Alex Peek blog

List of posts    Blog archive    About

Saturday, August 7, 2021

Basic timeline of Monaco

This post is a basic timeline of Monaco. There are 20 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (30,000 years ago)
• Ligurian culture (Pre-Roman era)
• Phoenicians arrive (Pre-Roman era)
• Gallic Wars (58 - 50 BC)
• Rome annexes Monaco (50 BC)
• Ostrogothic kingdom (469 - 553 AD)
• Rome recaptures Monaco (6th century AD)
• Lombards conquers Monaco (7th century AD)
• Frankish rule of Monaco (Pre-Holy Roman Empire)
• Republic of Genoa (11th century - 1797)
• Holy Roman Empire annexes Monaco (1191)
• House of Grimaldi (1160 - now)
• Francesco Grimaldi seizes the Rock of Monaco (1297)
• Sardinia kingdom occupies Monaco (1814-1860)
• Monegasque Revolution (1910)
• Monaco succession crisis (1918)
• France agrees to protect Monaco (1918)
• Italy invades Monaco (1942)
• Germany occupies Monaco (1943-1944)
• Revised treaty with France (2002)

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