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Erik the Red founds the Norse colony
Erik the Red, exiled from Iceland, led settlers to south-west Greenland and established the Eastern and Western Settlements, the first European colony on the island.
Era: Erik the Red and the Norse Colony
Sources: Erik the Red, Norse explorer · Encyclopædia Britannica, Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Colonisation in the 10th century
One event in the Terralore archive falls in the 10th century, tagged colonisation — the establishment, administration and ending of colonial rule. It keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
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Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.