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1100 BC The Dorians invade Greece.
664 BC First naval battle in Greek
recorded history, between Corinth and Corcyra.
479 BC The Battle of Plataea in Boeotia
ends the Persian invasions of Greece as the Persian general Mardonius is routed by the Greeks under Pausanias, nephew of the former Spartan King, Leonidas. The Athenian contingent is led by the repatriated Aristides. Mardonius is killed in the battle and the Greeks capture enormous amounts of booty. Thebes is captured shortly thereafter and the Theban collaborators executed by Pausanias.
168 BC Third Macedonian War ends with the Battle of Pydna. Romans
under Lucius Aemilius Paullus (awarded the surname "Macedonicus" for this victory) defeat and capture Perseus of Macedon when he surrendered. This ends the Antigonid dynasty, one of the three successor empires created upon the death of Alexander the Great
, and starts Roman domination of Greece.
31 BC Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony
and Cleopatra
.
10 The Greek
dynasty in Bactria
is extinguished.
67 Nero travels to Greece where he participates in the Olympic Games
and other festivals.
124 During a voyage to Greece, Hadrian is initiated in the ancient rites known as the Eleusinian Mysteries
128 Hadrian begins his inspection of the provinces of Greece, Asia Minor and Egypt
.
396 End of the Visigoth
invasion in Greece.
396 The Eleusinian Mysteries come to an end, as Alaric
destroys the ancient sites in Greece.
579 The Slavs begin to migrate into the Balkans
and Greece.
1249 The city of Mystras, Greece is fortified and a palace is constructed there by William II Villehardouin.
1315 Kos fortress is erected in Greece
1363 Byzantine Empire
wins naval battle over the Ottoman Empire
near Megara, Greece.
1492 Sultan Bayazid II of the Ottoman Empire
, learning about the expulsion of Jews from Spain
, dispatched the Ottoman Navy to bring the Jews safely to Ottoman lands, mainly to the cities of Selanik (currently in Greece) and Izmir
(currently in Turkey
).
1821 Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire
, beginning the Greek War of Independence
.
1822 Greek War of Independence
: Greeks
defeat Ottoman
forces at Thermopylae.
1822 Greek War of Independence
: Nafplion falls to the Greek
rebels.
1827 Greek War of Independence
: Treaty of London between France
, Britain
, and Russia
, to demand that the Turks
agree to an armistice in Greece.
1829 Greece receives autonomy from the Ottoman Empire
. This effectively ends the Greek War of Independence
. Greece continues to seek full independence through diplomatic negotiations with the Empire as well as with Russia
, France
and Britain
.
1830 Greece gains full independence from the Ottoman Empire
as the final result of the Greek War of Independence
. Negotiations for the borders between the two states continue until 1832, under the supervision of Russia
, France
and Britain
.
1830 Greece grants citizenship to Jew
s.
1832 The Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King. Thus begins the History of modern Greece.
1832 Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation - Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence
next July.
1870 Irish
peer Lord Muncaster and his entourage kidnapped in Greece.
1878 Greece declares war on Turkey
.
1888 National library in Athens
, Greece
1910 In Greece, the Military League forces parliament
and George I of Greece
to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
1910 Eleutherios Venizelos becomes prime minister of Greece.
1912 Greek
island of Icana declares independence
(Greece annexes it in November)
1912 First Balkan War ends temporarily - Bulgaria
, Greece, Montenegro
, and Serbia
(the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey
, ending the two-month long war.
1913 Greece annexes Crete
1920 Greece attacks Turkish
troops.
1920 Referendum
in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey
, is signed in Switzerland
by Greece, Bulgaria
and other countries that fought in the First World War
1924 Greece proclaims it is a republic
.
1924 Referendum
in Greece favors the formation of Hellenic Republic.
1926 In Greece, Georgios Kondylis ousts Theodoros Pangalos
1940 Prime minister of Greece, Aleksandros Korizis, shoots himself - initial official explanation is "heart attack"
1940 World War II
: Italy
invades Greece.
1940 World War II: German
leader Adolf Hitler
and Italian
Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini
's disastrous invasion of Greece.
1941 World War II: Germany
invades Yugoslavia
and Greece.
1944 The Creation of the politic Committee of national liberation in Greece.
1944 Civil war
breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between Communists
and royalists.
1946 Greece referendum
supports return of monarchy
1947 Cold War
: In an effort to fight the spread of Communism
, President Harry S. Truman
signs an act implementing the Truman Doctrine. The act granted $400 million in military and economic aid to Turkey
and Greece.
1947 In Greece, General Markos Vafiadis takes over
1948 213 communists executed in Greece.
1949 Civil war
ends in Greece - communist troops surrender
1950 Greece and Yugoslavia
reform diplomatic relations
1951 Female suffrage begins in Greece
1951 NATO
accepts Greece and Turkey
as members
1964 Constantine II
becomes King of Greece.
1964 Greece rejects direct talks with Turkey
over Cyprus
.
1965 King Constantine II of Greece forms a new government in Greece with Prime Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos, in an attempt to end a two-year old political crisis.
1966 Turkey
and Greece intend to start negotiations about the situation in Cyprus
.
1967 Greek
military junta exiles Melina Mercouri.
1967 In the Aspida case in Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2-18 years in prison, accused of treason and intentions of staging a coup.
1967 Greece is taken over by a military dictatorship
led by George Papadopoulos
, forcing King Constantine II
to flee.
1968 A referendum
in Greece gives more power to the military junta.
1971 Greece releases 261 political prisoner
s, 50 of which are sent to internal exile.
1971 A civilian government takes power in Greece.
1971 A Brussels
court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.
1973 The Greek
military junta abolishes the monarchy
and proclaims a republic
.
1973 A student uprising occurs against the military regime in Athens
, Greece.
1973 Greek
Dictator George Papadopoulos
is ousted in a military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis.
1974 Constantine Karamanlis is sworn in as interim Prime Minister of Greece.
1974 Greek
voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
1975 Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens
. The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment
.
1978 A powerful magnitude 6.5 earthquake
hits Thessaloniki
, Greece's second largest city, resulting in the total collapse of an apartment building at the central Ippodromio district and the subsequent death of more than 40 people.
1981 Greece enters the ''European Community
'', which later becomes the European Union
.
1981 Hamas
attacks a travel agency in Greece - two dead.
1996 Costas Simitis
is elected President of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement of Greece.
2003 Olympic Airlines, Greece's new flag carrier, is launched.
2004 The 2004 Summer Paralympics commences in Athens | 
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