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1263: Greenland then becomes crown dependency of Norway. 1355: In 1355 union king Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway (Magnus VII of Norway; The Swedish king had been crowned king of Norway through birthright) sent a ship (or ships) to Greenland to inspect its Western and Eastern Settlements. Sailors found settlements entirely Norse and Christian.
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Beginning in the late-13th century, laws required all ships from Greenland to sail directly to Norway. The climate became increasingly colder in the 14th and 15th centuries, during the period of colder weather known as the Little Ice Age. In 1126 the Roman Catholic Church founded a diocese at Garðar (now Igaliku).
While Greenland is currently not for sale, the U.S. has purchased land and territories from other countries in the past. ... Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1900, and in 1959, it became the 50th ...
Norsk Data, a manufacturer of minicomputers, became Norway's second largest company by 1985, [158] just to go bankrupt by 1993. [159] Unemployment reached record-high levels in the early 1990s. [160] By 1990, Norway was Europe's largest oil producer and by 1995 it was the world's second-largest oil exporter. [144]
He had reopened Greenland's link with Northern Europe in the early 1700s and laid the groundwork for the establishment of Denmark's proudest colonial possession. One day in the late 1970s, the ...
The History Channel's original logo used from January 1, 1995, to February 15, 2008, with the slogan "Where the past comes alive." In the station's early years, the red background was not there, and later it sometimes appeared blue (in documentaries), light green (in biographies), purple (in sitcoms), yellow (in reality shows), or orange (in short form content) instead of red.
When the union between the crowns of Denmark and Norway dissolved in 1814, the Treaty of Kiel assigned Norway's former colonies, including Greenland, to the Danish monarch. In July 1931, Norway occupied the then-uninhabited eastern Greenland, naming it Erik the Red's Land , on the basis that it was terra nullius .