Historical place archive

Crete in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Crete in Turkey. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

9 records7 event labels4 people1866–1913

Historical events in Crete

1866

2 September 1866
Reballion of Crete
Abdulhamid I · House of Osmanli

Crete rebels against Turkey & decrees union with Greece

2 September 1866
Rule of Crete
Abdulhamid I · House of Osmanli

Crete rebels against Turkey & decrees union with Greece

2 September 1866
Unification
Abdulhamid I · House of Osmanli

Crete rebels against Turkey & decrees union with Greece

1868

1868
Reballion of Cretan
Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha · Government of Turkey

Suppresses the Cretan revolt

1868
Reballion of Cretan
Mehmed Emin Ali Pasha · Military

Suppresses the Cretan revolt

1876

1876
Abdication
Abdulhamid I · House of Osmanli

Forced do abdicate after a revolution

1876
Coup
Abdulhamid I · House of Osmanli

Forced do abdicate after a revolution

1878

June 1878
Rule of Crete
Abdulhamid II · Russia War

The Congress of Berlin promises Crete constitutional Government

1913

30 May 1913
Cession of Crete
Mehmed Mehmed V · Balkan Wars, 1st

Renounces Ottoman sovereignty over Crete in favour of the Balkan allies.

Provenance

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