930 Institution

Foundation of the Althing

Name: Foundation of the Althing
Start: 0930

At Þingvellir the world’s oldest still-functioning parliament is born.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 930 — the context national timelines leave out.

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Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Early Middle Ages 476 – 1000 Post-Roman kingdoms, Christianisation, invasions.

What was written of it

Europe is moving towards a goal it does not yet know, but whose pull it feels: the association of free and equal peoples.

Giuseppe Mazzini 1835

Faith and the Future

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