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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.)