These settlers are believed to have arrived in very substantial numbers and like those who migrated to Iceland and the Faroe Islands it is probable that most came from the west coast of Norway.

* 850 – 875: The first Norse settlers arrive on Iceland.

Ancient Roman coins dating to the 3rd century have been found in Iceland, but it is unknown whether they were brought there at that time, or came later with Viking settlers, having circulated as currency already for centuries.

According to Landnámabók, Iceland was first discovered by Naddoddr, one of the first settlers in the Faroe Islands, who was sailing from Norway to the Faroe Islands, but lost his way and drifted to the east coast of Iceland.

It does say that Iceland was fully settled within 60 years, which likely means that all arable land had been claimed by various settlers.

The reasons for the waves of immigration were complex and bound to the political situation in Scandinavia at that time ; moreover, they occurred when Viking settlers were also establishing their presence in the Hebrides, Orkney, the Faroe Islands, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland, France ( Normandy ), Russia and Ukraine ( see Kievan Rus ').

Erik deliberately gave the land a more appealing name than " Iceland " in order to lure potential settlers.

The first Icelandic immigrant settlement in present-day North Dakota was in Pembina County in the late 1870s, when a colony of settlers from Iceland moved into the county from the New Iceland homesteads near Lake Winnipeg.

Norwegian settlers brought Old West Norse to Iceland and the Faroe islands around 800 AD.

Among Thórolf ’ s descendents, according to legend, came some of the first settlers on Iceland.

In 985 while sailing from Iceland to Greenland with a migration fleet consisting of 400-700 settlers and 25 other ships ( 14 of which completed the journey ), a merchant named Bjarni Herjólfsson was blown off course, and after three days ' sailing he sighted land west of the fleet.

The initial settlers of Iceland were greatly influenced by their Norwegian roots when creating their own form of government.

The Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin first noted in his book Mutual Aid that Norse society, from which the settlers in Iceland came, had various " mutual aid " institutions, including communal land ownership ( based around what he called " the village community ") and a form of social self-administration, the " Thing " – both local and Iceland-wide – which can be considered a " primitive " form of the anarchist communal assembly.

The original grasshouses constructed by the original settlers of Iceland were based on Viking longhouses.

A modern ( 1850 ) depiction of the first medieval settlers arriving in Iceland

Developed from ponies taken to Iceland by Scandinavian settlers in the 9th and 10th centuries, the breed is mentioned in literature and historical records throughout Icelandic history ; the first reference to a named horse appears in the 12th century.

Horses were venerated in Norse mythology, a custom brought to Iceland by the country's earliest settlers.

When these settlers arrived in Iceland, they brought their beliefs, and their horses, with them.

After his expulsion from Iceland Erik the Red discovered Greenland, a name he chose in hope of attracting Icelandic settlers.

The first settlers arrived in Iceland around 900 AD when the edge of the glacier tongue of Breiðamerkurjökull glacier was about further north of the present location.

Landnámabók mentions a Swede named Þórðr knappr who was one of the first settlers in Iceland and whose father was called Björn at Haugi.

Hrafn was one of the first settlers in Iceland and settled on the southern coast, in Rangárvallasýsla ( county of Rángárvellir ).

A good many beef-hungry settlers were accepting the death of William Lewis as proof that the warning notes were not idle threats.

Houses of settlers who'd treated the company herds as a natural resource, free for the taking, were sitting empty, with weeds growing high in their yards.

Selkirk persuaded eighty men and four officers to go to Red River where they were to serve as a military force to protect his settlers from the hostile Northwest Company which resented the intrusion of farmers into the fur traders' empire.

Nevertheless so short was the supply of seed that the settlers were forced to retreat to Fort Daer for food.

Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.

These villages, called pueblos by Spanish settlers, were often only accessible by rope or through rock climbing.

Funds raised from the sale of land were to be used to bring out working class emigrants, who would have to work hard for the monied settlers to ever afford their own land.

While the earlier settlers were primarily of British ancestry, the newer settlers also consisted of Germans, Irish, and African-Americans.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

Phillip went some way towards winning the trust of the Eora, although the settlers were at all times treated extremely warily.

It is in fact likely that, after the region took on the name of its early inhabitants, later settlers were also known by the accepted geographical name.

Some 530 of these individuals were later returned to the islands because of their much-needed expertise in nutmeg cultivation ( something sorely lacking among newly-arrived Dutch settlers ).

European ancestors also include Spanish and Italian seamen who were granted land by the Portuguese Empire, followed by Portuguese settlers, exiles, and Portuguese Jews who were victims of the Inquisition.

In November 1794, ten vessels, which were part of a convoy escorted by HMS Convert, were wrecked on the reef in Gun Bay, on the East end of Grand Cayman, but with the help of local settlers, there was no loss of life.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

The settlement was at Baracoa, but the new settlers were to be greeted with stiff resistance from the local Taíno population.

Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years ' War were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition.

The Fortress has also led to the revival and pride of the Acadian community who were the first settlers along with the Mi ' kmaq.

Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists, including the English Puritans, the French Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ( New York ), and the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the Appalachian back country.

Dutch Calvinist settlers were also the first successful European colonizers of South Africa, beginning in the 17th century, who became known as Boers or Afrikaners.