| Norway - 29-July-1030 : Battle of Stiklestad (Norway): Olav Haraldsson loses to his pagan vassals and is killed in the battle. He is later canonized and becomes the patron saint of Norway and ''Rex perpetuum Norvegiae'' ('the eternal king of Norway').
- 23-August-1387 : Olaf, King of Norway and Denmark and claimant to the throne of Sweden, dies. The vacant thrones come under the regency of his mother Margaret I of Denmark, who will soon become Queen in her own right.
- 20-January-1513 : Christian II becomes King of Denmark and Norway.
- 18-January-1520 : King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Asunde.
- 24-December-1715 : Swedish troops occupy Norway.
- 01-December-1768 : James Cook departs Plymouth on his first voyage of discovery.
The slave ship ''Fredensborg'' sinks off Tromoy in Norway.
- 14-January-1814 : Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in exchange for west Pomerania, as part of the Treaty of Kiel.
- 11-February-1814 : Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.
- 07-September-1818 : Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
- 06-July-1825 : The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck gains possession of Glucksburg and changes his title to Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburgstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg The line of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg later becomes the Royal House of Greece, Denmark and Norway.
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