History Of Greece Timeline

History of Greece Timeline

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		Ancient Greece Timeline
	1054	The Great Schism of 1054: Terminal crisis between the Greek speaking Eastern of the Byzantine empire and the Latin speaking Western empires within the Christian Church reached a terminal crisis and led to the development of the modern Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches
	1071	Byzantine army is destroyed by Turks
	1095	Emperor Alexius I sent an embassy to Pope Urban II regarding the atrocities in Jerusalem and the growing threat of the Turks to Constantinople and the whole of Europe. Peter the Hermit lead ordinary people in the 'People's Crusade' - most were unarmed
	1096	August: Emperor Alexius I shipped the Peoples Crusade over the Bosphorus October: The Peoples Crusade were annihilated by the Turks in Anatolia Armed forces gathered at Constantinople to embark on the First Crusade
	1097	May – June: Siege of Nicacea July: Battle of Dorylaeum Oct 1097 - June 1098: The Siege of Antioch
	1099	First Crusade . Jerusalem is re-taken from the Muslims on the urging of Pope Urban II. The start of antagonisms between Greeks and Crusaders
	1118	The Knights Templar founded to protect Jerusalem and European pilgrims on their journey to the city 1118 to 1143 Reign of John II Comnenus
	1143	1143 to 1183: Reign of Manuel I Comnenus
	1147	Second Crusade led by Holy Roman Emperor Conrad III and by King Louis VII of France
	1183	1183 to 1185 Reign of Andronicus I Comnenus
	1185	1185 to 1195 Reign of Isaac II Angelus The Normans take Thessaloniki
	1190	Third Crusade 3rd Crusade led by Richard the Lionheart of England, Philip II of France, and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I. Saladin manages to unite the Muslim world and recapture Jerusalem, sparking the fourth Crusade
	1191	Cyprus taken from Byzantines by English King Richard I
	1195	1195 to 1203 Reign of Alexius III
	1198	King Richard of England sells Cyprus to Frankish crusaders
	1200	Fourth Crusade and the French/Flemish advanced on Constantinople but the Christians fail to recapture Jerusalem
	1207	Marco Sandolo founded the Duchy of Naxos
	1212	The Children's Crusade led by a French peasant boy, Stephen of Cloyes
	1217	1217 to 1219: Reign of Empress Yolande of Constantinople
	1219	1219 to 1228 Reign of Robert of Constantinople
	1222	1222 to 1254 Reign of John III Ducas Vatatzes in Nikaia
	1212	The Children's Crusade led by a French peasant boy, Stephen of Cloyes
	1246	The Empire of Thessalonika falls
	1261	Reconquest of Constantinople by Michael VIII Palaiologos
	1270	Other minor crusades follow but the armies still fail to capture Jerusalem
	1348	The Black Death ravages Europe for the first of many times. An estimated one third of the population is thought to have perished within the first year
	1387	The Ionian Islands come under Venetian rule
	1453	Byzantium / Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks
	1538	Crete IS attacked by the pirate Khair-ed-din Barbarossa
	1566	the fall of Chios and the Ottoman Turks take control of all the east Aegean islands
	1626	A famine on the island of Crete reduces the population by a over one fifth
	1797	The Ionian Islands are conquered by France
	1821	Greek revolution and declaration of national independence
	1832	The 17 year old Bavarian prince, Otto, is crowned King of Greece
	1864	Ionian Islands become part of independent Greece
	1878	British rule of Cyprus
	1912	King Constantine leads the Greek army against the Turks in Macedonia to victory
	1912	1912 - 13: The the Balkan Wars
	1913	Crete and the Northeastern Aegean Islands become part of independent Greece
	1914	28 June - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina provoking WW1 1914 -1918 World War I
	1923	Exchange of Greek and Turkish populations (the Greco-Turkish population exchange)
	1939	1939-45 - World War II
	1945	August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

History of Greece Timeline

History of Greece Timeline
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