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| c. 7000 BC |
| | | Neolithic communities in eastern Anatolia make implements of hammered copper - the first tentative step out of the Stone Age | |
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | Catal Huyuk, in Anatolia, is the most extensive surviving example of a neolithic town | |
|  | Catal Huyuk, wall painting
Photograph James & Arlette Mellaart
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk has rectangular rooms with windows, a design with lasting appeal | |
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | Pottery fragments of this date survive in the neolithic site of Catal Huyuk | |
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| c. 5800 BC |
| | | Fragments of cloth, woven in Catal Huyuk, survive because they are carbonized in a fire | |
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| c. 1700 BC |
| | | The Hittites build an empire based on their stronghold at Hattusa (now Bogazkale) in Anatolia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Hittites, in Anatolia, are the first people to work iron - introducing what is later called the Iron Age | |
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| c. 1200 BC |
| | | Palaces in Mycenae are destroyed, probably by the so-called Sea Peoples from the west and south coasts of Turkey | |
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| c. 1250 BC |
| | | Not for the first time, the city of Troy is destroyed - on this occasion probably by Mycenaean Greeks | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | Ionia emerges as a political entity, forming a league of twelve Greek cities in Asia Minor | |
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