| 1876 |
1 September |
Accession of Abdulhamid 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 |
| 1880 |
Winter |
Mustafa (Kemal Ataturk) born in Salonica |
| 1881 |
24 May |
New border with Greece. Thessaly ceded to Greece |
| 1888 |
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All Riza, Mustafa’s father, dies |
| 1893 |
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Mustafa enters military preparatory school in Salonica |
| 1897 |
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Greko-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 5th 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 3rd 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 |
Abdülhamit 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 Coup of 1913 |
| 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 Mustafa |
| 6 August |
Final attempts made by the British at Battle of Sari Bair faced with Mustafa |
| 1919 |
May 19 |
Kemal lands in Samsun. |
| July 8 |
Mustafa Kemal resigns from the post of Inspector of 3. Army and from the army. |
| July 23 |
Kemal elected Chairman of Erzurum Congress. |
| 1920 |
April 23 |
Kemal opens the Turkish Grand National Assembly (TBMM) in Ankara. |
| May 11 |
Kemal is condemned to death by the government in Istanbul. |
| 1921 |
August 5 |
Appointed Commander - in - Chief by the Grand National Assembly. |
| August 23 |
The battle of Sakarya begins with Turkish troops led by Mustafa Kemal. |
| September 19 |
Kemal received the rank of Marshal and the title Gazi (Victor). |
| 1922 |
August 26 |
Gazi Mustafa Kemal begins to lead Great Offensive from the hill of Kocatepe. |
| August 30 |
Mustafa Kemal at the Battle of Dumlupınar. |
| September 10 |
Enters Izmir. |
| November 1 |
The Grand National Assembly abolish the Sultanate. |
| 1923 |
January 14 |
Zubeyde Hanim dies in Izmir. |
| October 29 |
Proclamation of the Republic of Turkey |
| October 29 |
Elected first president. |
| 1928 |
August 9 |
Speaks at Sarayburnu on the new Turkish Alphabet. |
| 1932 |
July 12 |
Founds the Turkish Linguistic Society. |
| 1934 |
June 16 |
The Grand National Assembly passes a law granting the surname "ATATÜRK". |
| 1938 |
November 10 |
Dies |
