Skip to content
Ximonic (Simo Räsänen) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Landmark Europe religious

Borgund Stave Church

1180 CE – still standing

Best-preserved of Norway's medieval stave churches, with dragon-head carvings and tiered roofs

See it on the timeline

Wikipedia

The opening of the article, and a way into the rest of it without leaving the site.

Borgund Stave Church on Wikipedia.

Read the article

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–1100 CE)
  2. Norway (1200 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Kalmar Union (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Denmark-Norway (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Kalmar Union (1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Denmark-Norway (1530 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Sweden–Norway (1815 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Defined
  8. Norway (1914 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

See the whole view

Landmark · Europe

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

350 BCE – 1404 CE

Polity · Europe

Ottoman Empire

1299 CE – 1922 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War I

1914 CE – 1918 CE

Trade route · Europe

Venice–Constantinople Route

800 CE – 1600 CE

Landmark · Europe

Butrint

800 BCE – 1800 CE

Polity · Europe

Holy Roman Empire

962 CE – 1806 CE

Conflict · Europe

World War II

1939 CE – 1945 CE

Trade route · Europe

Viking North Atlantic Route

870 CE – 1400 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1180 CE and 2026 CE.

1193 CE Northern Crusades / Baltic Crusades 1194 CE Chartres Cathedral 1200 CE Bruges 1200 CE Lübeck 1200 CE Lisbon

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States) Conflict · East Asia 1467 CE – 1615 CE Ibn Rushd Figure · Al-Andalus / Almohad Empire 1126 CE – 1198 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
Image credits 7 pictures from Wikimedia Commons