Saturday, July 17, 2021

Basic timeline of Greece


This post is a basic timeline of Greece. There are 34 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

  • Cycladic culture (3200 - 1050 BC)
  • Minoan civilization (3000 - 1100 BC)
  • Tiryns culture (2200 - 2000 BC)
  • Mycenaean civilization (1750 - 1050 BC)
  • Greek Dark Ages (1100 - 800 BC)
  • Persian Wars (499 - 449 BC)
  • Delian League of city-states formed (477 BC)
  • Peloponnesian War (431 - 405 BC)
  • Macedon unites city-states (346 BC)
  • First Macedonian War (212 - 205 BC)
  • Second Macedonian War (198 - 197 BC)
  • Rome annexes Greece (146 BC)
  • Byzantine Empire (395-1453)
  • Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)
  • Ottoman Empire occupation of Greece (1821-1822)
  • First Hellenic Republic (1822-1832)
  • Kingdom of Greece (1832-1924, 1935-1941, 1944-1973)
  • Goudi coup Coup (1909)
  • Balkan Wars (1912-1913)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Invasion of Smyrna (1919-1922)
  • Second Hellenic Republic (1924-1935)
  • Kingdom of Greece (1835-1941)
  • World War I (1939-1945)
  • Greco-Italian War (1940-1941)
  • German occupation of Greece (1941-1944)
  • Hellenic State (1941-1944)
  • Greek Civil wars (1943-1949)
  • Kingdom of Greece (1944-1973)
  • Military junta (1967-1974)
  • Third Hellenic Republic (1974 - now)
  • Cypriot coup d'état (1974)
  • Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
  • Greek government debt crisis (2009 - now)

(This post includes any nation or civilization that occupied at least a portion of Greece at some point. Unless specified otherwise, the dates correspond to when a nation or civilization existed, but do not necessarily correspond to occupation of Greece.)