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| c. 1000 |
| | | Iceland's parliament, the althing, passes a resolution that everyone on the island is to be baptized | |
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| c. 1240 |
| | | Haakon IV is the first ruler to build up a strong Norway, some two centuries after the region becomes a single kingdom | |
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| 1248 |
| | | Birger Jarl establishes a dynasty which brings all Sweden under a single rule | |
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| 1262 |
| | | The Norwegian king, Haakon IV, annexes Iceland as his personal fief, bringing to an end the commonwealth established in AD 930 | |
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| 1323 |
| | | A treaty divides Finland between two powerfully competitive neighbours, Sweden and Novgorod | |
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| 1389 |
| | | With a victory near Falköping, Margaret becomes regent of Sweden as well as Denmark and Norway | |
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| 1397 |
| | | With the coronation of the 16-year-old Eric of Pomerania, the crowns of Denmark, Norway and Sweden are formally united for the first time | |
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| 1410 |
| | | The Viking settlement in Greenland ends, after 400 years, when the last ship leaves the colony and sails for Norway | |
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| c. 1450 |
| | | The Swedish Riksdag includes peasants as a fourth estate, alongside clergy, nobles and burghers | |
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| 1520 |
| | | Eighty distinguished Swedish citizens are executed together on the main square, in what becomes known as the Stockholm Bloodbath | |
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