This is a timeline for A Norse America
1000's[]
1000's[]
- 1001: Leif Erikson first arrives in Newfoundland, he sets up Leifsbúðir, stays the winter and then leaves
- 1004: Leif's brother Thorvan arrives at Leifsbúðir and stays the winter with his men
- Spring 1005: Thorvan kills 8 natives while they are sleeping, a ninth escapes and brings a force to displace Thorvan's men. Thorvan escapes and sends message to Leif to bring aid. Start of the Nyrland - Native American war
- Summer 1005: Leif arrives with 50 strong men from Greenland. They succeed in destroying the nearby native residences, pushing them back along the peninsula.
- Autumn/fall 1005: Leif's men continue to push the natives back, destroying villages as they go. They eventually have control over around half of the Great Northern Peninsula
- Christmas day 1005: Leif Erikson declares himself king of Vinland. He sends out messengers to Greenland and Iceland to invite people to live in his new kingdom
- Summer 1006: The people of Vinland build a great hall in Leifsbúðir, as well as a church and plenty more houses for the people that have been arriving fast over the last few months.
- Autumn 1006: The harvest in Vinland is plentiful, but Iceland and Greenland are having famines, many more people move to Vinland.
The extent of King Leif I kingdom in the year 1010. Yellow represents the capital, Leifsbúðir
- Spring 1007: The battle of Holden Hill, an army of 200 Norsemen slaughters an army of native archers, giving the kingdom of Vinland much of the Great Northern peninsula
- Autumn 1007: Leif's men make a deal with a local tribe, in return for the tribe leaving the peninsula, the Norsemen give the tribe large boats. As the tribesmen were leaving, The Vinlandians shot arrows tipped with flame at them, causing serious damage tot he boats and killing many tribesmen
- Summer 1009: King Leif I, who now controls most of the peninsula, turns his attention north, and sends farmers over the sea to the southern area of Labrador, where they face no opposition.
1010's[]
- Winter 1010: A cold and vicious winter in Greenland and Scandinavia, coupled with an excellent harvest, sends immigration to Vinland skyrocketing. More settlements are built along the coast and a few in the mountains.
- Summer 1010: King Leif I is shot by a native as he hunts south of the border. He is left bedridden. Although he is still the king his brother does most of the kingly duties.
- 25 Dec 1010: Cnut Lambisson, a visiting priest from Greenland, is offered the role as head priest of Vinland. Cnut accepts, and starts to build small chapels across the kingdom.
- Summer 1015: After suffering for a long time, King Leif I finally dies from a fever. His only son Otkel, is only 6 years old, so Leif's brother Thorvan becomes the caretaker of the throne.
- 1018: The native tribes living in the southern half of Newfoundland have talks for a joint attack on Vinland, they decide on Midsummer's day 1019.
Extent of Vinland in 1020. Grey is kingdom. Red represents are that the kingdom currently controls.
- 1019: The battle of Newfoundland. The tribes gather up into a 400 strong army of men mostly archers, and attack a southern settlement in Vinland. Thorven quickly mustered up his men and went to battle. The natives entered a valley in the mountains. Thorvens men blocked both exits and rampaged through slaughtering the natives, leaving only three natives alive, those they sent back to their villages to warn them of the coming army. Thorven then rode south on horses gifted by the Icelandic king, burning all in site and winning Vinland a large are to the south. The only remaining tribesmen in Newfoundland gifted Vinland much of their produce in return for letting them keep their lands
1020s[]
- 1020: Otkel, aged 11, is placed into the care of Cnut, who fills his mind with religion. People are now flooding into the kingdom of Vinland, settlers start to expand slightly into Labrador more, Vinland Wine becomes a luxury for many European kings, who pay good money for it, so the farms flourish.
- 1022: Thorven, drunk one night after hunting, accidentally injures a priest. Cnut is extremely angry, and fills Otkels head with hatred for his own uncle.
- 1023: The Norwegian king, Olaf II Haraldsson, visits Vinland, bringing with him horses and soldiers to exchange for wine. Thorven agrees, and starts raids on the south tribes that are paying him compensation.
- 1025: Most of the natives on Newfoundland have either been killed or removed by Thorven and his Norwegian army. He celebrates a total conquest of Newfoundland by heavy drinking, caught hypothermia and died. Exactly 20 years after his father has crowned. Otkel is crowned king
- 1026: King Otkel creates a second branch of government, the holy branch. Responsibility for the nation will now be split into two sections, the King, and the holy council of six priests, led by the head priest Cnut. Alcohol is banned in the kingdom, and the country is renamed from Vinland to Nyrland, New Land.
- 1027: The remaining natives in the island are caught and forced to become Christians.
- 1028: A few Beothuk natives, noticing the large demand for wine, set up a town to the north of Nyrland, and start settling down and producing wine. Thy illegally trade with the people of Nyrland, who then sell it out of the country
1030s[]
- 1030: The illegal alcohol salesman are caught, and all 10 of them were sentenced to death. King Otkel warns his people than any more illegal behaviour will result in death. Head Priest Cnut establishes a new set of laws, 45 rules long, meaning that anyone who does not work 6 days a week is sentenced to banishment, and anyone caught working on a a Sunday is publicly lashed.
- 1031: King Otkel, a weak warrior, tries to destroy the Beothuk wine farm to the north. He falls of his horse after 10 minutes of riding and is so embarrassed he calls of the trip and bans anyone from leaving the kingdom without permission from the holy council.
- 1035: The holy council rules that the native wine merchants should be killed in the name of god. They send the army to arrest them. However, the army having not had wine in a long time, drank much while they had the natives tied up and they managed to escape. King Otkel’s sentences 25 of the 40 to death.
- 1037: On the eve of King Otkel’s wedding night, Cnut convinces King Otkel not to get married and to become a priest instead. King Otkel agrees, and the kingdom becomes a theocracy only 32 years after its inception, led by the Holy council.
- 1038: The holy council visit Pope Benedict IX in Rome. Nyrland is granted recognition as a Christian state and all members of the Holy state become honorary bishops, with Cnut becoming Archbishop of Leifsbúðir.
1040s
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- 1040: Priest Otkel is made a priest and joins the holy council. The native wine town is named Mammatuk, Beothuk for Man. Mammatuk is rapidly increasing, with natives and the many banished Nyrlanders coming together to produce highly revered wine.
- 1042: Frequent executions lead to a protest on the street in front of the great hall, now occupied by Cnut. He leans out the window and throws a stone, hitting and killing an 83 year old man. Bishop Olaf, a Nyrland man from Iceland who lived in the mountains and is part of the holy council, is shocked by this and brings it up at the next meeting that Cnut should be ejected from he council. Cnut uses his power as Head of the country and executes Olaf, leading to public outcry. More and more people have now left to join Mammatuk, a bustling town that has just created a fort and is experiencing heavy sales of wine.
- 1045: The Nyrland army take an area of land just to the west of Newfoundland (Currently the Quebec -Labrador boundary coastline). Archbishop Cnut creates a town called Heilagborg, a town that can only be entered if you are a christian Priest or bishop.
- 1045-9: The pope, hearing that a town is being built of holy people, sends a convoy with 100 holy workers, marble, and holy scriptures and paintings. The centre of town is created with a massive cathedral, next to a palace where Cnut will live.
1050s[]
- 1050: The centre of town is completed. The Holy council move to the new capital of Heilagborg.
- 1051: Archbishop Cnut dies, aged 81. Bolad becomes the new Archbishop. Mammatuk’s harbour opens, now receiving trade from much of the European world, as far as the Byzantine Empire.
- 1052: Bishops from all over the world have come to Heilagborg to see the holy town.The beautiful marble city is raved as one of the wonders of the world. Although it is the capital, it has a very low population, with only 75 full time occupants, who work in churches across Nyrland, Leifsbúðir is still the centre of the country. This is where the main port is for trading, and where he majority of Nyrlands occupants live.
- 1055: The Holy Council has not left Heilagborg in 5 years. The people of Nyrland are becoming increasingly suspicious the this town does not exit and that they have left, yet no one is allowed to travel to their as their is only one port that goes to the town, guarded heavily.
- 1058: Archbishop Bolad dies. Ex-king Otkel becomes Archbishop and moves back into the great hall in Leifsbúðir, but still travelling to Heilagborg every day for morning sermon.
- 1059: The town of Mammatuk claims some land north of Nyrland, becoming a country, led by a democratically appointed mayor. Natives in Labrador are stuck between sticking to their own beliefs of travelling or joining many of their folk in this point European town. Many chose to stay, but many other decide to stay travelling, and over time build up quite a hatred for this town ruing the natural order that they have been living by for the last hundreds of years.
1060s[]
- 1060: Population reaches 50,000. Fishing becomes suddenly popular in the southeast, as many fishing villages pop up out of nowhere. Natives are distraught at the efficiency at which fish is being caught.
- 1063: A group of norsemen from Normandy, in the North of France, hear about this wonderful new country, the legends making seem like a place brimming with wine and food. A large number of the so-called normans settle in the south of the country, in a town the call Hougueton, after the hill it is on.
- 1066: William the Conquered is killed at the battle of Hastings. The anglo-saxon people of England raid Normandy, and take its as their own.
- 1067: The Holy Council, unaware of the goings on in their country since they moved to Heilagborg, realise that their country is becoming an anarchy, so ask the new Norman soldiers to form a police service in exchange for Hougeton to be built strongly by their builders.
- 1068: The Warriors of God are formed, a Norse-Norman hybrid force that makes everyone in Nyrland follow the strict laws placed by the Holy Council. The defeated normans from England move into Nyrland, but seeing it is a tyrannical dictatorship, move to the Republic of Mammatuk, where they are welcomed as tradesmen or guards.
1070s[]
- 1070: 24 Men and women are arrested, trying to sneak to Mammatuk through the newly named north territory. They are all drowned by the Warriors of God, under the orders of archbishop Otlek. The Great Hall in Leifsbúðir is torn down in anger from the people, and Otlek moves back to Heilaborg.
- 1073: Natives attack Heilaborg, killing 3 priests and stealing some gold. The Holy council rule that the area should now be protected by Warriors of God. In retaliation, The army strikes into a large area south and west of Heilaborg, scattering the natives and allowing new immigrants to move into these areas, although Heilaborg is still inaccessible to the public. They name this new land New Normandy, after the normans who conquered it.
- 1075: A commoner sneaks into Heilaborg, and stays the night in the cathedral. He is caught in the morning and is sentenced death by torture. He is tortured for 3 straight days, without sleep, before he eventually dies. The public is outraged, and there are calls to abolish the theocracy through revolution.
- 1076: Leif Ericsson’s nephew, the cousin of Archbishop Otlek, visits from Greenland. He is outraged at what he sees, and so he raises a revolution in Leifsbúðir. The people march to Heilaborg, but are intercepted by the Warriors of god about 4 miles of her destination. The Warriors of God ride through he mob, slaughtering them left and right. Harald, the starter of the revolution, leads the people to a surprising victory as the army of Mammatuk ride down to help their allies in Nyrland. Harald then rides to Heilaborg, kidnaps the 6 members of the Holy council, and imprisons them in the Cathedral until he makes a decision of what to be done
- 1077: King Harald is coronated by the new Archbishop, now an advisory role. He builds a castle just on the outskirts of Leifsbúðir, as he believes that Heilaborg is cursed with wickedness. After threats of excommunication, King Harald sends the Holy Council to Rome to live the remainder of their lives there
- 1079: King Harald restarts the wine industry, cutting down swaths of forests to build towns and farms. A deal is struck with the city-state of Mammatuk, the traders living there will take the wine that Nyrland produce and sell it in Europe. Cnut's 45 laws are abolished, making alcohol legal again and making the death penalty only legal for murder.
1080s[]
- 1080: Otlek dies in Rome.
- 1085: Small native attack on some farms in the west, quickly take care of without any effort. Many of the native groups in the area of Nyrland flee south, after vicious raids by Harald and his armies.
- 1088: Great Norse explorer Sivert Hansson is born. The population continues to rise as temperatures fall in the Nordic countries.
- 1089: King Harald wife gives birth to his fifth child, his only son, Bjarke. England invades Scotland and wins, renaming the country the Kingdom of Britannia.
1090s[]
- 1090: Mammatuk and Nyrland now have a land boundary after territory increases from both sides. A pact between the two countries is discussed and signed, meaning that now both countries are now allies, and therefore cannot attack the other. The wine trade flourished once more, wine from Nyrand is now shipped out to far off lands in the Middle East, and rumours have it some have even reached the Chinese, on the other side of the world
- 1091: In retaliation for the treaty they just signed, a group o Native hunters sneak into Mammatuk at night, and slaughter the mayor in his sleep. the newly elected mayor, A native American himself, orders the hunting down of nearby groups. They all flee west or north, and Mammatuk signs another real with Nyrland for protection.
- 1095: Word reaches King Harald that Pope Urban II had issued catholic countries to retake the holy land. King Harald, on his deathbed, tells the Warriors of God to go and fight for Nyrland.
- 1096: King Harald dies. His body is buried in Heilaborg. Not wanting a repeat of what happened to Otlek, Bjarke Haraldsson is crowned King Bjarke I, aged only 7. The Feudal system is introduced, and a council of noble is created to rule the country until Bjarke turn 15.
- 1097: The Warriors of God reach Jerusalem and discover it already been taken. As they had made the journey all the way there, they asked the crusaders at Jerusalem what they should do. The crusaders, laughing at such a small army of basic Norsemen, jokingly told them to capture Acre. The 5000 Norsemen launched a surprise attack on the city, killing the leader and silently slaughtering most of the city guards in the dark, come boring, the population woke up to Norse rule.