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Circumpolar Chronology:
200,000,000 BP - 899 AD
- 200,000,000 BP
- - None of what is now Alaska or southwestern Yukon existed. Since then, dozen of terranes (pieces of the earth's crust) have "docked" against the main body of North America to form the present land.
- 25,000 - 12,000 BP
- - Lower sea levels caused by the Ice Age create a land bridge, now known as Beringia, between Asia and North America.
- 24,000 BP
- - The first humans arrive in North America from Asia (this is still very much a subject of controversy).
- 620 AD
- - "Northmen" (Vikings) invade Ireland
- 792
- - Northmen attack the English island monastery of Lindesfarne; start of Viking era in Britain
- 795
- - Northmen land in Ireland
- 800
- - Northmen reach Iceland
- - Northmen discover Faroe Islands
- 802
- - Northmen dominate Ireland
- 806
- - Monastery of Iona sacked by Northmen
- 841
- - Northmen plunder Rouen and advance to Paris
- 845
- - Northmen destroy Hamburg and advance further south
- 859
- - Norse pirates enter the Mediterranean and sack the coast to Asia Minor
- 861
- - Northmen sack Paris, Toulouse, etc.
- - Northmen discover Iceland
- 874
- - Northmen settle in Iceland
- 885
- - Northmen beseige Paris
200,000,000 BP - 899 AD
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