Turkish Timeline
A QUICK LOOK AT HISTORY OF ANATOLIA / TURKEY
| 12000 – 7000 | BC | Cave dwellings at Karain and Belba |
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| 7500 | BC | Early Stone Age, first known human settlement at Çatal Höyük near Konya;earliest agriculture |
| 5000 | BC | Stone and Copper Age; settlement at Hacılar; earliest known religious pottery and frescoes in Anatolia. |
| 3000 | BC | First settlement at Troy |
| 2600-1900 | BC | Old Bronze Age; Proto-Hittite Empire in central and south eastern Anatolia |
| 1900-1300 | BC | Hittite Empire, wars with Egypt; Prophet Abraham departs from Harran, near Şanlı Urfa, for Canaan. |
| 1185 | BC | Legendary Trojan War |
| 1200- 600 | BC | Phrygian and Mysian invasions followed by the great period
of Hellenic civilisation, Yassı Höyük settlement flourishes;
King Midas and King Croesu reign; coinage is invented; Kingdoms of lonia,Lycia,Lydia,Caria,Pamphylia flourish; Empire of Urartu expands in eastern Anatolia. |
| 546 | BC | Cyrus of Persia invades Anatolia |
| 334 | BC | Alexander the Great from Macedon conquers Anatolia |
| 279 | BC | Celts (or Gauls) invade and found Galatia near Ankara |
| 250 -133 | BC | Rise of the Kingdom of Pergamon (Bergama) |
| 129 | BC | Rome establishes the Province of Asia (“Asia Minor”) with its capital at Ephesus (near Izmir) |
| 47 – 57 | AD | St.Paul’s journeys in Anaolia |
| 330 | AD | Constantine dedicates the “New Rome” of Constantinople and the centre of the Roman Empire moves to the Bosphorus |
| 527 – 565 | Reign of Justinian, greatest Byzantine emperor; construction of Haghia Sophia,greatest church in the world | |
| 570 – 622 | Muhammed’s birth; revelation of the Koran; flight (hijra) to Medina | |
| 1037 -1109 | Empire of the Great Seljuk Turks based in Persia | |
| 1071 -1243 | Seljuk Sultanate of Rum based in Konya; life and work of Jelaleddin Rumi (Mevlana), founder of the Whirling Dervishes | |
| 1000s -1200s | Age of Crusades | |
| 1288 (1299) | Founding , near Bursa, of the Ottoman Empire | |
| 1453 | Conquest of Constantinople by Mehmer II | |
| 1520 – 1566 | Reign of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, the great age of the Ottomans; most of North Africa and Eastern Europe and all of the Middle East controlled from Istanbul; Ottoman navies patrol the Mediterranean and Red Seas and Indian Ocean. | |
| 1876 - 1909 | Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid, last of the powerful sultans, European powers struggle to grab Ottoman territory as the empire collapses | |
| 1914 - 1918 | Ottoman Empire, allied with Germany, defeated in World WarI; parts of Anatolia occupied by Allied armies | |
| 1919 - 1922 | Turkish War of Independence; foreign armies pushed out by Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk); sultanate abolished | |
| 1923 | Proclamation of the Turkish Republic | |
| 1925 - 1938 | Ataturk’s reforms transform Turkey into a modern, westernoriented
republic; first woman appointed to the Turkish
Republic Death of M. K. Ataturk, founding father of contemporary Turkey |
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| 1939 | Turkey remains neutral during World War II Turkish troops make a strong contribution to United Nations forces in the Korean War | |
| 1991 | Mrs.Tansu Çiller becomes Turkey’s first female prime minister
75th Aniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic
Turkey stands firm against international terorism,catches the
terrorist leader and puts him under trial in front of the international media and observers. Worst earthquake in Turkey with severe casualties |
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| 2000 - 2001 | September 11 terrorism considerably affects Turkey’s economy with sharp decrease in tourism revenues. | |
| 2002 | Turkey ranks 3rd in football in World Championship. Turkey’s national basketball team qualifies for World Championship for the first time. | |
| 2003 | Women’s National Volleyball Team ranks 2nd in European Championship. | |
| 2004 | EU officially decides to start negotiations on Turkey’s full membership to EU | |
| 2005 | Turkey modifies laws radically in her expectation to become a full member of EU.Turkish Government decides for denomination on Turkish Lira and six zeroes are removed from new bank notes. Turkey hosted the final match for European footbal championship and Universiade summer olympics. | |
| 2006 | Pope Benedict XVI visits Turkey. | |
| 2008 | Turkey is semi-finalist in European football championship | |
| 2009 | Turkey hosts World Ice Hockey championship | |
| 2010 | Istanbul is selected to be European Capital of Culture. Turkey hosts FIBA Basketbal World championship. | |
| 2010 | The Year of Japan to be commemorated ın Turkey | |
| 2011 | Universiade 2011 Winter Olympics to be held in Erzurum, Turkey. |