1179 The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1314 King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.
1326 Treaty of Novgorod delineates borders between Russia and Norway in Finnmark.
1472 Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland in lieu of a dowry for Margaret of Denmark.
1520 King Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats the Swedes at Lake Åsunden.
1523 Christian II is forced to abdicate as King of Denmark and Norway.
1718 Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
1767 Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, Adresseavisen, is founded and the first edition is published.
1814 Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
1814 Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.
1818 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1818 Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1822 116 people die in the Grue Church fire, the biggest fire disaster in Norway's history.
1860 Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
1894 Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
1903 Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.
1904 Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
1905 Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden, a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1905 Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
1905 Norway becomes independent from Sweden.
1905 Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
1905 The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
1907 Norway adopts female suffrage.
1909 The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1920 Under the terms of the Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1933 Vidkun Quisling and Johan Bernhard Hjort form Nasjonal Samling — the national-socialist party of Norway.
1938 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1939 World War II: The submarine {{HMS|Oxley}} is mistakenly sunk by the submarine {{HMS|Triton|N15|6}} near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
1940 World War II: The United Kingdom and France announce that they have mined Norwegian territorial waters to prevent their use by German supply ships.
1940 World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
1940 The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
1940 World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London
1940 World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
1940 King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
1940 World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1940 World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway.
1943 World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
1943 World War II: German warship ''Scharnhorst'' is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
1944 World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship ''Tirpitz'', with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
1946 Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1959 A fire in a resort hotel in Stalheim (Norway) kills 34 people.
1962 Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.
1971 Government of Trygve Bratteli in Norway.
1972 In a referendum, the people of Norway reject membership of the European Community.
1973 In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in 1972's Munich Olympics Massacre.
1980 The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1989 Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
1990 The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, was ratified for the first time by Norway.
1991 Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father, Olav V.
1993 After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Peace Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
1993 Public unveiling of the Oslo Accords, an Israeli-Palestinian agreement initiated by Norway.
1995 The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
1995 The Norwegian Rocket Incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.
2004 A version of ''The Scream'' and ''Madonna'', two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
2006 Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting ''The Scream'' is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
2007 Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.