613– Queen Brynhilda, Visigoth Warrior Queen, controls parts of Northern Gaul.
768–814 Charlemagne
772– 804: Charlemagne invades what is now northwestern Germany, battling the Saxons for more than thirty years and finally crushing their rebellion, incorporating Saxony into the Frankish Empire.
785 The Council of Paderborn rules that sorcerers are to be reduced to serfdom and made over to the service of the Church.
793 The first written account of a Viking raid carried out on the abbey of Lindisfarne in northern England.
794 Vikings attacks the monastery at Yarrow, but fails.
795 Vikings run assaults on monasteries in Scotland and approach the Irish sea and attacks on Ireland starts.
797 Vikings attacks Lambay, Ireland.
798 Vikings attacks on France begin.
799 St. Philibert Monastery (France) sacked
800 Norwegians settle Faroe Islands
800 Skiringsal and Birka trade centers are founded.
802 Vikings attacks the monastery at the holly Columbas on the isle Iona of the Hebrides.
805 Vikings attacks the monastery at the holly Columbas for the second time.
820 Vikings conquers the Isle of Man and establishes permanently.
820 Vikings attacks Flanders and approches the moth of river Seine.
834 Vikings approaches the river Thames, England.
834 Danes attack Dorestad, now in the Netherlands
841 Norwegians over winter in Ireland
839 – Turgeis (Torgisl) and a big Viking fleet conquers Ireland and settles permanently.
841 – Vikings under the leadership of Turgeis founds Dublin, Ireland.
841 – Vikings burns Lillebonne, Caudebec and Rouen and destroys the abbeys of Jumieges and St Wandrille.
843 – Vikings of Vestfold establishes a power base at the isle Noirmountier (Loire) and raids Nates.
844 – A Viking raid on Seville is repulsed.
844 – Turgeis is killed by the Irish, drowned in Loch Nair.
845 – Viking chieftain Ragnar Lodbrok attacks Paris along a big fleet.
850: Longphorts established in Ireland
850: Danes spend first winter in England
852: Danes spend first winter in Frankia
853 – Olaf the White conquers Ireland along a big Viking fleet.
853: Norwegian Olaf the White established as king at Dublin
857 – Vikings raids Paris again.
858 – Vikings captures the abbot of St Denis and claims ransome.
859 – Vikings raids in the Mediterranean for the first time.
860 – Rus (Sweds) Vikings attacks Constantinople (Istanbul).
861- The third big attack on Paris by Vikings.
862 – Novgorod in Russia is founded by the Rus Viking, Ulrich.
863 – Xanten demolished by Vikings.
865: Danish Great Army arrives in East Anglia
866: Norwegian Harald Finehair subjugates Scottish Isles
866 – Danish Vikings establishes the kingdom of York, England.
870 – Harold Luva (Fairhair) starts his effort to gain full control in Norway.
870: Danes rule over one half of England
871 – Olaf the White returns to Norway, his brother Ivarr becoms ruler of Ireland.
871–899 Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex, Viking advance is halted in England. Later he becomes the first king of a united England and formed new laws and fostered a rebirth of religious and scholarly activities.
873: Ingolf Arnason founds Reykjavik, Iceland
874 – Ivarr the Boneless dies, his sons continues attacks on north-eastern England.
879 – Rurik establishes Kiev as power center of the Kievan Rus’ domains.
880s: Norwegian Sigurd the Mighty moves into the Scottish mainland
885 – A huge fleet of Viking ships attacks Paris, but fails in conquering the city.
885- Harald (Luva) Fairhair finally unites Norway as one kingdom, first in Scandinavia.
886 – Alfred and the Danes splits England under the Danelaw pact.
891- The Vikings at Noirmountier (France) is finally beaten.
894 – Turf-Einar, son of Rognwald and half brother of Rollo, becomes earl of Orkney.
900 – Vikings raids in the Mediterranean again.
902 – The Irish regain Dublin from the Vikings, and rule for fifteen years.
906 – Canon Eposcopi, a collection of church laws, appeared. It declared that belief in witchcraft was heretical.
911 – The Viking chieftain Rollo is granted land by the Frankish king and founds the Duchy of Normandy.
917 – Vikings defeats Dublin by military power and regains the throne.
928 – Kings Æthelstan and Harald Fairhair joins in a treaty to gain control of the Norse Vikings.
930 – The first democracy (Alltinget) of the world is founded at Thingvellir, Iceland, by Vikings.
940 – Harald Fairhair dies and his son Eirik Blood-axe struggle to gain full control of Norway, but fails.
941 – Rus Vikings attacks Constantinople (Istanbul).
947 – Eirik Blood-axe, son of Fairhair, gains control of York.
949 – Olaf Crovan defeats Eirik Blood-axe, who flees.
950 – Eirik Blood-axe regains control of York.
954 – Eirik Blood-axe killed at the Battle of Stainmore in York, Vikings defeated by King Edmund.
957 – King Hrothgar, future king of the Danes is born.
974 – Emperor Otto II of Germany attacks Denmark, but fails because of Norwegian help.
976 – Maccus Haraldsson, first known king of Man, dies, his brother Gudrød approaches throne.
976 – Angelsey (coast of Wales) is included to the Norse kingdom of Man.
980 – Vikings starts regular attacks to gain control of England.
984 – Viking leader Erik the Red discovers Greenland and starts settling.
985 – The Jomsvikings attacks Norway, lead by Earl Sigvalde, but is firmly defeated at Hjørungavåg.
985: Norse farmers led by Erik the Red build a series of small settlements along Greenland and western North America
986 – Viking ships sails in Newfoundland waters.
991 – Viking chieftain Olaf Tryggvasson, along 93 ships, defeats Byrhtnoth at Maldon (August).
991 – Æthelred II pays, the first Danegeld ransom, off £ 10,000 in silver to stop Viking attack on London.
994 – Æthelred II pays off £16,000 in silver to stop Viking attacks on London.
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