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872 Battle of Hafrsfjord in Norway, Harald Fairhair first king of Norway.
872 Battle of Hafrsfjord in Norway, Harald Fairhair first king of Norway.
900 Harald Fairhair of the Yngling or Scilfing dynasty subdues the petty kings of Norway and conquers the Orkney and Shetland islands.
931 Eric Bloodaxe becomes second king of Norway
935 Haakon the Good, son of Harald Fairhair, once again reunites the Norwegian
lands.
961 Harald II of Norway becomes ruler of Western part of Norway
995 Olaf Tryggvason is crowned king of Norway and builds the country's first church.
997 Trondheim
, Norway is founded by the king Olav Tryggvason. This will function as the main city and capital of Norway, until Bergen is founded in 1070.
1000 Sweyn I
establishes Danish
control over part of Norway.
1000 Oslo
, Norway is founded. (The exact year is debatable, but the 1000 year anniversary was held in year 2000.)
1008 Olav Haraldsson, the future king of Norway landed on Saaremaa island in Estonia
, won a battle there and forced the inhabitants to pay tribute
1014 Holmgang declared illegal in Norway
1015 Berserkers are banned in Norway.
1015 Olav Haraldsson becomes king of Norway.
1019 A treaty between Sweden
and Norway is conducted at Kungälv.
1030 Battle of Stiklestad in Norway. Olav Haraldsson loses to his pagan vassals and is killed in the battle. He is later sainted - and he becomes the patron saint of Norway and Rex perpetuum Norvegiae ('the eternal king of Norway').
1035 Magnus I
becomes king of Norway.
1042 Harald III of Norway
, at this time leader of the Varangian Guard in the Byzantine Empire, returns to Norway, possibly because of his involvement in Maniaces' revolt.
1047 Harald III
becomes sole king of Norway.
1048 The city of Oslo
is founded by Harald Hardråde of Norway.
1093 Magnus III
(Magnus Barefoot) is crowned king of Norway
1152 Establishment of the archbishopric of Nidaros (Trondheim
), Norway.
1163 Law of Succession is introduced in Norway.
1179 The Norwegian
Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1204 Valdemar II
, King of Denmark
, is recognized as king in Norway.
1251 Alexander Nevsky
signs the first peace treaty between Kievan Rus'
and Norway.
1262 The Icelandic Commonwealth
enters into a treaty establishing a union with Norway and acknowledges Norwegian King Haakon IV as its ruler.
1266 The war between Scotland
and Norway ends as King Alexander III of Scotland
and King Magnus VI of Norway
agree to the Treaty of Perth, which cedes the Western Isles and Isle of Man
to Scotland in exchange for a large monetary payment.
1290 Construction on the Akershus Fortress of Oslo
, Norway is begun.
1294 John Balliol, King of Scotland
, decides to refuse King Edward I of England
's demands for support in a planned invasion of France
, and instead informs the French of Edward's plans and negotiates the Auld Alliance with France and Norway. These actions play a part in precipitating the Scottish Wars of Independence, to begin in 1296.
1299 King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo
, and builds Akershus fortress in Oslo
. Norway is ruled from this fortress the next 500 years.
1319 Magnus VII ascends the throne
of Norway and unites the country with Sweden
.
1326 Treaty of Novgorod delineates the border between Russia
and Norway in Finnmark.
1343 Magnus II of Sweden abdicates from the throne of Norway in favor of his son Haakon VI of Norway
. However Haakon is still a minor, allowing Magnus to be the de facto
ruler.
1349 The Black Death
is spread to Norway when an English ship with everyone dead on board floats to Bergen.
1380 Iceland
, as a part of Norway passes under the Danish
crown.
1389 Margaret I
defeats Albert in battle, thus becoming ruler of Denmark
, Norway and Sweden
1397 The Kalmar Union unifies Norway, Sweden
and Denmark
.
1457 Charles VIII of Sweden
is declared deposed. Archbishop of Sweden Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna and statesman Erik Axelsson Tott become Co-Regents of Sweden. The throne is then offered to Christian I of Denmark
and Norway.
1464 Christian I of Denmark
and Norway who was also serving as King of Sweden
is declared deposed from the later throne. His deposed predecessor Charles VIII of Sweden
is re-elected to the throne.
1472 Orkney and Shetland are returned by Norway to Scotland
, due to a defaulted dowry payment
1513 Christian II
becomes King of Denmark
and Norway.
1520 King Christian II of Denmark
and Norway defeats the Swedes
at Lake Asunde.
1536 Protestantism
introduced in Denmark
and Norway, by king Christian III.
1537 Christian III forces introduction of Lutheran protestantism
in Denmark
and Norway
1567 King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway founds Fredrikstad in Norway.
1576 The city Fredrikstad of Norway founded by king Frederick II of Denmark and Norway.
1641 The Norwegian
city of Kristiansand was founded by King Christian IV
1742 Molde in Norway becomes a city.
1767 The first known competition of the winter sport biathlon takes place, in Norway
1768 The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
1786 The trade with Iceland
is opened to all Danish
and Norwegian
traders.
1814 Denmark
cedes Norway to Sweden
in exchange for west Pomerania
, as part of the Treaty of Kiel.
1814 Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.
1818 Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim
.
1859 Charles XV
succeeds his father Oscar I
King of Sweden
and Norway (as Charles IV).
1905 The Norwegian
Parliament declares the union with Sweden
dissolved, thus Norway achieves its indepen
1905 Norway holds referendum
in favour of dissolving the union with Sweden
.
1905 Sweden
agreed to the repeal of the union with Norway.
1908 Isak Saba, the first Sami in the Norwegian
parliament
1913 Female suffrage in Norway
1920 League of Nations gives Spitzbergen to Norway.
1921 General strike
begins in Norway
1932 Norway annexes northern Greenland
.
1933 International court in the Hague decides that Greenland
belongs to Denmark
and condemns Norwegian landings on eastern Greenland. Norway submits to the decision.
1933 Vidkun Quisling
and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling - the national-socialist party of Norway.
1940 World War II
- British destroyer ''Cossack'' pursues German
freighter ''Altmark'' into Jossingfjord in southwestern Norway, resulting in freedom for 290 British sailors and seamen held as prisoners.
1940 World War II
: Germany
invades Denmark
and Norway in operation ''Weserübung.'' The British campaign in Norway is simultaneously commenced.
1940 World War II: Norway surrenders to German
forces.
1941 World War II: British Commandos raid the Norwegian
port of Vaagso, causing Hitler to reinforce the garrison and defenses
1943 World War II: After flying from Britain
, 160 American
bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German
-controlled Vemork, Norway.
1944 Red Army
liberates Kirkenes, the first town in Norway to be liberated from German occupation.
1945 World War II: Hermann Göring
is captured by the United States Army
; Norway arrests Vidkun Quisling
; Soviet Union
marks V-E Day.
1946 Trygve Lie
of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1965 Per Borten
forms a government in Norway.
1966 Long-term potentiation (LTP), the putative cellular mechanism of learning and memory, is first observed by Terje Lømo in Oslo
, Norway.
1970 Norway announces that it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea
coast.
1971 Trygve Bratteli forms a government in Norway.
1971 Norway begins oil production in the North Sea
.
1978 Norway opens a natural gas
field in the Polar Sea.
1983 The worst offshore diving accident ever, happens on board the Byford Dolphin rig in the North Sea
of the coast of Norway. Five divers are killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.
1990 ''Scandinavian Star'', a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark
, leaving 158 dead.
1991 Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V
.
1992 Kristiansund's connection to the main land of Norway, Krifast, opens.
1995 The Draupner wave in the North Sea
in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
1995 The Norwegian rocket incident - A rocket launched from the space exploration centre at Andøya, Norway is briefly interpreted by the Russians as an incoming attack.
1999 The Norwegian
passenger ferry ''MS Sleipner'' sinks, killing 16 people on board.
2004 Armed robbers steal Edvard Munch
's ''The Scream'', ''Madonna'', and other paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo
, Norway.
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