The goal of this global chronology of the most important protest events in 1968 is to establish an empirical standard; a yard stick on the background of which it is possible to assess the extent and structure of the Norwegian media coverage in 1968. Limited to the events of that year, the chronology is based on a more extensive log of protest events in Europe from the late 1950s and early 1970s included in an online research- and study guide that accompanies 1968 in Europe.