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Cyrpus Timeline of Important Events
1974: Coup D'etat
1974 - Military junta in Greece backs coup against Makarios, who escapes. Within days Turkish troops land in north. Greek Cypriots flee their homes.
Coup collapses. Turkish forces occupy third of the island, enforce partition between north and south roughly along the "Green Line" ceasefire line drawn up by UN forces in 1963. About 165,000 Greek Cypriots flee or are driven from the Turkish-occupied north, and about 45,000 Turkish Cypriots leave the south for the north.
The UN Security Council unanimously passes a resolution calling on Turkey to withdraw its troops from Cyrpus. Turkey refuses to do so, despite repeated UN Security Council resolutions making the same demand over the following decades.
Glafcos Clerides, president of the House of Representatives, becomes president until Makarios returns in December.
1960 - 1967: Cyrpuss Independence and Greek Coup.
1960: Cyrpus becomes an independent nation under the government of Archbishop Makarios III.
1967: A Right Wing military group known as "The Junta" gains the power in Greece, this is important as The Junta became the main supporter of the future Cyprus Coup.
1950' Eonosis idea (unification with Greece) and Archbishop Makarios
1955 - Greek Cypriots begin guerrilla war against British rule. The guerrilla movement, the National Organisation of Cypriot Combatants (EOKA), wants enosis (unification) with Greece. British authorities arm a paramilitary police force made up of Turkish Cypriots.
1956 - Archbishop Makarios, head of enosis campaign, deported to the Seychelles.
1959 - Archbishop Makarios returns and is elected president.
1914 Cyprus is annexed
1914 - Cyprus annexed by Britain, after more than 300 years of Ottoman rule. Britain had occupied the island in 1878, although it remained nominally under Ottoman sovereignty.
XIX Century: Cyprus as part of the British Kingdom
During the XIX century, Cyprus was part of the British crown as a result of several agreements regarding the protection of the island itself against any threat, some agreements involved the process of unification between Greece and Cyrpus.