Turkey

5/16 — Guerra de Independencia de Grecia: Los turcos capturan la ciudad griega de Souli.

3/29 — Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.

11/30 — Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.

10/23 — Primera utilización de aviones en la guerra: Guerra Italo-Turca: Un piloto italiano despega desde Libia para observar las líneas del ejército turco.

12/1 — Creta, después de obtener la autonomía de Turquía tras la Primera Guerra de los Balcanes, es anexada por Grecia.

9/4 — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.

3/22 — Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).

7/24 — El Tratado de Lausana, que establece las fronteras de la moderna Turquía, se firma en Suiza por Grecia, Bulgaria y otros países que lucharon en la Primera Guerra Mundial.

9/9 — Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.

10/13 — Ankara replaces Istanbul as the capital of Turkey.

10/29 — Turquía se convierte en una república después de la disolución del Imperio Otomano.

3/3 — The fourteenth-century Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.

4/8 — Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey, as part of Atatürk's Reforms.

1/30 — The Government of Turkey expels Patriarch Constantine VI from Istanbul.

7/20 — The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.

7/31 — Bulgaria signs a non-aggression pact with Greece and other states of Balkan Antanti (Turkey, Romania, Yugoslavia).

12/27 — The 7.8 Mw Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). At least 32,700 people were killed.

2/25 — World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.

8/7 — The government of the Soviet Union presented a note to its Turkish counterparts which refuted the latter's sovereignty over the Turkish Straits, thus beginning the Turkish Straits crisis.

3/18 — An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.

5/27 — In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.

2/11 — Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.

3/28 — An earthquake strikes western Turkey at about 23:05 local time, killing 1,086 and injuring 1,260.

3/12 — The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Suleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.

7/20 — Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d'état, organised by the dictator of Greece, against president Makarios.

8/15 — El Partido de los Trabajadores del Kurdistán en Turquía comienza una campaña de ataques armados contra las bases militares turcas, con un ataque a las bases de policía y guardia en Şemdinli y Eruh.

3/13 — The Mw 6.7 Erzincan earthquake strikes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). At least 498 were killed in this strike-slip event on the North Anatolian Fault.

8/17 — The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118-17,127 dead and 43,953-50,000 injured.

11/12 — The 7.2 Mw Düzce earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 845 people were killed and almost 5,000 were injured.

12/19 — La rama de Unidades Guerrilleras Leninistas del Partido Obrero Comunista de Turquía/ataque leninista asalta una oficina del Partido Movimiento Nacionalista en Estambul, Turquía, matando a una persona e hiriendo a tres.

1/8 — Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of the 75 passengers.

2/10 — France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.

10/3 — Los presidentes de Azerbaiyán, Kazajistán, Kirguistán y Turquía firman el Acuerdo de Nakhchivan sobre la Creación del Consejo Turco.

10/10 — Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.

9/6 — Sixty-one people die after a fishing boat capsizes off the İzmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands.

5/13 — An explosion at an underground coal mine in south-western Turkey kills 301 miners.

5/24 — Un terremoto de magnitud 6.4 ocurre en el Mar Egeo entre Grecia y Turquía, hiriendo a 324 personas.

2/11 — A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.

8/20 — 54 people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.

12/10 — Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.

7/19 — Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.

4/6 — Basil, emperor of Trebizond (Turkey)