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.
