- 720 BC: A Phoenician colony is founded on present-day Malta.
- 439 BC: Phoenicia is conquered by Persia, losing the ties with Malta.
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Carthagian Empire
- 332 BC: The islands becomes as Maleth part of Carthago.
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Roman Republic
- 218 BC: Malta is conquered by and annexed to Rome.
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Roman Empire
- 27 BC: Gaius Octavianus becomes sole ruler of Rome and as Augustus the first emperor.
- 395: After the death of emperor Theodosius I, the Roman Empire is partitioned in the (Eastern) Roman Empire and the (Western) Roman Empire.Malta becomes part of the Western part of the Empire.
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Kingdom of the Vandals and the Alans
- 454: Malta might be conquered by the Vandals.
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Kingdom of the Goths and the Romans
- 494: Malta is said to be conquered by the Goths.
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Roman Empire
- 533: The Byzantines under Belisarius retake North Africa and Malta.
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Arab Caliphate
- 870: Malta is conquered by theArab Aghlabids of Ifriqiya.
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Fatimid Caliphate
- 909: Malta becomes part of the Emirate of Sicily within the Fatimid Caliphate.
- 1071: After the loss of Sicily, Malta remains part of the Fatimid Caliphate.
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County of Sicily
- 1091: Malta is conquered by Normans, who add the islands to Sicily.
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Kingdom of Sicily
- 1130: Sicily becomes a kingdom.
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| Sovereign Military Order of Malta
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- 1798: Malta is conquered by France.
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Gozo
- 1798: The Maltese island of Gozo is liberated and becomes independent with king Ferdinando IV of Sicily as ruler.
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British Protectorate of Malta → Great Britain/United Kingdom
- 1800: Malta is conquered by the United Kingdom and becomes a British protectorate, while being legally part of Sicily.
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- 1801: Gozo is annexed to Malta.
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Crown Colony of the Island of Malta and its Dependencies → United Kingdom
- 1814: Malta becomes a British crown colony. Malta gets a governor appointed by the king who governs Malta without letting Maltese participate.
- 1849: Malta gets an own government under British rule. Starting with that year, the Government Council has 8 out of 18 members elected.
- 1888: Most of the members of the Government Council are directly elected.
- 1904: All seats in the Government Council are directly elected.
- 1921: Malta gets home rule with a bicameral parliament with a chamber elected in free multi-party elections on a limited suffrage, and a senate.
- 1930: The constitution is suspended.
- 1934: The constitution is abolished and the parliament is dissolved. Malta is under direct colonial administration. The cabinet is dismissed.
- 1941: Nazi Germany attacks during World War II Malta.
- 1943: The German and Italian forces in North Africa, Tunisia are defeated, followed by the invasion of Italy by the United States and the United Kingdom. After a coup d'état Italy declares war on Germany and Nazi Germany invades Italy, which brings and end to the attacks on Malta.
- 1946: The new constitution stipulates a parliament elected in free multi-party elections on a universal suffrage and a government responsible to the parliament.
- 1958: The constitution is suspended and Malta is placed under direct colonial administration.
- 1962: The 1946 constitution is more or less restored, leading to a parliament elected in free multi-party elections and a government responsible to the parliament.
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| State of Malta
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| Republic of Malta
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