| c.
8,500 - 8,000 BC |
Hunter
Gatherers |
| 7,000
- 5,300 BC |
The
first settlers: the Khirokitians. |
| 4,000
- 2,500 BC |
Chalcolitic
(Copper) Age: stone crucifix pendants are carved. |
| 2,700-1,600
BC |
Cypriot Bronze Ages, Early and Middle: cattle, horses, and bronze
making are introduced as well as highly indi- vidualpottery style.
|
| 1,600-1,050
BC |
The
Late Bronze Age: period of sophisticated literate city states such
as Enkomi-Alasia and Kition. |
| 1500
- 1450 BC |
Hittite
rule in Cyprus |
| 1450
- 1200 BC |
Beginning
of the Egyptian domination of the island. |
|
1200 - 1000 BC |
Establishment
of the city states of Salamis (capital at the time), Soli, Marion,
Paphos, Kurium, and Kyrenia; arrival of Greek colonies. |
| 1,000
- 850 BC |
The coming of Iron, the Dorians and a Dark Age also known as Cypro-Geometric
I and II. |
| 850
- 750 BC |
The
Phonecian-led Renaissance |
| 750
- 612 BC |
Assyrian
rule of Cyprus; The golden age of Archaic Cyprus when the island
was divided between a dozen city kingdoms. |
| 568
- 525 BC |
Egyptian
rule. |
| 525
- 333 BC |
Persian
occupation and the rule of the island; also termed as the Cypro-Classical
period and the duel between Kition and Salamis. |
| 333
- 58 BC |
Hellenistic
rule: the heirs of the Alexander the Great rule the island. |
| 58
- 395 AD |
Roman
Empire ruling Cyprus: 350 years of quiet provincial prosperity.
|
| 395
- 649 AD |
Island becomes a part of the Byzantine Empire when Cyprus is gradually
converted from paganism to Orthodox Christianity. |
| 649
- 965 AD |
A
second Dark Age: the island is caught on the frontier between the
two warring empired of Byzantium and Islam. |
| 965
- 1191 AD |
Return
of the island to Byzantium. |
| 1191
- 1192 |
Rule
of the island by Richard the Lionheart, of England. |
| 1192
- 1489 |
Rule
of the island by the Frankish Lusignan dynasty. |
| 1489
- 1570 |
Venetian domination of the island. |
| 1571
- 1878 |
Conquest
of the island by the Ottoman Empire. |
| 1878
- 1925 |
In
accordance with a defence-alliance between Britain and the Ottoman
Empire, the administration of Cyprus passes to Britain. |
|
1925 - 1960 |
Cyprus
is annexed by Britain when Ottoman Empire enters into the World
War I on the side of Germany; subsequently the island becomes a
British Crown colony and under the British rule. |
| 1960 |
Foundation of the Republic of Cyprus (by the Turkish and Greel Cypriot
communities). |
| 1963 |
Inter-communal
strife in Cyprus and the subsequent collapse of the constitutional
rule. |
| 1974 |
Coup
d'etat by the Greek army officers stationed on the island to overthrow
the President (Makarios) with the aim of uniting the island with
Greece; subsequent Turkish Military intervention (under the provisions
of the Treaty of Guarantee of the Republic of Cyprus). |
| 1974 |
Division
of the island into Turkish-Cypriot North and Greek-Cypriot South;
Declaration of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus, to pave way
for a federal settlement on the island. |
| November
15, 1983 |
Foundation
of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. |
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