4000 B.C.
• Bronze Age begins on Crete (c. 3400 B.C.)
• Early Minoan Period (c. 3400 B.C.-2100 B.C.)
3000 B.C.
• Middle Minoan Period (c. 2100 B.C.-1580 B.C.)
2000 B.C.
• early Minoan palaces erected at Knossos, Phaistos and Mallia (c. 2000 B.C.)
• destruction of early Minoan palaces at Crete (c. 1700 B.C.)
• Linear A in common use over Crete (c. 1600 B.C.)
• palaces rebuilt at Knossos, Phaistos, Tylissos, Hagia Triada and Gaurnia (c. 1600 B.C.)
• Late Minoan Period (c. 1580 B.C.-1250 B.C.)
• Linear B comes into use (c. 1450 B.C.)
• final destruction of Minoan palaces at Crete (c. 1450 B.C.)