Vikings

Viking Civilization Ends

1066 BCE

At the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the Norwegian king Haraldr harðráði was killed as he attempted to reclaim a part of England. This was a big deal because he was a very important viking and his lost was a tragedy. https://www.google.co.jp/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjTgoGx1OvQAhVJNJQKHZWMDMQQFggkMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hurstwic.org%2Fhistory%2Farticles%2Fsociety%2Ftext%2Fwhat_happened.htm&usg=AFQjCNH1cbGsWm91IuXkNHM_nU1GGACnXQ&bvm=bv.141320020,d.dGo

Vikings abandon the Vinland settlement on the coast of North America

1015 BCE

Vikings abandon the Vinland settlement on the coast of North America.
This was important because this helped the vikings expand their land to coastal areas tremendously.

Battle of Clontarf

1014 BCE

Battle of Clontarf was the last battle that invlolved the vikings. The vikings were fighting for the Irish army and the battle was very violent. A lot of men and women were killed.

Vikings get paid to leave land

991 BCE

The vikings received a very large pay off and promised to never bother Archbishop or Olaf again.
This added on onto their huge amount of goods and benefited them a lot.

Battle of Wachet

988 BCE

Vikings attacked and burned the village of Wachet. A English leader called for help from the surrounding population but no one heard him. This was a very bloody battle however, the vikings won.
This was a huge victory and the vikings benefited from this.

Viking ships sail in Newfoundland waters

986 BCE

Viking ships sail in Newfoundland waters and find America.
They colonize America and expand their territories even more.

Frankish King trades some land.

914 BCE

West Frankish king gives Rouen and surrounding territory a viking chief exchange for latter's denying passage to the Seine to other raiders. This region of northern France is now known as Normady.
This land is now Normandy so that's important.

Vikings raid the Mediterranean coast

900 BCE

Vikings raid the Mediterranean coast in order to expand.
The Mediterranan coast is pretty big so this helped them expand a lot and helped them colonize even more coastal areas.

King Charles the Bald began to protect Frankia.

862 BCE

Frankia was starting to get raided by the vikings very frequently so, King Charles the Bald began defending West Frankia more. He started fortifying towns, abbeys, rivers, and coastal areas. Vikings then just switched over to England instead.

A wave of viking attacks rise.

851 BCE

A wave of viking attacks rose in England and viking armies began conquering East Anglia and Northumberland.

Vikings begin to attack Frankia

840 BCE

The vikings started taking advantage of conflicts in Europe and began to expand their activity to more land. Louis the Pious's son supported the vikings but, soon the vikings started to realize Loather (Louis' son) would pay the vikings in riches if they didn't attack Frankia so, they did the opposite and started attacking Frankia.

The first recorded viking raid.

799 BCE

The first recorded raid was in the island monastries of Skye and Iona. This was the very start of the vikings and was a holy place of Britain. They slaughtered monks and and took so many riches.

Viking Civilization Starts

794 BCE

Vikings were actually Scandinavian and started in 794 AD. This was their first raid which was in Lindisfarne Monastery.
They had no respect for religious temples and such because they didn't believe in religion.

Vikings start looking for riches instead of land

701 BCE

The Scandinavians began to look for riches. Europe was becoming richer and started making more trading markets.
Scandinavians started learning about sailing technology and started focusing on their conflicts with European kingdoms.

Salbard

121 BCE

Vikings discover Svalbard and named it this as they found it.
This was a huge area of land and helped them expand even more! This was a huge deal to the vikings because this helped them expand so much.