Crete: Timeline

823   Crete is conquered from the Byzantines Byzantine Empire

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 by the Saracens.

951   The Arab Arab

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ic occupation of Crete comes to an end.

960   Nicephorus II captures Crete

961   Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire

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 recaptures Crete from Muslim control

1089   Byzantine Byzantine Empire

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 conquest of Crete

1263   Genoa Genoa

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 captures the city of Chania on Crete from the Venetians Republic of Venice

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1363   Uprising against the Venetian Venetian

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 rulers in Crete.

1365   Failed revolt against the Venetian Venetian

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 rulers in Crete.

1669   Ottoman Ottoman Empire

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 Turks take Candia, the Venetians lose Crete

1669   Francois de Vendome, Duke of Beaufort, disappears during a battle in a siege of Candia in Crete

1824   Egyptians capture Crete.

1900   Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land on which the ruins of Knossos on Crete reside, for further excavation.

1900   King George of Greece George I of Greece

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 becomes absolute monarch of Crete

1913   Greece Greece

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 annexes Crete

1941   World War II: Greece capitulates. British troops withdraw to Crete.

1941   World War II: Battle of Crete - Germany Germany

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 launches airborne invasion of Crete.

1941   World War II: Allies Allies

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 evacuate Crete.

1966   The Typaldos Line's ferry ''Heraklion'' sinks in rough seas, in the Aegean Sea Aegean Sea

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 near Crete - 217 dead.