1876 |
1 September |
Accession of Abdul Hamid II. |
23 December |
Promulgation of Ottoman constitution Kanûn-ı Esâsî. |
1877 |
19 March |
Opening of first Ottoman parliament. |
24 April |
Russian troops enter Ottoman territory. |
1878 |
14 February |
Ottoman parliament dissolved. |
3 March |
Russian victory confirmed by Treaty of San Stefano (Ayastefanos). |
13 July |
Treaty of Berlin replaces Treaty of San Stefano. |
1881 |
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Mustafa (Kemal Atatürk) born in Salonica (Selanik). |
24 May |
New border with Greece. Thessaly ceded to Greece. |
1888 |
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Ali Rıza, Mustafa’s father, dies. |
1893 |
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Mustafa enters military preparatory school in Salonica. |
1897 |
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Greco-Ottoman War. |
1899 |
13 March |
Mustafa Kemal enters infantry class of War College in Istanbul. |
1902 |
10 February |
Commissioned Second Lieutenant, and enters Staff College. |
1903 |
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Promoted First Lieutenant. |
1905 |
11 January |
Passes out as Staff Captain and is posted for Fifth Army in Syria; revives a secret opposition group in Damascus. |
1906 |
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Makes clandestine trip to Salonica. |
1907 |
20 June |
Promoted Adjutant-Major. |
13 October |
Posted to Third Army headquarters in Salonica. |
1908 |
22 June |
Appointed to Inspectorate of Eastern Railways in Rumelia. |
24 July |
Young Turk Revolution. |
September |
Mustafa Kemal travels to Tripoli and Benghazi to re-establish CUP. |
1909 |
13 January |
Appointed chief of staff of i7th reserve division in Salonica. |
13 April |
Travels with his division to the outskirts of Istanbul; 31 March Incident. |
27 April |
Abdul Hamid II deposed and succeeded by Mehmet V; 31 March Incident. |
1910 |
September |
Visits French army manoeuvres in Picardy. |
September |
Takes part in suppress of Albanian revolt. |
1911 |
15 January |
Appointed to 5th army corps headquarters. |
January |
Commander 38th infantry regiment. |
13 September |
Posted to general staff in Istanbul. |
September |
Volunteers for service against the Italians in Cyrenaica. |
27 November |
Promoted Major. |
1912 |
11 March |
Appointed commander of Derne sector in Cyrenaica; Italo-Turkish War. |
8 October |
First Balkan War. |
8 October |
Salonica falls to the Greeks. |
24 October |
Mustafa Kemal leaves Cyrenaica and returns to Istanbul. |
25 November |
Appointed director of operations of Straits Composite Force. |
1913 |
23 January |
CUP seizes power (1913 Ottoman coup d'état). |
24 March |
Edirne falls to the Bulgarians. |
29 June |
Second Balkan War. |
21 July |
Ottomans reoccupy Edirne. |
29 September |
Treaty of Istanbul fixes Turkish-Bulgarian frontier. |
27 October |
Mustafa Kemal appointed military attaché in Sofia. |
1914 |
1 March |
Mustafa Kemal promoted Lieutenant-Colonel. |
28 July |
Austria declares war on Serbia; beginning of First World War. |
2 August |
Ottoman Empire signs Ottoman–German alliance. |
29 October |
After Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau Ottoman navy under German command shells Russian targets. |
2 November |
Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire. |
5 November |
Britain declares war on Ottoman Empire. |
5 November |
France declares war on Ottoman Empire. |
1915 |
20 January |
Mustafa Kemal leaves Sofia to take up appointment as commander of 19th division for service in Battle of Gallipoli. |
21 March |
Allied navy fails to force the straits at Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign. |
27 April |
Allied troops Landing at Anzac Cove faced with Kemal. |
6 August |
Final attempts made by the British at Battle of Sari Bair faced with Kemal. |
1919 |
30 April |
Appointed the Inspector of the Ninth Army Troops. |
19 May |
Kemal lands in Samsun. |
8 July |
Mustafa Kemal resigns from the post of Inspector of Third Army and from the army. |
23 July |
Kemal elected Chairman of Erzurum Congress. |
1920 |
23 April |
Kemal opens the Grand National Assembly (BMM) in Ankara. |
11 May |
Kemal is condemned to death by the government in Istanbul. |
1921 |
5 August |
Appointed Commander - in - Chief by the Grand National Assembly. |
23 August |
The battle of Sakarya begins with Turkish troops led by Mustafa Kemal. |
19 September |
Kemal receives the rank of Marshal and the title Gazi (veteran, victorious warrior). |
1922 |
26 August |
Gazi Mustafa Kemal begins to lead Great Offensive from the hill of Kocatepe. |
30 August |
Mustafa Kemal at the Battle of Dumlupınar. |
10 September |
Enters Izmir. |
1 November |
The Grand National Assembly abolish the Sultanate. |
1923 |
14 January |
Zübeyde Hanım dies in Izmir. |
29 January |
Mustafa Kemal and Latife Uşşakizade marry in Izmir. |
29 October |
Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey. |
29 October |
Elected first president. |
1928 |
9 August |
Speaks at Sarayburnu about the new Turkish alphabet. |
1932 |
12 July |
Founds the Turkish Linguistic Society (now the Turkish Language Association). |
1934 |
16 June |
The Grand National Assembly of Turkey passes a law granting him the surname "ATATÜRK". |
1938 |
10 November |
Passes away. |