| 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 Atatürk) born in Salonica |
| 1881 | 24 May | New border with Greece. Thessaly ceded to Greece |
| 1888 | | All Riza, Mustafa’s father, dies |
| 1893 | | Mustafa enters military preparatory school in Salonica |
| 1897 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | Passes away. |
