800 - The Oseberg Viking longship is buried about this time.
840 - Viking settlers found the city of Dublin in Ireland.
844 - A Viking raid on Seville is repulsed.
860 - Rus Vikings attack Constantinople (Istanbul).
862 - Novgorod in Russia is founded by the Rus Viking, Ulrich.
866 - Danish Vikings establish a kingdom in York, England.
871 - Alfred the Great becomes king of Wessex; the Danish advance is halted in England.
872 - Harald I gains control of Norway.
879 - Rurik establishes Kiev as the center of the Kievan Rus' domains.
886 - Alfred divides England with the Danes under the Danelaw pact.
900 - The Vikings raid along the Mediterranean coast.
911 - The Viking chief Rollo is