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the oldest found evidence of habitation is a cave found at karain, Anatolia in fact it was still in lived in untill a few thousand years ago which makes it one of the longest lived in areas on the planet
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the earlist known human coumity at Çatal Höyük which is southwest of Konya
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Cyrus of Persia invades and conquers most of Antolia (Turkey)
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Alexander the Great Marches through Anatolia on his way to India
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the Celts invade and establish the kingdom Galatia near Ankara (The Capital)
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the Kingdom of Pergamum rises as an Anatolian power.
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Anatolia becomes the Roman Province of Asia, with its capital at Ephesus.
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the famous Trojan War is fought between Troy and Greece for control trade through the Dardanelles strait
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the Proto-Hittie Empire thrives in Central Anatlia and the Southeast
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St. Paul traveled to the Jewish and Christian communities in Anatolia
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Emperor Constantine the Great dedicates Constantinople as the 'New Rome,' which becomes the empire's center of government.
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Reign of Justinian, greatest Byzantine emperor, builder of Hagia Sophia, largest and most splendid church in the world.
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Revelation of the Kur'an. Muhammed's 'flight' from Mecca to Medina
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Crusader armies cross Anatolia through the lands of the Seljuk Sultan of Rum, with frequent battles.
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Turkish Empire of the Great Seljuks in Iran.
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Foundation of the Ottoman state by a warrier chieftain named Osman
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Conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmet II 'the Conqueror'.
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Reign of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, the great age of the Ottoman Empire.
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Treaty of Karlowitz, the first time in over 400 years that the Ottomans were decisively defeated and forced to sign a peace treaty as the clear losers. The mighty empire was clearly in decline.
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Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, a ruthless despot who was the last of the powerful sultans.
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The Ottoman Empire enters World War I in alliance with Germany. Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops invade Gallipoli which is successfully defended by Ottoman forces led by Mustafa Kemal. Eventual defeat of the Ottomans, loss of most of the empire's territory, and occupation of parts of Anatolia by victorious foreign troops.
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the Armenian Genocide took place. By the end almost all the Armenian population of Anatolian, Turkey had been killed
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Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) organizes remaining Ottoman military units into an army of resistance, and establishes a government of resistance at Ankara.
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Encouraged by Great Britain, Greece invades Anatolia through Izmir and presses eastward, threatening the fledgling government in Ankara.
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Defeat and explusion of the invading armies. Abolishment of the last vestiges of the Ottoman Empire and Proclamation of the Turkish Republic by Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), its founder and first president. Most ethnic Greeks in Turkey, and ethnic Turks in Greece, migrate to the opposite country.
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equal rights for women, secular government, prohibition of the fez and the veil, substitution of the Latin alphabet for the Arabic, Turkification of city names, everyone adopts a surname, etc.
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Death of Atatürk, continuation of one-party rule.
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Turkey maintains a precarious neutrality during World War II.
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Institution of multi-party democracy.
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Turkey abandons Ataturk's neutralist policy and joins Nato.
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Army coup against ruling Democratic Party
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New constitution establishes two-chamber parliament.
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Association agreement signed with European Economic Community
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Turkish troops invade northern Cyprus.
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Kurdistan Workers' Party launches separatist guerrilla war in southeast.