Repcion British kingdom of Northumbria.
  • Period: 911 to 911

    Foundation of the kingdom of Normandy

    The Vikings had been sowing terror in the French Northwest Territories fot at least seven decades, reaching the capital Paris at least twice. The Frankish kings unable to stop their advances, decide to agree with the Vikingleader Rollón the transfer of the territories, in exchange for protection from both the Vikings and the English neigjbors. One of the most important kingdoms of the Middle Ages had just been born.
  • Period: 960 to 960

    Harald of Denmark is baptized

    Harald of Denmark, nicknamed "Blue Tooth" converts to Christianity. The motifs sail through the mists of legends, about the demonstration of the power of the Christian God, by a German monk not to burn his hand after holding a hot iron.
  • Period: 985 to 985

    Colonization of Greenland

    Erik "the Red" was one of the great Viking navigators. Norwegian and staunch defender of traditional paganism in a period of continued Christianization of the Nordic people. For three years before and during the summers he toured the contour of the great island, which he sold on his return to Iceland as"green". Finally, in that year 985, he began the construction of his private farm, together with a large group of settlers in a place knoown as Brattahlid.
  • Period: 1000 to 1000

    Vikings arrive in North America

    The adventure of "Erik the Red" was continued by his son Leif Erikson. About the turn of the millennium and sailing from Greenland towards the basket, it reached the current Canadian island of Newfoundland. Described in the Vikingsagas as a place rich in salmon, grapes and extensive forests. An arrival that was questioned until the 60s of the 20th century when the Ingstand couple found the remains of a Viking village in a place know as "The Jellyfish Cove".