Timeline of Athens

{{See also|History of Athens#Antiquity|History of Athens#Middle Ages|Timeline of ancient Greece}}

• 630 BCE – Temple of Athena Polias built (approximate date).{{cite web |url=http://www.namuseum.gr/collections/chronoltable-en.html |title=Chronological Table |publisher=National Archaeological Museum |location=Athens |archive-date=20 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141120123027/http://www.namuseum.gr/collections/chronoltable-en.html |url-status=dead }}
• 594 BCE – Solonian law established.
• 575 BCE – Coins in use (approximate date).{{cite web |url= http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/amser/chrono1 |title= Comparative Chronology of Money |author1= Glyn Davies |author2= Roy Davies |year= 2002 |via= University of Exeter |access-date= 24 December 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20151225025720/http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/amser/chrono1 |archive-date= 25 December 2015 |url-status= live |df= dmy-all |author1-link= Glyn Davies (economist) }}
• 566 BCE – Panathenaic festival begins.
• 560 BCE – Peisistratos in power.
• 546 BCE – Athenian tetradrachm (coin) in use.
• 480 and 479 BCE - Athens is burnt, then destroyed by the Persians
• 447 BCE – Parthenon construction begins.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17373216 |title=Greece Profile: Timeline |work=BBC News |access-date=30 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210103810/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17373216 |archive-date=10 December 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
• 431 BCE – Peloponnesian War begins with Sparta.{{cite book|author= Dimitris Keridis |title=Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece |year= 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6312-5 |chapter=Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3ERJI1jLruQC&pg=PR23 }}
• 430 BCE – Plague.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 424 BCE – Temple of Athena Nike built.
• 409 BCE – Erechtheion built (approximate date).{{cite book |editor=Trudy Ring |title=Southern Europe |series=International Dictionary of Historic Places |volume=3 |year= 1996 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn |oclc=31045650 |chapter=Athens |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fYH7AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA62 |page=62+ |isbn=9781134259656 }}
• 404 BCE – Athens defeated in the Peloponnesian War
• 385 BCE – Academy founded (approximate date).{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 335 BCE – Lyceum founded (approximate date).{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 229 BCE – Athens liberated from Macedonian supremacy, but refuses to join Achaean League.
• 88 BCE – City sacked by Roman forces.
• 267 CE – Agora sacked by Germanic Heruli forces.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 396 CE – City taken by forces of Visigoth Alaric.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 582 – City sacked by Slavic forces.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 1146 – City "plundered by Roger, King of Sicily."
• 1204 – Othon de la Roche of Burgundy becomes Duke of Athens.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 1311 – City under Aragonese rule.{{Citation |publisher = Frederick Warne & Co. |location = London |author = George Henry Townsend |title = A Manual of Dates |date = 1867 |edition=2nd |chapter= Athens |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/manualofdatesdic00townrich#page/92/mode/1up |author-link = George Henry Townsend }}

{{See also|History of Athens#Modern history}}

• 1456 – Conquest by the Ottoman Empire.
• 1687 – City besieged by Venetian forces under Francesco Morosini during the Morean War.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 1801 – Elgin Marbles taken to Britain.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 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|date=November 2014}}
• 1834
• City becomes capital of Kingdom of Greece.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• National Library of Greece headquartered in city.
• 1837 – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens ("Othonian University") and National Technical University of Athens ("Royal School of Arts") established.
• 1840 – Royal Garden now National Garden planted.
• 1842 – Observatory built.
• 1843
• 3 November: {{Interlanguage link multi|Third of September National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens|el|3=Η της Γ’ Σεπτεμβρίου εν Αθήναις Εθνική των Ελλήνων Συνέλευσις}} begins.
• Royal Palace built.
• 1846 – Omonoia Square ("Palace Square") laid out.{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}
• 1854 – Occupation of city by British and French forces during the Crimean War begins.
• 1856 – Occupation of city by British and French forces ends.
• 1860s – Anafiotika neighborhood settled.{{cite book|author= Lila Leontidou |title=The Mediterranean City in Transition: Social Change and Urban Development |year=1990|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-34467-8}}
• 1862 – 10 December: {{Interlanguage link multi|Second National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens|el|3=Η εν Αθήναις Β' Εθνική των Ελλήνων Συνέλευσις}} begins.
• 1869 – Athens and Piraeus Railway in operation.{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}
• 1871 – Athens Conservatoire founded.
• 1874 – German Archaeological Institute at Athens established.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 1876 – Athens Stock Exchange established.
• 1878 – Hotel Grande Bretagne in business.
• 1881 – American School of Classical Studies at Athens established.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 1886 – British School at Athens established.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 1896 – 1896 Summer Olympics held.
• 1899
• City becomes part of the Attica Prefecture administrative division.{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}
• Spyridon Merkouris becomes mayor.

{{See also|Timeline of modern Greek history}}

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• 1904
• Athens Metro in operation.{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}
• Athens Railway Station opens.
• 1905 – Athens News Agency established.
• 1907 – Population: 167,479.{{cite book |title=Statesman's Year-Book |year=1921 |location=London |publisher= Macmillan and Co.|chapter= Greece |hdl=2027/njp.32101072368440 |title-link=Statesman's Year-Book }}
• 1908 – Panathinaikos A.O. football club formed.
• 1909 – Goudi coup.
• 1916 – 1 December: "Allied and Greek forces clash."{{cite book|author1= Stephen Pope |author2=Elizabeth-Anne Wheal|title=Dictionary of the First World War|year= 1995 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=978-0-85052-979-1 |chapter=Select Chronology |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=fOrNAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA523 }}
• 1919 – Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry founded.
• 1920
• * {{Interlanguage link multi|Third National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens|el|3=Γ' Εθνική Συνέλευση 1920}} begins.
• Population: 453,042 metro.
• 1922

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• After the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922 and the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, Athens experienced its second period of explosive growth. More than a million Greek refugees from Asia Minor settled in Athens. Suburbs such as Nea Ionia and Nea Smyrni began as shantytowns refugee settlements on the Athens outskirts and the population of the city doubled.
• To Vima newspaper begins publication.{{cite web |url= http://catalog.crl.edu/search~S35?/dAthens+%28Greece%29+--+Newspapers |title= Athens (Greece) – Newspapers |publisher=Center for Research Libraries |location=Chicago, USA |work= Global Resources Network |access-date=30 November 2014 }}
• Leoforos Alexandras Stadium opens in Ampelokipoi.
• 1923
• Vradyni newspaper begins publication.
• {{Interlanguage link multi|Fourth National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens|el|3=Δ΄ Συντακτική Συνέλευση 1924}}, convenes.
• 1924 - A.E.K. (sports club) formed near Omonoia Square.
• 1926 – Academy of Athens founded.
• 1928 – Population: 802,000 metro.
• 1929 – Residential Psychiko suburb developed.
• 1930 – National Theatre of Greece and Benaki Museum established.
• 1932 – Residential Filothei suburb developed.
• 1935
• October: Fifth National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens held.
• Alexandras Prosfygika housing complex built on Alexandras Avenue.{{cite book|editor=Giovanna Sonda|title=Urban Plots, Organizing Cities |year=2010|publisher=Ashgate |isbn=978-1-4094-0927-4 |chapter=Redefining the right to the city: representations of public space as part of the urban struggles |author= Stavros Stavrides |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8siSUszQJhgC&pg=PA36 |display-editors=etal}}
• 1938 – Airport built.{{citation |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-greece-airport-idUKKBN0F10YI20140626 |publisher=Reuters |date=26 June 2014 |title=Big dreams and angry protests swirl at abandoned Athens airport |access-date=21 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019075038/http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/26/us-greece-airport-idUKKBN0F10YI20140626 |archive-date=19 October 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• 1939 – Greek National Opera established.
• 1940 – Population: 481,225 city; 1,124,109 metro.{{Citation |publisher = Columbia University Press |location = New York |editor = Leon E. Seltzer |title = Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World |date = 1952 |ol = 6112221M |page = 116 |df = dmy-all }}
• 1941 – 27 April: City occupation by German forces begins.
• 1944
• 14 October: City occupation by German forces ends.{{Citation |publisher = G. & C. Merriam Co. |location = USA |title = Webster's Geographical Dictionary |date = 1960 |ol=5812502M |page=78 }}
• December: Dekemvriana clashes begin.{{cite book|author= Dimitris Keridis |title=Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece |year= 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6312-5 |chapter=Athens |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=3ERJI1jLruQC&pg=PA18 }}
• Ta Nea newspaper begins publication.
• 1947 – Star-Cinema opens.
• 1951 – Population: 559,250 city; 1,368,142 metro.
• 1955 – Athens Festival of arts begins.
• 1957
• Astron Cinema opens.{{cite web |url=http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/greece/athens?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Athens |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher=Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |access-date=30 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221133112/http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/greece/athens?status=all |archive-date=21 December 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
• Hellenic American Union founded.{{cite web |url=http://www.newmuseum.org/spaces/listing/country:Greece |title=Greece |work=Art Spaces Directory |location=New York |publisher=New Museum |access-date=30 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129075207/http://www.newmuseum.org/spaces/listing/country:Greece |archive-date=29 November 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
• 1971 – Population: 867,023 city; 2,101,103 urban agglomeration.{{cite book |chapter-url=https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1975 |year=1976 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=253–279 |quote=Athinai |access-date=27 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728164732/https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm# |archive-date=28 July 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
• 1972 – City becomes part of the Athens Prefecture administrative division.
• 1973
• Athens City Museum established.
• Athens Polytechnic uprising.
• 1974 – Eleftherotypia newspaper begins publication.
• 1980 – 31 July: 1980 Turkish embassy attack in Athens.
• 1981 – Ethnos newspaper begins publication.
• 1983 – Eleftheros Typos newspaper begins publication.{{cite book|title=Europa World Year Book 2003|year= 2003|publisher=Europa Publications |isbn=978-1-85743-227-5 |chapter=Greece: Directory |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLvU9lroRuUC&pg=PA1867 }}
• 1984 – Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA.{{cite web | url=http://sistercities.lacity.org/ | title=Sister Cities of Los Angeles | publisher=City of Los Angeles | location=USA | access-date=30 December 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151104131119/http://sistercities.lacity.org/ | archive-date=4 November 2015 | url-status=live | df=dmy-all }}
• 1987 – Miltiadis Evert becomes mayor.
• 1991 – Athens Concert Hall opens.
• 1994 – City becomes part of the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture administrative division.{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}
• 1995 – Dimitris Avramopoulos becomes mayor.
• 1998 – Kokkalis Foundation headquartered in city.{{cite web |url=http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Organizations |title=Organizations |work=International Relations and Security Network |location=Switzerland |publisher=Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich |access-date=30 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111034557/http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Organizations |archive-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
• 1999 – The 6.0 {{M|w}} Athens earthquake affected the area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 143, injuring 800–1,600, and leaving 50,000 homeless in the region.
• 2000 – Ambelokipi metro station, Megaro Moussikis metro station, and Panormou metro station open.

• 2001 – New Athens International Airport opens.{{sfn|Llewellyn-Smith|2004}}
• 2003 – Dora Bakoyannis becomes mayor.{{citation |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/03/world/new-athens-mayor-embodies-a-new-greece.html |title=New Athens Mayor Embodies a New Greece |date=3 December 2002 |access-date=20 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905101149/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/03/world/new-athens-mayor-embodies-a-new-greece.html |archive-date=5 September 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
• 2004
• Athens Tram begins operating.
• 2004 Summer Olympics and Paralympics held.
• 2007 – Nikitas Kaklamanis becomes mayor.
• 2008 – December: 2008 Greek riots.{{cite journal |title= December 2008 Youth Uprising in Athens |author= Stavros Stavrides |journal= Justice Spatiale/Spatial Justice |issn= 2105-0392 |url= http://www.jssj.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/JSSJ2-10en1.pdf |year= 2010 |access-date= 21 November 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141129045717/http://www.jssj.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/JSSJ2-10en1.pdf |archive-date= 29 November 2014 |url-status= live |df= dmy-all }}
• 2009 – Acropolis Museum{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/travel/things-to-do-in-36-hours-in-athens.html |title=36 Hours in Athens |date=19 October 2014 |work=New York Times |access-date=30 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027053601/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/travel/things-to-do-in-36-hours-in-athens.html |archive-date=27 October 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }} and Art Foundation open.
• 2010
• July: Journalist Giolias killed.
• November: Muslim demonstration.{{citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/28/athens-mosque-far-right-zaha-hadid |work=The Guardian |title=Athens mosque plan faces new hurdles |date=28 November 2010 |access-date=17 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304123413/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/28/athens-mosque-far-right-zaha-hadid |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
• Giorgos Kaminis elected mayor.
• 2011
• OASA takes over metro and tram services from Attiko Metro.
• Population: 664,046 city; 3,737,550 metro.{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm |work=Demographic Yearbook 2013 |publisher=United Nations Statistics Division |title=Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants |access-date=24 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161227194033/http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2.htm |archive-date=27 December 2016 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}
• 2012
• 13 February: Protest.{{cite book|title=Encyclopædia Britannica Book of the Year |year=2013|publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jXadAAAAQBAJ|isbn=978-1-62513-103-4}}
• Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center construction begins.
• 2013 – Flooding.{{citation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/feb/22/flooding-athens-pictures |work=The Guardian |title=Flooding in Athens – in pictures |date=22 February 2013 |access-date=17 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905005126/https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2013/feb/22/flooding-athens-pictures |archive-date=5 September 2017 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}

• History of Athens
• List of newspapers in Athens
• List of mayors of Athens, 1836–present

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