9000 - 8000 B.C. Earliest signs of settlement.
8000 - 4000 B.C. Old Stone Age. Hunters and fishermen. Rock carvings. Milder climate.
4000 - 1500 B.C. New Stone Age. Livestock. Early agriculture.
1500 - 500 B.C. Bronze Age. Agricultural tools, jewellery, glass, weapons. Foreign trade.
500 B.C.-1000 A.D. Iron Age. Iron ploughs and scythes.
800 - 1000 A.D. Viking period. Longships, trade and conquest. Runic inscriptions. Voyages of discovery.
1030 Unification of Norway into one kingdom. Introduction of Christianity
1200 The Norwegian empire
1350 The Black Death. Population reduced.
1380 - 1814 Union with Denmark.
1814 Constitution adopted.
1814 - 1905 Union with Sweden.
1905 End of Union. Haakon VII crowned king.
1940-1945 World War II. German occupation.
1957 Death of Haakon VII. Olav V becomes king.
1970 Oil and gas depostits discovered off the Norwegian coast.
1981 Norway´s first female Prime Minister
1991 Death of Olav V. Harald V becomes king.
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