1. ★ c. 9500 BCE First settlers follow the retreating ice
2. ★ c. 5200 BCE Rock carvings begin at Alta
3. c. 4000 BCE Farming reaches the south
4. c. 2400 BCE The Battle Axe culture arrives
5. c. 1700 BCE The Nordic Bronze Age
6. c. 1000 BCE Ship carvings at Bardal and Begby
7. ★ c. 500 BCE Bog iron and the Pre-Roman Iron Age
8. c. 1 CE Roman goods reach the fjords
9. c. 160 CE The earliest runic inscriptions
10. c. 400 CE Hillforts and the Migration Period
11. ★ 536 CE The dust veil and the Fimbulwinter
12. c. 700 Petty kingdoms take shape
13. c. 780 The trading town of Kaupang
14. ★ 8 June 793 The raid on Lindisfarne
15. c. 800 The Oseberg ship is built
16. c. 820 Norse settle the Faroes
17. ★ 834 The Oseberg burial
18. ★ c. 860 Norse ships reach Iceland
19. ★ c. 872 (traditional) Harald Fairhair wins at Hafrsfjord
20. c. 890 Ottar's voyage to the White Sea
21. c. 900 The Gokstad burial
22. 930 Iceland founds the Althing
23. 954 Erik Bloodaxe dies at Stainmore
24. c. 985 Erik the Red settles Greenland
25. ★ 995 Olaf Tryggvason takes the throne
26. ★ c. 1000 Leif Erikson reaches Vinland
27. 1000 The Battle of Svolder
28. 1015 Olaf Haraldsson returns
29. 1024 Christian law at Moster
30. ★ 29 July 1030 The Battle of Stiklestad
31. ★ 1031 Olaf canonised as Saint Olaf
32. 1042 Magnus the Good rules Norway and Denmark
33. ★ 25 September 1066 Harald Hardrada dies at Stamford Bridge
34. ★ c. 1070 Nidaros Cathedral begun
35. 1095 Bergen founded
36. 1110 Sigurd the Crusader sails for Jerusalem
37. ★ 1130 The civil war era begins
38. ★ 1152 The Archdiocese of Nidaros founded
39. 1163 The law of succession restricts the throne
40. 1184 Sverre Sigurdsson takes the kingdom
41. ★ 1217 Haakon IV becomes king
42. 1240 Skule Baardsson killed
43. 1247 Haakon IV crowned by a papal legate
44. 1250 Trade treaty with Lubeck
45. 1261 Greenland submits to the crown
46. ★ 1262 Iceland accepts Norwegian rule
47. ★ 2 July 1266 The Hebrides sold to Scotland
48. ★ 1274 Magnus Lawmender's national code
49. 1299 Akershus fortress begun
50. ★ 1319 Personal union with Sweden
51. 1343 The Hanseatic Kontor at Bergen
52. ★ 1349 The Black Death reaches Bergen
53. 1350s Farms abandoned and rents collapse
54. c. 1360 The Norwegian nobility thins out
55. ★ 1380 The Danish union begins
56. ★ 17 June 1397 The Kalmar Union
57. 1450 The Treaty of Bergen
58. ★ 1468 Orkney and Shetland pledged to Scotland
59. c. 1500 Stockfish and the timber trade
60. 1523 Sweden leaves the Kalmar Union
61. ★ 1537 The Reformation imposed
62. 1567 The Northern Seven Years War reaches Norway
63. 1596 Christian IV's northern voyage
64. 1624 Oslo burns and becomes Christiania
65. 1628 A standing Norwegian army raised
66. ★ 1645 Jamtland and Harjedalen ceded to Sweden
67. ★ 1658 Trondelag lost and regained
68. 1660 Bohuslan lost permanently
69. 1687 The Norwegian Code of Christian V
70. 1716 Tordenskjold at Dynekilen
71. 30 November 1718 Charles XII killed at Fredriksten
72. ★ 1739 Compulsory schooling
73. 1769 The first census
74. 1771 The Strile War at Bergen
75. 1788 Hans Nielsen Hauge and the lay revival
76. ★ 1807 The blockade and the years of hunger
77. ★ 1811 A Norwegian university founded
78. ★ 14 January 1814 The Treaty of Kiel
79. ★ 17 May 1814 The Constitution at Eidsvoll
80. July 1814 The Swedish campaign
81. ★ 14 August 1814 The Convention of Moss
82. 1821 The Storting abolishes noble privilege
83. ★ 1825 The Restauration sails for New York
84. 1837 Local self-government
85. 1854 The first railway opens
86. 1859 Ibsen, Bjornson and the national romantics
87. ★ 1863 Sami land rights curtailed
88. 1869 The Storting meets annually
89. 1879 A Doll's House
90. ★ 1884 Parliamentarism established
91. ★ 1893 Munch paints The Scream
92. 1896 Nansen returns from the Arctic drift
93. 1898 Universal male suffrage
94. ★ 7 June 1905 The Storting dissolves the union
95. ★ November 1905 Haakon VII takes the throne
96. 1906 Hydroelectric industry takes off
97. 1909 The Concession Laws
98. ★ 14 December 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole
99. ★ 1913 Women get the vote
100. 1914-1918 The neutral ally
101. ★ 9 February 1920 The Svalbard Treaty
102. 1925 Christiania becomes Oslo again
103. 1928 Sigrid Undset wins the Nobel Prize
104. 1935 Labour takes power
105. ★ 9 April 1940 Germany invades
106. May 1940 The battles for Narvik
107. ★ 7 June 1940 The king refuses and leaves
108. 1 February 1942 Quisling installed
109. ★ 28 February 1943 The heavy water sabotage
110. October 1944 Finnmark burned
111. ★ 8 May 1945 Liberation
112. 24 October 1945 Quisling executed
113. 1946 Trygve Lie becomes UN Secretary-General
114. ★ 4 April 1949 Norway joins NATO
115. 1952 The Nordic Council founded
116. 1960 EFTA and the trade question
117. 1962 Phillips asks for a licence
118. 1965 The shelf divided
119. ★ 23 December 1969 Ekofisk found
120. ★ 1971 The ten oil commandments
121. ★ 25 September 1972 The first EC referendum says no
122. 1972 Statoil founded
123. 22 April 1977 The Bravo blowout
124. ★ 1979 The Alta dam conflict
125. 27 March 1980 Alexander Kielland capsizes
126. ★ 1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes prime minister
127. 1987 The Brundtland Report
128. ★ 1989 The Sami Parliament opens
129. ★ 1990 The oil fund created
130. 1993 The Oslo Accords negotiated
131. February 1994 The Lillehammer Olympics
132. ★ 28 November 1994 The second EU referendum says no
133. 2000 Snohvit and the move north
134. 2004 Ethical guidelines for the fund
135. 15 September 2010 The Barents Sea boundary settled
136. ★ 22 July 2011 The Oslo and Utoya attacks
137. 2013 A conservative government
138. 2019 The fund passes ten trillion kroner
139. 2021 The Fosen wind judgment
140. 2022 Europe's largest gas supplier
141. 2025 Electric cars pass ninety per cent