|
Period |
Event |
|
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- vidual pottery style |
|
1,600 - 1,050 BC |
The
Late Bronze Age: period of sophisticated literate
city states such as Enkomi-Alasia and Kition |
|
1,500 - 1,450 BC |
Hittite rule in Cyprus |
|
1,450 - 1,000 BC |
Beginning of the Egyptian domination of the island |
|
1,200 - 1,000 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 and Assyrian rule |
|
568 - 525 BC |
Egyptian domination |
|
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 BC - 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 (Early Byzantine period) |
|
649 - 965 AD |
A
second Dark Age: the island is caught on the
frontier between the two warring empires of
Byzantium and Islam |
|
965 - 1191 |
Return
of the island to Byzantium (Late Byzantine period) |
|
1191 - 1192 |
Rule
of the island by Richard I (the Lionheart), of
England and later by the Knights Templars |
|
1192 - 1489 |
Rule
of the island by the Frankish Lusignan Dynasty |
|
1489 - 1570 |
Venetian domination of Cyprus |
|
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 Crown Colony
and
under the British rule |
|
1960 |
Foundation of the Republic of Cyprus (by the Turkish
and Greek-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 |
|
1975 |
Declaration of the Turkish Federated State of
Cyprus, to pave way for a federal settlement on the
island |
|
1983 |
Foundation of the Turkish Republic of Northern
Cyprus |
|
1989 |
Application by the Greek-Cypriot South Cyprus for
membership of Cyprus to European Union (without
Turkish-Cypriot consent as required by the
Constitution of the 'Republic of Cyprus') |
|
2002-3 |
Dialogue and negotiations between Denktash &
Klerides to unify the North & South before EU entry |
