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The history of Norwegian state-operated naval forces is long, and goes back to the leidang which was first established by King Håkon the Good at the Gulating in year 955.
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In Norway, encyclopedias follow the unique history of the Norwegian language, the Bokmål variant having branched off from Danish during the 19th century.
These schools were to have a lasting effect on Norwegian Catholic spirituality and history, even after King Christian III of Denmark ordered the Reformation in his kingdom.
Authors of books and articles on the history of Norwegian technology eagerly seized it to make a thin story more substantial.
The period from 800 – 1066 AD is referred to in Norwegian history as the Viking age.
* History of Norway — Overview to Norwegian history.
* Fritz Hodne An economic history of Norway: 1815-1970 ( English language edition superseded by two more recent Norwegian language books ) Tapir 1975 ISBN 82-519-0134-0
The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic poems and skaldic verse of the 9th and 10th centuries with poets such as Bragi Boddason and Eyvindr Skáldaspillir.
He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a detailed history of the Norwegian kings that begins in the legendary Ynglinga saga and continues to document much of early Norwegian history.
The year 1905, when Norway was free from the union with Sweden, marks a new period in the history of Norwegian literature.
* The Norwegian Olympic Museum is the only museum in Northern Europe that shows whole the Olympic history from the ancient times and up to today, including all Summer-and Wintergames.
The history of NR is described in a historic book called " Norsk Regnesentral 1952-2002 " ( in Norwegian ) published in 2002.
Approximately from his accession to the throne, the civil wars period of Norwegian history started, that lasted from 1130 to 1217.
Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter fulfilled a similar function for Norwegian history ; Undset later won a Nobel Prize for Literature ( 1928 ).
In December 1992, in the background of the official Madrid negotiations in London, Israeli vice-minister of foreign affairs Yossi Beilin and Norwegian researcher Terje Rød-Larsen set up a secret meeting for PLO representative Ahmed Qurei and Israeli history professor Yair Hirschfeld.
In 2001, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MFA ) commissioned Waage to produce an official, comprehensive history of the Norwegian-mediated back channel negotiations.
The Royal Norwegian Navy has a history dating back to 955.
Because of this the Royal Norwegian Navy shares its history from 1509 to 1814 with the Royal Danish Navy.
The Royal Norwegian Navy Museum is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Norway's naval history.
This time, the opponents were FK Bodø / Glimt, which made the final match historical, the first time in history two Northern Norwegian clubs would play each other in a cup final.
The Orkneyinga saga ( also called the History of the Earls of Orkney ) is a historical narrative of the history of the Orkney Islands, from their capture by the Norwegian king in the ninth century onwards until about 1200.
The Norwegian Forest Museum is a national museum recognizing the importance of forestry, hunting, and fishing to the Norwegian history and economy.
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The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum is state-operated and shows the history of farming and ranching in New Mexico.
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Sargon is even recorded as having organised naval expeditions to Dilmun ( Bahrein ) and Magan, amongst the first organised military naval expeditions in history.
In his writing he makes mention of a moment when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition: the king smiled at him and said " And where was I, then?
* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
* 1453 – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
" Historian and novelist C. S. Forester, writing in 1929, compared the Nile to the great naval actions in history and concluded that " it still only stands rivalled by Tsu-Shima as an example of the annihilation of one fleet by another of approximately equal material force ".
As an undergraduate, Parkinson developed an interest in naval history, which he pursued when the Pellew family gave him access to family papers at the recently established National Maritime Museum.
The naval history of China was centered more to the south, where mountains, rivers, and large lakes necessitated the employment of a large and well-kept navy.
* 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF. 7 hydroplane.
On the way to the fort, he defeated three ships of the Royal Navy in the Battle of Hudson's Bay, the largest naval battle in the history of the North American Arctic.
After naval studies in England between 1871 and 1878, Togo's role as Chief Admiral of the Grand Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War made him a legend in Japanese military history, and earned him the nickname ' Nelson of the Orient ' in Britain.
On 3 May 1945, one of the biggest disasters in naval history occurred in the Bay of Lübeck when RAF bombers sank three ships-the SS Cap Arcona, the SS Deutschland, and the SS Thielbek-which, unknown to them, were packed with concentration-camp inmates.
The United States had a long history of intervening in Liberia's internal affairs, occasionally sending naval vessels to help the Americo-Liberian ( freed slave ) ruling minority put down insurrections by indigenous tribes ( in 1821, 1843, 1876, 1910, and 1915 ).
The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
* 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U. S. Third and U. S. Seventh Fleets.
* 1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
* 1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
However, his naval forces had a history of failure against the Romans.
Roosevelt had always been fascinated by naval history.
* The Battle of Lake Poyang, a naval conflict between Chinese rebel groups led by Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang, took place in August to October of 1363, and was one of the largest naval battles in history.
* May 8 – WWII: The Battle of the Coral Sea ( first battle in naval history where 2 enemy fleets fight without seeing each other's fleets ) ends in an Allied victory.
* 1132: The Southern Song Dynasty establishes China's first permanent standing navy, although China had a long naval history prior.
** WWII: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto naval base.
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