1626 - a famine on Crete reduces the population by a fifth
1797 - the Ionian Islands are conquered by France
1821 - Greek revolution and declaration of national independence
1832 - A 17 year old Bavarian prince, Otto, is crowned King of Greece
1864 - the Ionian Islands become part of independent Greece
1878 - British rule of Cyprus
1912 - King Constantine leads the Greek army against the Turks in Macedonia to victory
1912 - 13 - the Balkan Wars
1913 - Crete and the Northeast Aegean Islands become part of independent Greece
1914 -1918 World War I
1923 - the exchange of Greek and Turkish populations (the Greco-Turkish population exchange)
1939-45 - World War II
August 1945 The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki