Timeline of The Faroe Islands - 1400s

1400s

  • around 1400 - The Althing is renamed into Løgting. This name is still in use today.
  • around 1447 - Attempts by the bishop Goswin of Iceland, to get the Faroes under his diocese, fail.
  • 1490 - Dutch tradesmen get the same privileges in the Faroe business as the Hanseatic League.

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