|
1900 BC |
1900-1300 BC The Hittite
Empire |
|
1250 BC |
The Trojan War fought between
the armies of Troy (in Turkey) and Achaea (Greece) |
|
1200 |
1200-600 BC Phrygian kingdom
of Mithridates. King Midas and King Croesus are
notable monarchs
|
|
547 BC |
Cyrus of Persia invades and
conquers most of Anatolia (Turkey) |
|
334 BC |
Alexander the Great of Macedon
marches through Anatolia on his way to India |
|
129 BC |
Anatolia becomes the Roman
Province of Asia ('Asia Minor') |
|
330 AD |
Emperor Constantine the Great
dedicates Constantinople as the 'New Rome |
|
527 |
527-565 Reign of Byzantine
emperor Justinian |
|
|
1000s-1200s - Crusader armies
cross Anatolia |
|
1288 |
Foundation of the Ottoman
Empire by the warrior Osman which eventually rules
North Africa, most of Eastern Europe and all of the
Middle East
|
|
1453 |
Conquest of Constantinople
(Istanbul) by Sultan Mehmet II 'the Conqueror' |
|
1520 |
1520-1566 Golden Age of the
Ottoman Empire with the reign of Sultan Suleyman the
Magnificent |
|
1683 |
1683-1697 Austro-Ottoman war
in which the Ottoman side was defeated signifying
the decline of the Ottoman Empire
|
|
1682 |
1682-1725 Peter the Great
initiates Russo-Turkish rivalry |
|
1854 |
Crimean war - Tsar Nicholas I
of Russia moved troops into Rumania, then part of
the Ottoman Turkish empire. His fleet then destroyed
a Turkish flotilla off Sinope in the Black Sea. The
Russians were defeated by the British and French
with the Ottomans
|
|
1909 |
Abdul Hamid, the last of the
Ottoman sultans is deposed |
|
1914 |
1914-1918 Turkey allies with
Germany in the first world war |
|
1939 |
1939-1945 Turkey remains
neutral during World War II |
