1000 in Norway

Incumbents

• Monarch - Olaf I Tryggvason then Sweyn Forkbeard

  Events

• Leif Ericson lands in North America, calling it Vinland. This journey became the first European journey in which the continents of the Americas were discovered by European inhabitants, many years before the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus.
• September 9 - Battle of Svolder.

  Deaths

• probable:
• *Olaf Tryggvason, King of Norway.