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=== Early Byzantine era (451-843) ===
*529 Emperor Justinian closes the School of Athens.
*529-534 [[Justinian the Great|Justinian]]'s ''[[w:Corpus Juris Civilis|Corpus Juris Civilis]]'' issued; Justinian's ''Novella 131'' formulated the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees under the auspices of a single universal empire ([[Pentarchy]]).
*ca. 590 [[Parthenon (Athens)|Parthenon]] in Athens converted into a Christian church dedicated to Aghia Sophia.
=== Byzantine Imperial era (843-1204)===
*843 Empress Theodora secures return of icon-worship.
*860 [[Cyril and Methodius]] of Thessaloniki mission to the Slavs.
*881 Death of [[Theoctiste of the Isle of Lesbos|Theoktiste of Lesbos]] ([[November 9]])
*885 [[Mount Athos]] gains political autonomy, as Emperor Basil lays down the boundaries of the monastic republic of Mount Athos.
*892 Death of Theodora the Myrrh-gusher of Thessaloniki
*904 Thessaloniki sacked and pillaged by Saracen pirates under [[w:Leo of Tripoli|Leo of Tripoli]], a Greek pirate serving Saracen interests.
=== Latin Occupation (1204-1456)===
*12th-Century Skete life begins in Meteora.*1204 Venetians and Western Crusaders sack Constantinople; Latin Occupation, mainland Greece under Franks and Venetians.
*1222 The Byzantines recover Thessaloniki (Salonica)
*1235 St. Olympiada and nuns martyred by pirates on [[Metropolis of Mytiline|Mytilene of Lesbos]]
*1249 Mystras citadel built by Franks in the Peloponnese.*1274 Orthodox attending the Second Council of Lyons, accept supremacy of Rome and filioque clause.*1275/76 Persecution of Athonite monks by Emp. Michael VIII and Pat. John Vekkos, Death of 26 martyrs of Zographou monastery on Mt. [[Athos]], martyred by the Latins.*1283 Accommodation with Rome officially repudiated.
*1309 Rhodes falls to the Knights of St. John, who establish their headquarters there, renaming themselves the "Knights of Rhodes"
*1336 [[Meteora]] in Greece are established as a center of Orthodox [[monasticism]]
*1338 [[Gregory Palamas]] writes ''Triads in defense of the Holy Hesychasts'', defending the Orthodox practice of [[Hesychasm|hesychast spirituality]] and the use of the [[Jesus Prayer]].*1341 Council of Constantinople accepts legitimacy of Hesychasm.*1351 Council of Constantinople accepts legitimacy of Hesychasm.*1359 Death of [[Gregory Palamas]].*1360 Death of [[John Koukouzelis]] the Hymnographer.*1382 Founding of the Great Meteora Monastery.*14th-Century "Golden Age" of Thessaloniki, many churches and monasteries are built; [[Hesychast controversy]], defense of St. [[Gregory Palamas]].*1426 Death of New Martyr [[Ephraim of Nea Makri]].*1429 The Turks capture Thessaloniki.*1430 The [[monks]] of [[Mount Athos]] submit to Sultan Murad II and keep their autonomy.
*1438 [[Council of Florence]] unsuccessfully tries to unit Greek East and Latin West.
*1450 Death of ''Empress Helena Palaeologus'' (St. [[Ipomoni of Loutraki]]).
*1453 [[Fall of Constantinople]] to invasion of the Ottoman Turks, ending the Roman Empire; Death of [[Constantine XI Palaiologos, last of the [[Byzantine Emperors]], martyred by the Ottoman Turks.
*1462 Wonderworking icon of the [[Archangel Michael of Mantamados]] is created after the Byzantine monastery of the Taxiarchis (Archangel) Michael is destroyed by invading Ottoman Turks and all the monks are slaughtered; the sole surviving novice-monk credited his salvation to a miracle of the Archangel and made the icon, in relief, using clay earth mixed with in with the blood of his slain brothers; [[Matrona of Chios]] reposes [[October 22]].
*1463 Martyric death of [[Raphael, Nicholas and Irene]].
*1472 Decrees of the Council of Ferrara-Florence repudiated by Patriarchate of Contantinople.*1511 Death of [[Joseph the Sanctified]] of Crete.*1530 Mother of God restores sight to blind youth through the'[[Panagia Cassiope|Cassiope]] icon of Corfu.*1546 Death of New Martyr [[John of Ioannina]].*Mid 6th-Century Death of [[Nilus the Myrrh-gusher]] of Mt. Athos.*1556 Death of [[Maximos the Greek]].*1559 Death of Iconographer [[Theophanes the Cretan]].*1573-81 Correspondence between Patriarch Jeremias II and the Lutheran professors at Tubingen.*1579 Death of [[Gerasimos of Cephalonia]].*1589 Death of [[Philothei of Athens]].*1590 Death of [[Timothy of Penteli]] (Athens).
*1622 Death of [[Dionysius of Zakynthos]] ([[December 17]]).
*1677 Bishop Henry Compton of London builds church for the Greeks in London.
*1682 Greek church in London closed.
*1687 Parthenon devastated by Venetian shelling.*1694 Plan for Worcester College, Oxford (then Gloucester Hall) to become a college for the Greeks.*1713 [[Theological School of Patmos]] founded.*1715 St. [[Spyridon of Trimythous|Spyridon]] saves Corfu from Turkish invasion.
*1720 [[Monastery of the Life-Giving Spring (Poros)]] founded.
*1728 The [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]] formally replaced the ''[[Byzantine Creation Era|Creation Era]]'' (AM) calendar, in use for over 1000 years, with the [[w:Anno Domini|Christian Era]] (AD).*1730 Death of [[John the Russian]].*1735 Death of [[Athanasius of Christianapolis]].
*1753 School founded on [[Mount Athos]].
*1759 School on [[Mount Athos]] forced to close down.
*1795 Death of New Martyr [[Theodora of Byzantium]] ([[Metropolis of Mytiline|Mytiline]]).
*1809 Death of [[Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain]] the "Hagiorite".
=== Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) ===
*1821 [[w:Greek War of Independence|Greek War of Independance]] begins as Metr. [[Germanos of Patra]] declares Greek independence on Day of [[Annunciation]] ([[March 25]]), also [[Kyriopascha]], at the Monastery of [[w:Agia Lavra|Agia Lavra]], Peloponessos; martyrdom of Patr. [[Gregory V of Constantinople]], Abp. [[Kyprianos of Cyprus]], and Abp. [[Gerasimos of Crete]] in retaliation.
*1823 Wonderworking Icon of [[Panagia of Tinos|Panagia Evangelistria]] found on Tinos, led by a vision from [[Pelagia of Tinos]], becoming the most venerated pilgrimage item in Greece, at the [[Church of Evangelistria (Tinos, Greece)|Church of Evangelistria]].
*1827 Europe recognises the autonomy of Greece
*1828 John Capodistrias first president of Greece and confiscates Athonite metochia; Greek church opened in London (second time).
*1829 Treaty of Adrianople ends Greek War of Independence, culminating in the creation of the modern Greek state.
*1832-1835 Bavarokratia closes down 600 monasteries and nationalises monastic land-holdings
*1833 The National Assembly at Nauplio declares the [[Church of Greece]] as independant from the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]]
*1834 Suppression of many monasteries in this the new eraGreek kingdom.*1838 Death of New Martyr [[George of Ioannina]].*1839 Theofilos Kairis of Andros condemned and imprisoned for teaching a form of Deism.*1844 King Otho I accepts constitution.
== Autocephalous Era (1850-Present) ==
*1850 [[autocephaly]] of the Church of Greece recognised by Patriarch Anthimos IV of [[Constantinople]]; certain conditions issued in "Tomos" decree; as a result the Greek National Church must maintain special links to the "Mother Church".
*1863 George I enthroned as King of Greece
*1866 Greek church takes the diocese of the Ionian Islands from Constantinople; the [http://wiki.phantis.com/index.php/Arkadi holocaust of Arkadi Monastery] in Crete.
*1871 Body of Patriarch Gregory V returned to Athens and entombed in cathedral.
*1877 Death of [[Arsenios of Paros]] ([[August 18]]).
*1878 Council of Athens, convened and presided over by Metropolitan Procopius I of Athens, condemned the Makrakists, obtaining closure of [[Apostolos Makrakis|Makakris]]' ''"School of the Logos"'' on the pretext that it taught doctrines opposed to the tenets of the Church, and addressed an encyclical to the whole body of Christians in Greece that was read in the churches, charging Makrakis with attempting to introduce innovations.
*1907 Archim. [[Eusebius Matthopoulos]] founds [[Brotherhood of Theologians Zoe|Zoe Brotherhood]].
*1912 Epirus, Macedonia and eastern islands, from Northern territories of Greece, are liberated and come under the administration of the Greek Church.
*1912-13 First and Second Balkan Wars; liberation of Thessaloniki from the Turks.
*1913-14 Greeks anex Crete, Chios and [[Metropolis of Mytiline|Mytiline]], World War I
*1917 Hierarchy of the Greek Church changed in accordance with political control of the country of Greece.
*1919-1922 [[w:Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)|Greco-Turkish War]]; a million refugees flee to Greece joining half a million Greeks who had fled earlier; [[w:Pontic Greek Genocide|Pontic Greek Genocide]] eliminates the Christian population of Trebizond.
*1920 Death of [[Nektarios of Pentapolis]] (Aegina); Dodecanese Islands ceded to Greece by Italy
*1922 [[Metropolis of Aitolia and Akarnania]] founded in its modern form; death of [[Ethnomartyr]] Metropolitan [[Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna]], lynched by a Turkish mob on Sunday [[September 10]]; Greek troops advancing on Constantinople are routed by Turks; the predominatly Orthodox Christian city of [[w:Great Fire of Smyrna|Smyrna is destroyed]], ending 1900 years of Christian civilization.
*1923 Exchange of Christian and Moslem population between Greece and Turkey; Treaty of Lausanne hands over control of the Holy Mountain to Greece; Patriarch ceases to be regarded as head of the Christian Orthodox Millet in Turkey; Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis promulgates reformed calendar.
=== Second Hellenic Republic (1924-1935) ===
*1924 Death of [[Arsenios of Cappadocia]]; Constitution of the Holy Mountain agreed; Greek government adopts new calendar.
*1926 Proposal for [[Mount Athos]] to be turned into a Casino by Dictator Pangalos.
*1932 Death of Papa-[[Nicholas (Planas)]].
*1933 [[Church of Greece]] bans [[Freemasonry]].
*1945 October 17: Archbishop [[Damaskinos]] serves as regent in an attempt to stabilise Greece.
*1947 The Dodecanese Islands are liberated but remain under the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
*1948 Death of [[Savvas the New of Kalymnos]].*1950 Uncovering of the relics of St. [[Ephraim of New Makri]].
*1952 New Monastery of Panagia Soumela built in the village of Kastania, in Macedonia, Greece, housing the wonderworking icon of Panagia Soumela, becoming a center of religious pilgrimage.
*1953 School of Theology on Mount Athos reopened.
*1955 Most Orthodox Churches in Constantinople burned down during Turkish pogrom.
*1959 Death of Blessed Elder [[Joseph (Spilaiotis)]] the [[Hesychast]].
*1960 Death of [[Anthimos of Chios]].
=== Military Dictatorship (1967-1974) ===
*1967 Hierarchy replaced by the Junta of the Colonels.*1970 Death of [[Amphilochios (Makris)]] of Patmos.*1973 Hierarchy of the Junta deposed.
=== Third Hellenic Republic (1974-Present) ===
*1988 Radio Station "[[Church of Piraeus 91.2 FM]]." <ref> [http://www.pe912fm.com/ Church of Piraeus 91.2 FM Website] (Greek) </ref> begins transmitting in October; [[Mount Athos]] is designated a UNESCO World Heritage site.
*1991 Death of Elder [[Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) the Kapsokalivite]] (Evangelos (Bairaktaris)) [[February 7]].
*1992 Deaths of [[Gabrielia (Papayannis)]] and [[Chrysanthi of Andros]].
*1994 Death of Elder [[Paisios (Eznepidis)]] of Mt. [[Athos]] [[July 12]].
*1998 Death of Monk [[Ephraim of Katounakia]]; [http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/thessaloniki_roc.aspx Thessaloniki Summit] held to discuss Orthodox participation in [[w:World Council of Churches|WCC]].
