Chronology
HISTORY OF ANATOLIA IN CHRONOLOGY
| Paleolithic Age (600000-10000BC)
(? – 8000 BC) |
Cave dwellings at Karain, primitive Stone weapons and implements |
| Neolithic Period (8000-5500BC)
(7040 BC) |
Earliest evidence of agriculture in Anatolia, first settlements at Hacilar |
| 6500 – 5500 BC | The first cultural center in Anatolia Catalhoyuk |
| 6200 BC | In Catalhoyuk, earliest landscape painting |
| Chalcolithic Period (5500-3000BC)
5500BC |
Painted pottery and figurines at
Hacilar and Catalhoyuk |
| 5000 – 3000BC | Settlements at Beycesultan, Canhasan, Alacahoyuk, Alisar and Aphrodisias |
| Bronze Age (3000-1200BC) | |
| 3000 – 2500BC | Troy I |
| ? – 2000BC | The Hatti Civilisation |
| 2500 – 2200BC | Troy II |
| 2200 – 2050BC | Troy III |
| 2050 – 1900BC | Troy IV |
| 2000 – 1750BC | Early Hittite Period |
| 1950BC | First written records in Anatolia, Assyrian traders |
| 1900 – 1800BC | Troy V |
| 1800 – 1300BC | Troy VI |
| 1700 – 1450BC | Hittite Kingdom |
| 1450 – 1200BC | Hittite Empire |
| 1300 – 1260BC | Troy VII |
| 1280BC | The first recorded treaty in the world, Treaty of Kadesh between Hittites and Egyptians |
| 1200BC | Fall of Hattusha (Hittites) |
| Iron Age (1200-700BC) | |
| 1200 – 650BC | Neo Hittites |
| 1100 – 100BC | Migration of Ionians to Aegean coasts |
| 860 – 580BC | Urartians |
| 800BC | Panionic League |
| 750 – 300BC | Phrygians |
| The Dark Age (700-490BC) | |
| 680 – 546BC | Lydians |
| 667BC | Foundation of Byzantium |
| 640BC | Use of coinage in Anatolia |
| 600BC | Carians |
| 545 – 533BC | Persian Period |
| Classical Period (479-300BC) | |
| 478BC | Ionians join the Delian Confederacy |
| 356BC | Birth of Alexander the Great |
| 334BC | Alexander the Great defeats the Persians and takes control of Anatolia |
| 323BC | Death of Alexander and the war between Alexander’s successors |
| Hellenistic Period (300-133BC) | |
| 261 – 141BC | Rise of Pergamum |
| 133BC | Rome inherits the Pergamum kingdom |
| The Roman Age (133BC-395AD) | |
| 83BC | End of Seleucid Empire |
| 74BC | Rome inherits Bithynia |
| 40BC | Cleopathra and Antony marry in Antioch |
| 44 – 56AD | First Christian churches in Anatolia |
| 330AD | Christianity in the official religion of the Roman Empire |
| The Byzantine Period (395-1453AD) / Seljuk Turks Period (1071-1243AD) | |
| 395 | Division of the Roman Empire into Western and Eastern (Byzantine Empire) |
| 1040 | Establishment of Seljuk Empire |
| 1071 | Seljuks defeated Byzantines and Turks overrun Anatolia |
| 1096 | Latins enter Anatolia fort he first time, beginning of First Crusade |
| 1203 | The Fourth Crusade, Latins attack Constantinaple |
| 1240 | First apperance of Ottoman Turks in Western Anatolia |
| Ottoman Turks Period (1299-1923) | |
| 1299 | Ottoman principality |
| 1326 – 1362 | Orhan Bey Period, first use of the title ‘Sultan’ |
| 1403 – 1413 | Interregnum in the Empire |
| 1453 May 29 | Sultan Mehmet II conquers Constantinople, which becomes the Ottoman capital Istanbul |
| 1520 – 1566 | Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, zenith of Ottomans |
| The Mediterranean Sea becomes a Turkish lake | |
| 1634 | Murat IV captures Baghdad |
| 1666 – 1812 | Wars between Turks and European powers |
| 1699 – 1792 | Decline of the Ottoman Empire |
| 1718 – 1730 | Tulip Period |
| 1839 – 1876 | The Tanzimat Period, westernazing |
| 1876 – 1909 | Sultan Abdulhamit II |
| 1876 | The first Turkish Parliament is established by young Turks |
| 1877 – 1908 | Autocrasy of Abdulhamit II, Parliament is dissolved |
| 1909 | Abdulhamit II deposed, Young Turks take power |
| 1912 – 1913 | Balkan Wars |
| 1914 | World War I Ottomans are ally of Germany |
| 1919 – 1922 | War of Independence |
| 1923 | Treaty of Lausanne; Turkish Republic is proclamed, Mustafa Kemal ellected president, Ankara is the capital. |
