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Ionian Islands become part of independent Greece
Greek revolution and declaration of national independence


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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 World War I
1914 -1918
World War I

1923

 

Exchange of Greek and Turkish populations (the Greco-Turkish population exchange)

1939

 

1939-45 - World War 2

1945

 

August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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