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Timeline
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(269 AD) Goths raided islands in Aegean Sea
(324 AD) Constantine the Great founded Byzantium
(393 AD) Theodosius stopped Olympic Games
(395 AD) Roman Empire took control of Aegean Islands
(515 AD) Eathquake destroyed half the cities in eastern Mediterranean including Rhodes; destroyed statue of Colossus
(654 AD) Arabs occupied Rhodes; broke up remains of Colossus and sold bronze for scrap
(1204) First sack of Constantinople; Fourth Crusade
(1387) Ionian Islands brought under Venetian rule
(1453) Constantinople fell to Turks
(1566) Ottoman Turks gained control Aegean Islands
(1626) Famine in Crete killed one-fifth population
(1669) Crete fell to Ottoman Turks
(1797) French began rule of Ionian Islands
(1821) Uprising occurred; Greece declared national independence
(1832) Bavarian prince Otto, named King of Greece
(1834) Athens became capital of Greece
(1912) Dodecanese Islands liberated from Turks; King Constantine defeated Turks in Macedonia
(1911-14) Greece sided with Germany in Balkan Wars
(1913) Crete and Aegean Islands became part of Greece
(1917) King Constantine abdicated first time
(1922) Greek forces defeated in Asia Minor; Greeks who lived on Turkish side of Aegean flooded into Greece; King Constantine abdicated second time
(1924 AD) Greeks voted to abolish monarchy; country became republic; King George II exiled
(1927) Air service began between Athens and islands
(1935) Monarchy restored; King George returned
(1936) General Metaxas appointed prime minister by King; established dictatorship
(1940) Mussolini's forces attacked Greece
(1941) Metaxas died; Germany conquered Greece; famine killed over 100,000; King George fled to Egypt
(1944) Greek and British forces combined, forced Nazi withdrawal; Georgios Papandreou became prime minister; protest demonstration killed 28
(1946-49) Royalist party won elections; restored monarchy; civil war began
(1947) Dodacanese incorporated into Greek state
(1952) Greece declared a parliamentary democracy by new constitution; joined NATO
(1960) British rule of Cyprus ended; became Greek state
(1963) Grigorios Lambrakis, left-wing deputy, murdered in Thessaloniki
(1967) Group of army officers seized control; elections postponed; Col. George Papadopoulos became prime minister
(1973) Monarchy abolished; Greece declared republic
(1974) Turkish army invaded, occupied northern Cyprus
(1996) Greece and Turkey dispute Aegean Islet
(1999) Athens struck by earthquake, dozens killed, thousands homeless
(2000) British diplomat, Brigadier Stephen Saunders, shot in Athens by left-wing group
(2002) Euro replaced drachma; Greece and Turkey agreed to build gas pipeline through Turkey
(2003) Demonstrations took place in Athens during EU summit meetings; Greek coast guard seized ship loaded with explosives; Athens court found leader and hitman of Greek terrorist group guilty, sentenced to prison
(2004) Conservative New Democracy party won general election; bombs exploded outside Athens police station; Athens hosted summer Olympic Games
(2005) Trade unions held strikes; Parliament ratified EU constitution; airline jet crashed - killed 121 people
(2006) Public sector workers held strike; earthquake struck in southern Greece; Greek and Turkish fighter planes collided, crashed into Aegean; Greece wins basketball FIBA World Championship
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