 The nature gave this
place a lot of gifts. The winter no ice, the spring full of flowers and green beauty, the summer
sweet and the autumn with magical brown colors. All seasons are full of beautiful crystal clear water all year around
all over the island of Corfu. It’s the only place with so many beauties.
734-480 BC. The years of growing (flourishing years of prosperous years) The Chersokratis
in 734 King of Corfu and he build the town hall Chersopolis it was a very luxurious place
with many buildings for education, imposing buildings, statues and gardens. All over the
Chersopolis was enclosed with walls. This famous town got destroyed by the Gothic and
after what they did, there was nothing left of this glorious town.
480 BC the big war with the Corinthians.
431 BC Peloponnesian war (Sparta attacked Corfu and then Athens helped Corfu with soldiers
and the soldiers from Sparta resigned but they totally destroyed the area).
229 BC war with the Romans.
337 BC – 733 AC Under Eastern Roman State.
1204 - 1214 Under
Byzantium.
1214-1267 The men of Corfu had a revolution against the Venetians. Mikhail II built a
castle in Paleokastritsa (the caste of Angels)
1267-1386 Under France. 1303 The Catalans Spanish soldiers for hire destroyed the place.
In 1347 the temple of Pantokrator was built.
 1386-1669 Under the Venetians. The 7th
of January 1394 the church of Panagia Evangelista was built. On the 8th
of May 1530 the miracle of Panagia kasopitvas in Kassiopi happened, a blind man got his
eye sight back. The 29th of August 1537 25.000 Turkish soldiers destroyed
everything except the Castle of Angels and the town. And the 11th of September
they went from Corfu again.
1553 a leap year for Corfu hunger and poorness. The wind is wild and the ships with food
cannot approach the island. One day before Easter a strange thing happened, ships entered
land. The destination for these ships was for some place else, but the captain and sailors
had a dream that a munch told them to go to Corfu to give the people of the island corn
because of hunger and to get a good price. And ever since this day is celebrated on the
island.
1557 it got decided that they should create the fortress, a plan to recover the town with
walls. The same year they build a house for poor people.
1587 the bell tower of Saint Spyridon was built.
1623 The Venetian Government helped Corfu so they could plant olive trees on the island.
1629 during Christmas a Turkish ship came to Corfu. The soldiers sold to a servant some
European silk handkerchiefs and the servant gave these to his lady and she gave to her
daughter. Few hours after the daughter got the handkerchiefs she died. The day of the
funeral a friend kissed the woman and the people started to die. The doctors said it was a
plague. Because it was Christmas the villagers came into town and they heard about the
situation, they panicked and went back again, but already by them the virus was already
inside them. The crowd ask for revenge for the death and gets the father of the girl who
died first and his wife and put them in quarantine, but this didn’t satisfy the
crowd. They put the man and the woman in a little boat and shoots them and burns them. The
plague still killed people. The people starts to have faith of help in the Ag.Spyridon and
starts to pray for the good health. One evening in the castle they can see a light of the
church and the next day people starts to have their health back. And this is celebrated
every year on Corfu. The miracle of Ag.Spyridon.
1669 the island starts to be a center of culture.
1680 a school for priests was
built.
In the beginning of the summer of 1716 the Turks wants to attack the Ionian islands. The 8th
of June they attacked Corfu and they approach the area of Ipsos and Gouvia. It was 33.000 of them.
16th of June in Potamos they killed, burned the people and their houses. In the
17th of June in the hills of Aurami they attacked, but 400 of the men of Corfu
had hidden inside a wall and scared off the 200 Turkish men on horses. At the 21st
of June they attacked Mandouki and Garitsa. At the 8th of August all the
Turkish soldiers attacked, but the next day the weather changed into rain and wild air
made the area look like a lake. The Turkish soldiers saw a old man attack them in the
heads with a fire torch and they got scared and left the place. About 16.000 men got
killed. The old man was Ag.Spyridon and every 11th of August this day is
celebrated.
1779 Under France. War with Corfu. Temporary City Hall.
1880 The union of Eptanisa state belongs to France.
1808 Foundation of Ionian Academy, 3 parts: 1) Physics and Mathematic 2) Philosophical and
artistic 3) Moralistic
They built Liston area for the French army.
1814 The 12th of June the flag of England was put on the fortress.
1818-1864 Under protection of England.
1822 The Royal Palace gets built by commissioner Metland and the stones used came from
Malta. For all the good things
he did they build the Sterna in Spianada.
1st of November the Ionic Academy gets built.
1827 The first government in Greece (Ioannis Kapodistras)
The 23rd of September in 1863 the union of the Ionian islands with Greece.
21st of May in 1864 the Greek flag in the fortress. After the leaving of
Englishmen, King George IV came and good things starts to happened in Corfu. But the
education was very bad, only rich children went to school and the poor children did a
opposition because it started to get a difference in people. The rich ladies had good
dresses and the women in the villages had the traditional dresses on. The children of the
rich people goes to special schools but the village children didn't care for education
because the government didn’t supply the teachers. The church has a opposition
between the Orthodox and Catholic religion.
1924 The education of the children gets better.
 30th
of April 1912 War. Fellow fighters with the Greeks are the Bulgarians. The situation
starts to be strange because the Bulgarians want to win most areas from the Greeks. The
King George I gets murdered in Salonika and his son, Konstanios gets up in the throne. The
Greeks starts to get suspicious that the murder of the King might have been the work of
the Bulgarians. But suddenly the Bulgarians attack their fellow fighters the Greeks and
Serbians. And the Greeks win this fight.
The 29th of June 1913 a decease again. The people of Corfu
starts to die again.
The 18th of July 1913 signature for truce. The war of the Balkans
made Corfu loose 500 of its men.
A disaster in Little Asia in 1920 brings thousands of refugees to Corfu.
The 27th of August 1923 on the road of Ioannia (Epirus) and Argirokastron
(Albania) a Italian commissioner gets murdered. He was there to make the landmark between
Greece and Albania. This crime became to be a large political fight. The Italians blame
the Greeks.
A war between Greece and Italy starts. Iit lasted from 18th of October 1940 to
28th of April 1941. At 5:30 in the morning of the 18th of October
came the bad news for the beginning of the war. The schools stopped to work. The four
first days the people of Corfu wins against the Italians but the 4th day the
Italians bombs Igoumenitsa and Parga. 1st of November the Greek soldiers beats
the Italian army but the Greeks failed. The Italians bombs the place which is the
courthouse today (Christmas 1940) because in the underground there is a shelter for
refugees. They also got Ag.Saranta in Albania, the church of Pantokrator and the village
of Ag.Stefanos.
 The 28th of April 1943 three German airplanes drops
bombs over the old fortress and at this moment the people of Corfu think that the Germans
wants war, but then the Italians came to Corfu. Back again under the Italians. After the
capitulation with the Italians the Germans try to come to Corfu. The 13th of
September 1943 German airplanes bombs Corfu in a period of 12 days, and the Italians hits
back to the Germans. The Germans have the island now and the Germans kill 11.000 Italians
and kills them. On the 4th of October 1943 English airplanes bombs the Italian
soldier camp.
They
want settings about this accident of the murder of the Italian commissioner. The Italian
army came to Corfu and bombed it in the 31st
August 1923. The Italians made in
Corfu consultation the definitions is:
1) Take down the
Greek flag.
2) Bring up the Italian flag.
3) The commander of Corfu to be the admiral Belleni.
4) Surrender the army buildings, the soldiers and the police.
5) Give them all the weapons and store them
6) All the Greek soldiers in a building.
7) Find shelter for the Italians soldiers.
8) Stop the contact with the rest of Greece.
9) The bus and all of transports under Italians control.
10) To stop all the contacts with radio, phone, wireless. cable wire, mail.
When the mayor of
Corfu heard this settings recommended to the people of Corfu not to overreact to make this
situation more difficult. After that the Italians start to attack with bombs the castle.
From the side of castle the Italians saw white flag and the bombs stopped. They bring up
in the castle the Italian flag. The commander of Corfu is Belleni admiral. The Greek
government satisfied the settings of Italians and in the 27th September they
moved out of the island.
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