1456 Omar Pasha occupies Athens
1458 Sultan Mehmet II, the Conqueror, visits Athens
1466 Venetians briefly sieze Athens
1645 Explosion of gunpowder on the Acropolis destroys the Propylaea and damages the Parthenon
1658 French Capuchin friars arrive
1686 Turks destroy Temple of Nike on Acropolis
1688 Venetians evacuate Athens, population flees
1687 Venetian admiral Morosini destroys the Parthenon and occupies Athens
1690 Turks and Greeks return to Athens
1759 Tzisdarakis builds mosque in Monastiraki
1775 Ali Hadji Haseki becomes lord of Athens
1778 Ali Hadji Haseki builds city wall
1795 Ali Hadji Haseki finally deposed
1801 Lord Elgin begins removing Parthenon sculptures
1810-11 Lord Byron in Athens
1821-27 War of Independence
1821 Greeks fail to take Acropolis
1822 Greeks under Androutsos take Acropolis
1826 Turks under Kutahya Pasha beseige and take Acropolis
1832 Convention of London establishes independent Greece with Bavarian Prince Otho as king
1833 Turkish garrison evacuates Acropolis;
1833- Othonian Athens
1833 Athens becomes capital of Greece
1834 Rebuilding of Athens and excavations on the Acropolis begin
1843 King Otho forced to grant a constitution
1863-1913 Georgian Athens
1863 William of Denmark becomes KingGeorge I of Greece
1870 The Dilessi Incident
1893 Opening of Corinth Canal stimulates growth of Piraeus
1896 First modern Olympic Games held in Athens
1897 War between Greece and Turkey
1898 Restoration of the Parthenon begins
1902 Electric street lighting introduced
1905 Prime Minister Deligiannis assassinated
1912 First Balkan War
1913 Second Balkan War; King George assassinated, succeded by Constantine
1914-18 First World War
1916 Greek railways linked to European system
1917 Constantine forced from the throne, replaced by Alexander; Greece eneters the war on the side of the Allies
1919-1940 Inter-War Years
1919 Return of King Alexander; Greek army lands in Smyrna, begins occupation of Anatolia
1922-3 Asia Minor Catastrophe; arrival of refugees
1928 Psychiko founded
1929 Nea Kifissia founded
1938 Electrification of Piraeus Kifissia railway
1940-44 War and Occupation
1940 Greece invaded by Italy
1941 Metaxas dies; Allied troops land; General Tsolakoglou surrenders; German Occupation
1941-2 Winter famine
1944 Liberation
1944-49 Civil War
1944 Civil strife in Athens
1945 Varkiza Agreement; “White Terror”
1946 Resumption of civil war; referendum on monarchy
1947 British withdrawal; Truman Doctrine propounded
1949 Marshall Papagos given virtually dictatorial powers
1949-67 The Illusory Democracy
1950 Greece a member of NATO
1952 Papagos elected prime minister
1967-74 Dictatorship of the Colonels
1973 Massacre at the Polytechnic University
1974 Return of Karamanlis
1981 Greece becomes a member state of the European Community
1985 New restoration of the Parthenon begins
2000 Athens Metro and Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport at Spata opened
2004 Second Athens Olympic Games held successfully
2008 The year of scandals
2010 Greece forced to accept EU and IMF tutlage to escape bankruptcy
