Timeline of Athens
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Athens, Greece.
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Prior to 15th century[edit]
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- 630 BCE - Temple of Athena Polias built (approximate date).[1]
- 594 BCE - Solonian law established.[2]
- 566 BCE - Panathenaic festival begins.[1]
- 560 BCE - Peisistratos in power.[2]
- 486 BCE - Parthenon built.[3]
- 431 BCE - Peloponnesian War begins with Sparta.[4]
- 430 BCE - Plague.[5]
- 424 BCE - Temple of Athena Nike built.[6]
- 409 BCE - Erechtheion built (approximate date).[6]
- 385 BCE - Academy founded (approximate date).[5]
- 335 BCE - Lyceum founded (approximate date).[5]
- 229 BCE - Athens liberated from [Macedon]]ian supremacy, but refuses to join Achaean League.[7]
- 88 BCE - City sacked by Roman forces.[3]
- 267 CE - Agora sacked by Germanic Heruli forces.[5]
- 396 CE - City taken by forces of Visigoth Alaric.[5]
- 580 - City sacked by Slavic forces.[5]
- 1146 - City "plundered by Roger, King of Sicily."[7]
- 1204 - Othon de la Roche of Burgundy becomes Duke of Athens.[5]
- 1311 - City taken by Catalan forces.[7]
15th-19th centuries[edit]
See also: History of Athens § Modern history
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- 1456 - Turks in power.[3]
- 1687 - City besieged by Venetian forces.[5]
- 1801 - Elgin Marbles taken to Britain.[5]
- 1821 - April: Siege of the Acropolis (1821–22) begins.
- 1826 - August: Siege of the Acropolis (1826–27) begins.
- 1829 - National Archaeological Museum established.
- 1833 - City becomes part of the Attica and Boeotia Prefecture administrative division.[citation needed]
- 1834
- City becomes capital of Kingdom of Greece.[5]
- National Library of Greece headquartered in city.
- 1837 - Othonian University[8] and Royal School of Arts established.
- 1840 - Royal Garden planted.
- 1842 - Observatory built.[9]
- 1843
- 3 November: Third of September National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens (el) begins.
- Royal Palace built.
- 1846 - Palace Square laid out.[citation needed]
- 1854 - Occupation of city by British and French forces begins.[7]
- 1856 - Occupation of city by British and French forces ends.[7]
- 1860s - Anafiotika neighborhood settled.[10]
- 1862 - 10 December: Second National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens (el) begins.
- 1869 - Athens and Piraeus Railway in operation.[citation needed]
- 1871 - Athens Conservatoire founded.
- 1874 - German Archaeological Institute at Athens established.[5]
- 1876 - Athens Stock Exchange established.
- 1878 - Hotel Grande Bretagne in business.
- 1881 - American School of Classical Studies at Athens established.[5]
- 1886 - British School at Athens established.[5]
- 1896 - 1896 Summer Olympics held.
- 1899
- City becomes part of the Attica Prefecture administrative division.[citation needed]
- Spyridon Merkouris becomes mayor.
20th century[edit]
See also: Timeline of modern Greek history
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- 1904
- Athens Metro in operation.[citation needed]
- Athens Railway Station opens.
- 1905 - Athens News Agency established.
- 1908 - Panathinaikos A.O. football club formed.
- 1909 - Goudi coup.[4]
- 1916 - 1 December: "Allied and Greek forces clash."[11]
- 1919 - Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry founded.[12]
- 1920
- * Third National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens (el) begins.
- Population: 453,042 metro.[10]
- 1922
- Population increases with war refugees; shantytowns develop.[10]
- To Vima newspaper begins publication.[13]
- Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium opens in Ampelokipoi.
- 1923
- Vradyni newspaper begins publication.[12]
- Fourth National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens (el), convenes.
- 1926 - Academy of Athens founded.
- 1928 - Population: 802,000 metro.[10]
- 1929 - Residential Psychiko suburb developed near city.[10]
- 1930 - National Theatre of Greece and Benaki Museum established.
- 1932 - Residential Filothei suburb developed near city.[10]
- 1935
- October: Fifth National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens held.
- Alexandras Prosfygika housing complex built on Alexandras Avenue.[14]
- 1938 - Airport built.[15]
- 1939 - Greek National Opera established.
- 1940 - Population: 481,225 city; 1,124,109 metro.[9]
- 1941 - 27 April: City occupation by German forces begins.[2]
- 1944
- 14 October: City occupation by German forces ends.[2]
- December: Dekemvriana clashes begin.[8]
- Ta Nea newspaper begins publication.[12]
- 1947 - Star-Cinema opens.[16]
- 1951 - Population: 559,250 city; 1,368,142 metro.[9]
- 1955 - Athens Festival of arts begins.
- 1957
- 1972 - City becomes part of the Athens Prefecture administrative division.
- 1973
- Museum of the City of Athens established.
- Athens Polytechnic uprising.[4]
- 1974 - Eleftherotypia newspaper begins publication.[12]
- 1980 - 31 July: 1980 Turkish embassy attack in Athens.
- 1981 - Ethnos newspaper begins publication.[12]
- 1983 - Eleftheros Typos newspaper begins publication.[12]
- 1987 - Miltiadis Evert becomes mayor.
- 1991 - Athens Concert Hall opens.
- 1994 - City becomes part of the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture administrative division.[citation needed]
- 1995 - Dimitris Avramopoulos becomes mayor.
- 1998 - Kokkalis Foundation headquartered in city.[18]
- 1999 - 7 September: 1999 Athens earthquake.[3]
21st century[edit]
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- 2000 - Ambelokipi metro station, Megaro Moussikis metro station, and Panormou metro station open.
- 2001 - Athens International Airport opens.[5]
- 2003 - Dora Bakoyannis becomes mayor.[19]
- 2004
- Athens Tram begins operating.
- 2004 Summer Olympics and Paralympics held.[3]
- 2008 - December: 2008 Greek riots.[3][20]
- 2009 - Acropolis Museum[21] and Art Foundation[17] open.
- 2010
- July: Journalist Giolias killed.
- November: Muslim demonstration.[22]
- Giorgos Kaminis elected mayor.
- 2011
- Athens Mass Transit System formed.
- Population: 664,046 city; 3,737,550 metro.
- 2012
- 13 February: Protest.[23]
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center construction begins.
- 2013 - Flooding.[24]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Chronological Table". Athens: National Archaeological Museum. Archived from the original on 20 November 2014.
- ^ a b c d Webster's Geographical Dictionary, USA: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 78, OL 5812502M
- ^ a b c d e f "Greece Profile: Timeline". BBC News. Retrieved November 2014.
- ^ a b c Dimitris Keridis (2009). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6312-5.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Michael Llewellyn-Smith (2004). "Chronology". Athens: A Cultural and Literary History. USA: Interlink Books. ISBN 978-1-56656-540-0.
- ^ a b Trudy Ring, ed. (1996). "Athens". Southern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places 3. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 62+. OCLC 31045650.
- ^ a b c d e George Henry Townsend (1867), "Athens", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
- ^ a b Dimitris Keridis (2009). "Athens". Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6312-5.
- ^ a b c Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 116, OL 6112221M
- ^ a b c d e f Lila Leontidou (1990). The Mediterranean City in Transition: Social Change and Urban Development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-34467-8.
- ^ Stephen Pope; Elizabeth-Anne Wheal (1995). "Select Chronology". Dictionary of the First World War. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-85052-979-1.
- ^ a b c d e f "Greece: Directory". Europa World Year Book 2003. Europa Publications. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85743-227-5.
- ^ "Athens (Greece) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved November 2014.
- ^ Stavros Stavrides (2010). "Redefining the right to the city: representations of public space as part of the urban struggles". In Giovanna Sonda et al. Urban Plots, Organizing Cities. Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-0927-4.
- ^ Big dreams and angry protests swirl at abandoned Athens airport, Reuters, 26 June 2014
- ^ a b "Movie Theaters in Athens". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved November 2014.
- ^ a b "Greece". Art Spaces Directory. New York: New Museum. Retrieved November 2014.
- ^ "Organizations". International Relations and Security Network. Switzerland: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Retrieved November 2014.
- ^ "New Athens Mayor Embodies a New Greece", New York Times, 3 December 2002
- ^ Stavros Stavrides (2010). "December 2008 Youth Uprising in Athens". Justice spatiale/Spatial Justice. ISSN 2105-0392.
- ^ "36 Hours in Athens". New York Times. 19 October 2014. Retrieved November 2014.
- ^ "Athens mosque plan faces new hurdles", The Guardian, 28 November 2010
- ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year. 2013. ISBN 978-1-62513-103-4.
- ^ "Flooding in Athens – in pictures", The Guardian, 22 February 2013
This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.
Further reading[edit]
- Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Athens", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
- Frank J. Costa et al. (1991). "Evolving Planning Systems in Madrid, Rome, and Athens". GeoJournal 24. JSTOR 41145202.
- Kathryn A. Kozaitis (1997). "'Foreigners Among Foreigners': Social Organization Among The Roma Of Athens, Greece". Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 26. JSTOR 40553322.
External links[edit]
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- Museum of the City of Athens. "Timeline: history of Athens from 1821-1941". Eutaxias Foundation.
- Europeana. Items related to Athens, various dates.
- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Athens, various dates
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