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700 CE - Viking Explorers leave homeland in search of food

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700 CE - Viking Explorers leave homeland in search of food

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As fish was a sustainable and preferred food resource for Viking society, fisherman (or Macassan) left their native homeland of Scandinavia in search of plentiful fish reserves to harvest.

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793 CE - Vikings attack Lindisfarne Monastery 

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793 CE - Vikings attack Lindisfarne Monastery 

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For the monks of Lindisfarne, the 8th June AD 793 was destined to be one of their darkest days. ... They came to the church of Lindisfarne, laid everything waste with grievous plundering, trampled the holy places with polluted steps, dug up the altars and seized all the treasures of the holy church.

https://digventures.com/lindisfarne/timeline/diary/ad-793-the-vikings-invade-lindisfarne/

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November 25, 885–October 886, nearly year-long Viking siege of Paris, at the time the capital of the kingdom of the West Franks, notable as the first occasion on which the Vikings dug themselves in for a long siege rather than conduct a hit-and-run raid or fight a battle. Their failure to capture the city marked a turning point in French history.

Adams, S. (2019). Siege of Paris. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from, https://www.britannica.com/event/Siege-of-Paris-885-886

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**EVENT YEAR?**                    Norse settlers discover Dublin, Ireland 

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**EVENT YEAR?**                    Norse settlers discover Dublin, Ireland 

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Or rather, they seized the ecclesiastical settlement and began to build camps of their own, which would go on to become the capital of the Republic of Ireland.

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Hedeby (Old Norse: Heiðabýr; German: Haithabu) was an important stronghold in Viking Age Denmark from the 8th-11th centuries CE and, along with Birka in present-day Sweden, it was the most important Viking trading center in Europe. During this time it flourished under the control of Danish Vikings.

Weiner, J. B. (2018). Hedeby. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from, https://www.ancient.eu/Hedeby/

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Chinese Empire ends in civil war as T'ang Dynasty collapses. Chaos continues until 960.
Vikings begin conquest of Inner Mongolia and parts of northern China. By 1123 they will have successfully conquered the entire region.

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981 CE - Erik the Red discovers Greenland

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981 CE - Erik the Red discovers Greenland

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Expelled from Norway and later Iceland, Erik the Red settled in Greenland with 25 ships, people and goods. Within around 20 years, more than 3,000 Vikings were said to be living on Greenland as farmers.

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986 CE - Viking ships sight Newfoundland

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986 CE - Viking ships sight Newfoundland

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L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site is the only authenticated Norse site in North America. Leif Erikson is the man credited with discovering the region, but according to stories it was Bjarni Herjolfsson who first discovered the land, having been blown off course from a journey to Greenland. About 10-15 years later, Erikson would go on to lead an expedition to the New World.

1015: The North American settlement is abandoned. The area known as ‘Vinland' was abandoned, most likely due to limited supplies and the long journey required to trade with Scandinavia.

Nikel, D. (2019). The Viking Timeline: What Happened & When?. Life in Norway. Retrieved from, https://www.lifeinnorway.net/viking-timeline/

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King Harald III Sigurdsson of Norway, aka Harald Hardrada (“the Hard Ruler”), was a career warlord, a broad-shouldered giant of a man who stood well over 6 feet and who had spent the preceding 35 years honing his martial skills in a variety of conflicts, taking him from the royal court in Kiev to the palaces of Byzantium. Soon after assuming the throne of Norway in 1047, Hardrada—who was flamboyant as he was fierce and a prolific composer of heroic sagas—launched into a protracted war with Denmark, not tasting victory until 1064. By 1066 the ever-ambitious warrior—who, like Duke William of Normandy, was a potential claimant to the English throne—hungered for a new conquest. At the urging of a future ally, Hardrada set his sights on England. A fleet of 300 dragon-headed Viking long-ships descended from the northeast, bearing some 9,000 armed, plunder-seeking warriors.

Manley, B. (2020). Last of the Vikings - Stamford Bridge, 1066. Historynet. Retrieved from, https://www.historynet.com/last-of-the-vikings-stamford-bridge-1066.htm