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Greece History Timeline6500 BC- 5500 BC First farming settlements found in northern Greece.
2200 BC Indo-Europeans enter the mainland and settle in the Peloponnese.
1700 BC The Minoan civilization, reached its height with central power on the isle of Crete.
1200 BC The end of Mycenaean civilization.
1150 BC Troy finally fell to Greece
1100 BC Greece invaded by Dorians. Beginning of Dark Age
1000 BC Ionian immigration to Anatolia
800 BC End of dark age and beginning of Archaic period.
800 BC- 700 BC Aristocratic Republics take place of Monarchies.
776 BC First Olympic games held in Greece
750 BC Greek poet Homer writes Iliad and Odyssey.
650 BC Corinth ruled by the tyrants.
621 BC Draco's code of law
508 BC Cleisthenes ruled Athens and introduced democracy.
490 BC First Persian invasion of Greece, the Battle of Marathon.
480 BC Second Persian invasion of Greece, Spartans are defeated at Thermopylae, Athens is invaded by the Persians.
480 BC The Persians are finally defeated at Salamis.
448 BC Persians and Athenians halt fighting. Peace of Kallas
432 BC The Parthenon in Athens is finished
431 BC Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens. Sparta defeats Athens
404 BC Athenian trade was harmed and democracy was overthrown
371 BC Thebes under Epaminondas defeats Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra
338 BC Philip of Macedon conquered the country
336 BC Alexander the Great takes over the throne of Macedonia and all of Greece
333 BC Alexander defeated Darius, King of Persia, at the battlefield of Issus
332 BC Alexander the Great invaded Egypt
323 BC Alexander died in Persia at Babylon at the age of 32.
197 BC The Romans defeated Macedonians in several battles
146 BC Greece became a part of Roman Empire
324 AD Byzantium (Istanbul) founded by Constantine the Great
455 AD End of Roman Empire
654 AD The Arabs invaded Rhodes
1346 King Stefano's IX of Serbia declared himself czar of Greece.
1460 The Ottomans conquered southern Greece.
1523 Rhodes falls to Ottoman Turks.
1687 Venetians regained control of Athens from the Turks
1821 Greece gained independence from Turkey. March 28
1834 Athens becomes the new capital
1878 British begins to rule Cyprus
1896 The first modern Olympic Games held in Athens
1922 Turkish troops under Mustafa Kemal invaded Smyrna (Izmir)
1923 The exchange of Greek and Turkish populations
1924 Greece becomes republic
1935 Monarchy comes back
1936 General Metaxas appointed prime minister by king, establishes quasi- fascist dictatorship.
1940 Mussolini's attack to Greece from Italian-held Albania is repelled.
1941 Germany invade Greece and King George II and government flee to Egypt
1941 British army evacuates Greece
1944 German army retreated from Athens.
1944 With backing from Britain, Georgios Papandreou is made prime minister.
1946 - 1949 Civil War. Royalist parties win elections and restore monarchy.
1952 General Papagos elected as leader of the government. New constitution announces Greece a parliamentary democracy with a monarch as head of state
1964 King Constantine II comes after his father, Paul.
1967 Colonels took power in a bloodless military coup. George Papadopoulos becomes prime minister.
1973 Greece declared a republic, the monarchy is abolished.
1973 President George Papadopoulos was exiled in a bloodless military coup led by police chief Brigadier Dimitris Ioannides.
1980 Karamanlis elected president.
1993 Papandreou regained power after the elections.
2002 Greece start to use Euro instead of drachma.
2004 Conservative New Democracy party led by Costas Karamanlis wins general election
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