Neolithic Cyprus
c.8000 BC
The first settlements are built in Cyprus.
c.7500
BC The first known domesticated cat in the world is buried at the Neolithic
village of Shillourokambos in Cyprus 4000 years before similar burials are
known in Egypt.
c.2000
BC The world’s oldest perfumery is situated at the Pyrgos-Mavroraki site 55
miles southwest of Cyprus's capital Nicosia.
Cypro-Cretan period
c.1700
BC Aphrodite Ourania comes to Cyprus attended by Eros.
c.1675
BC Aphrodite Zeia Kypris is born to Zeus and Dione.
c.1650
BC Aerias founds a shrine to Aphrodite at Paphos.
c.1600
BC Amathus the son of Aerias founds a shrine to Aphrodite at Amathus.
c.1560
BC Kethimus (Kinyras or Kypros) rules over Cyprus according to the Bible.
c.1500
Pygmalion Belis comes to the city of Amathus in Cyprus, marries Galatea and
begets Paphos.
c.1460
BC Paphos Pygmaliotis is known in Cyprus.
c.1420
BC Adonis Phoenikides is known.
c.1405
BC Kinyras Paphitis founds the city of Paphos but is seduced by his own
daughter Smyrna, and begets a son Adonis.
Arcado-Cypriot period
c.1385
BC Laodice, daughter of Kinyras marries Elatus Arcades of Arcadia and gives
birth to five sons, Aepytus, Pereus, Cyllen, Ischys, and Stymphalus.
c.1355
BC Pygmalion (father unknown) rules at Paphos.
Sandocus
Astynoudes, marries Pharnace, daughter of Megassares, king of Hyria in
Celixia and begets Kinyras.
An
unnamed Cypriot king writes to the Pharaoh of Egypt who he calls his
brother.
c. 1310
BC Kinyras Sandocou having married Metharme, daughter of Pygmalion, becomes
king of Cyprus and begets Oxyporus and Adonis, and besides them daughters,
Orsedice, Laogore, and Braesia.
c.1220
BC Kinyras (father unknown) rules at Paphos.
1201 BC
Kinyras sends Agamemnon Atrides 50 ships, 49 of them made of clay.
1183 BC
Agapenor Ancaeou the king of Arcadia rebuilds Paphos and builds a sanctuary
to Aphrodite at Palaepaphos.
c.1180
Teucer Telemonides marries a daughter of Kinyras, begets a daughter Asteria
and founds Salamis.
c.1160-unknown
time BC Laodice, a descendant of Agapenor sends a robe as a gift for Athena
Alea in Tegea.
1150 BC
Demophon Thesides the king of Athens dies in Cyprus.
Greek Archaic period
c.1000-600
BC Euclus foretells of the birth of Homer to Themisto a native of Salamis.
724 BC
The Tyrian king Eleuleus’ attempt to invade Cyprus results in the Assyrians
laying siege to Tyre after being called to assist the Cypriots.
c.680
BC Ten Cypriot kings including Pylagoras king of Chytroi, Eteander king of
Paphos and Damasus king of Kurion assist Esarhaddon the king of Assyria in
his campaign against Egypt.
c.570
BC Amasis compels Cyprus to pay tribute to Egypt after becoming the first
man to take it by force.
c.568-522
BC Evelthon is king of Salamis.
c.522-511
BC Siromas rules at Salamis.
c.511-500
BC Chersis Evelthonides rules at Salamis.
c.500-493
BC Gorgus Chersides rules at Salamis.
493-492
BC Onsilus the younger brother of Gorgus rules at Salamis and together with
other Cypriot kingdoms revolts against the Persians.
492 BC
Gorgus restored at Salamis.
Greek Classical Period
480-465
BC Philaon rules at Salamis.
465-450
Nicodemus rules at Salamis.
c.450
Lacharidas rules at Salamis.
c.450
Evergetis rules at Salamis.
c.445 A
Phoenician tyrant usurps the throne of Salamis.
c.420-411
BC Abdemon the king of Tyre occupies Salamis.
411-374
Evagoras Teukrides takes back Salamis and then conquers Tyre and other
parts of Phoenicia and then all of Cyprus.
374-368
BC Nicocles
368-351
Evagoras II
351-332
Pnythagoras fights at sea as an ally of Alexander in the siege of Tyre.
Hellenistic Period
331-310
Nicocreon
310-306
Menelaos is made satrap of Cyprus.
306-301
Antigonus
301-30 BC
Ptolemaic Lagid Dynasty
116 BC
Ptolemy Philometor sent to Cyprus by his mother Cleopatra
109 BC
Alexander the brother of Ptolemy sent to Cyprus by his mother Cleopatra
107 BC
Alexander returns from Cyprus and is made king of Egypt. Ptolemy campaigns
in Palestine.
58 BC
Cyprus becomes a Roman province.
51 BC
Cyprus placed under the rule of Cleopatra by Julius Caesar.
Roman Period
30 BC
Cyprus reverts to Roman rule.
45 AD
St Paul, St Barnabas and St Mark introduce Christianity to Cyprus and convert
the Roman governor Sergius Paulus
115-116
AD A messianic Jewish revolt results in the massacre of 250,000 Cypriots.
Trajan intervenes to restore the peace and expels the Jews from Cyprus.
c.300 AD
St Helen the mother of Constantine arrives in Cyprus with the cross of
Christ which disappears and miraculously re-appears at the top of Mt
Olympus in the Troodos range. Afterwards she brings cats to Cyprus to bring
the snakes under control and Greek settlers from Epirus to boost the
population.
c.350
AD Salamis is rebuilt by Constantius II the son of Constantine after being
destroyed by earthquakes and is renamed Constantia.
Greek Byzantine Empire
395 AD
Cyprus becomes part of the Greek dominated Byzantine Empire.
649 The
Arabs invade and pillage Cyprus sacking the city of Salamis.
654 The
Arabs invade Cyprus again and occupy it with a garrison of 20,000 men.
683 The
Arab garrison is withdrawn after the Arabs are defeated by Constantine IV.
688
Cyprus is declared neutral.
965
Cyprus is restored to Byzantine rule by Nicepheros Phokas.
Franco-Venitian Papacy
1191
Richard the Lionheart sacks Famagousta and sells Cyprus to the Knights
Templar.
1192 The
Cypriot people rebel against the Nights Templar who sell Cyprus to Guy de
Lusignan the exiled king of Jerusalem.
1194
Amaury the brother of Guy introduces a feudal system to Cyprus.
c.1300-1489
The Orthodox Greeks of Cyprus are given religious freedom and rise up the
social ladder.
1489
The Vanetians take control of Cyprus and the Greek Orthodox Church is given
full religious freedom.
1570
The Ottomans invade Cyprus and massacre 20,000 inhabitents of Nicosia. The rest
of Cyprus soon falls except for Famagousta which is held uder siege.
Ottoman oppression
1571
The Ottomans massacre the population of Famagousta and flay the Venitian
captain Marcantonio Bragadin alive after breaking their word of honour. The
Cypriot Christian population is subjected to slavery. Since Christians are
forbidden from even stepping onto the socio-political ladder Cypriot
society becomes a virtua l theocracy.
1572-1668
Twenty eight bloody uprisings occur across the island.
1821
The Ottoman governor Kuchuk Mehmed executes 486 Christians who he accuses
of supporting the Greek War of independence. 20,000 Greek Christians flee
the island in order to save their lives.
British colonial rule
1878
The Ottomans sell control and possession of Cyprus to Great Britain in
return for military assistance against Russia.
1914
Cyprus is annexed to the British Empire when the Turks side with Germany at
the start of the Great War.
1915
Britain promises give Cyprus to Greece in return for joining the war but
reneges on its word.
1923
Turkey renounces all claims to Cyprus in the Treaty of Lausanne and the
Turks are advised to leave the island.
1925
Britain declares Cyprus a Crown Colony and imposes an undemocratic
constitution, which treats the majority Greeks as second-class citizens
while favouring the Muslims.
1931-1940
The Greeks rebel and demand union with Greece. British repression increases
in magnitude.
1940
Britain offers Cyprus to Greece in return for joining the Allies in WW2 and
once again reneges on its word.
1955
The Cypriot resistance movement EOKA opposes British colonial rule.
The Republic of Cyprus
1960
Cyprus is given its independence under another undemocratic constitution based
on a form of apartheid where the Greek Cypriots are once again treated as
second-class citizens in the country in which they form the overwhelming
majority.
1963-64
Turkish state-sponsored TMT terrorists attack police stations across
Nicosia taking 200 people hostage. Turkey attempts to invade Cyprus bombing
and napalming civilians and the terrorists together with Turkish commandos
seize the Nicosia to Kyrenia main highway. A UN peacekeeping force is set
up.
1967
The Turkish state-sponsored terrorists attack the UN peacekeeping force and
seize the Larnaka to Limasol main highway to prepare for a Turkish
invasion.
1974
Turkey invades and ethnically cleanses the northern third of Cyprus in the
confusion caused by a failed CIA sponsored coup to assassinate the
president of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios.
1975
Turkey declares the occupied areas of the Republic of Cyprus to be a
Turkish federated state amid universal condemnation.
1976 A
report by the European Commission of Human Rights documents the war crimes
and human rights abuses perpetrated by Turkey during and after the invasion
of Cyprus, which were unreciprocated by the other side.
1983
The UN declares the creation of a Turkish Cypriot state in the occupied
areas to be legally invalid.
1996
Two Greek Cypriot refugees are murdered in cold blood in the UN buffer zone
in Cyprus by Turkish state sponsored MHP Grey Wolves terrorists who are
brought into Cyprus by the Turkish foreign Minster Tansu Ciller. Soon after
another refugee is murdered by the occupation regime while collecting
snails.
2004
The Cypriot people resoundingly reject a plan by the fraudulent and corrupt
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to partition Cyprus and create an apartheid
state as demanded by Turkey.
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