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Monday, August 2, 2021

Basic timeline of Malta

This post is a basic timeline of Malta. There are 22 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First inhabitants (5900 BC)
• Phoenicians arrive (8th century BC)
• Carthage annexes Malta (6th century BC)
• First Punic War (263 - 241 BC)
• Second Punic War (218 - 201 BC)
• Rome annexes Malta (218 BC)
• Byzantine annexes Malta (6th century AD)
• Aghlabid dynasty (800 - 909 AD)
• Siege of Melite (870 AD)
• Norman invasion of Malta (1091)
• Sicily kingdom (1130-1816)
• Spanish Crown of Aragon (1162-1716)
• Hospitaller Malta (1530-1798)
• Great Siege of Malta (1565)
• France occupies Malta (1798-1800)
• Siege of Malta (1798-1800)
• Britain occupies Malta (1800-1964)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Siege of Malta (1940-1942)
• Malta gains independence (1964)
• Malta joins the European Union (2004)

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