2008
Malta adopt the Euro, the EU common currency, with its own coins. (1.1.)

2008
After the Schengen agreement comes into force, the border controls also fell off. (21.12.)

2004
Malta, joined the European Union with nine other countries (EU). (1.5.)

1999
Professor de Marco Guide is elected president.

1998
The early nationalists win the elections. They renew Maltas application for EU membership. Prime Minister is again Eddie Fenech-Adami.

1996
Election victory of the Labor Party (Socialists). It holds its election promises and pulls the application for EU membership back.

1990
Malta brings forward the formal application for full membership in the EU.

1987
After 16 years, the Nationalist Party take over the governing Labor Party. Eddie Fenech-Adami is the new prime minister.

1979
The last British troops leave Malta.

1974
Malta declares itself a republic.

1971
The Socialist Dom Mintoff becomes Prime Minister (until 1984). He wants to lead Malta from the economic and political dependence of the West (especially the UK) into a block-free future. Libya is close partner.

1964
Malta becomes an independant government in the Commonwealth.

1940-43
During the Second World War, Malta is target of the heaviest air raids of southern Europe. Thousands of homes are destroyed. For months, the island is cut off from any supplies and experienced a terrible famine. For the heroic defense, the King of Britain award Malta the George Cross", which since then has adorned the national flag.

1934
Maltese is an official language alongside English.

1921
After the "Sette-Guigno" riots in 1919, due to price increases, Great Britain granted Malta its own Constitution and a part self-government.

1914-18
Malta gained importance for the British fleet and as a station hospital.

1869
With the opening of the Suez Canal increases the importance of Malta as a port and bunker station.

1848
The British Navy put the first dry dock in Malta into operation.

1827
Malta becomes headquarters of the British Mediterranean Fleet.

1814
Malta becomes British Crown Colony. This activates, especially in the second half of the century, an economic boom as a trading port and a British naval base in Malta.

1800
The English come at the request of the Maltese. By blocking, Lord Nelson achieved the capitulation of the French.

1798
Napoleon conquered Malta and remain six days on the island. The Johanniter draw from, monasteries and churches are looted.

1775
The people try unsuccessfully to revolt against the since 1530 existing Johanniter domination.

1676
The plague raged in Valletta and the surrounding area and claims more than 10,000 victims.

1571
Valletta becomes the capital of Malta.

1566
Construction of Valletta, the city from the drawing board. Malta is expanded to a bulwark of Christianity against the Islamic empires. In the 17th Century, Valletta is the strongest fortress in Europe.

1565
The Turks besiege the new headquarters of the knightly order for three months in vain.

1530
The Johanniterorden take over Malta and Gozo.

1524
Emperor Charles V. offers the Maltese Islands as a new domicile to the Johanitter, who were expelled from the Ottomans from Rhodes.

1412-1530
Malta belongs to the Spanish kings.

1284-1412
Malta belongs to the heir to the throne of Peter of Aragon.

1268-1284
Malta belongs to the French Earls of Anjou, who expel the last Germans.

1194-1268
After the extonction of the Norman Kings, the German Hohenstaufen take over the domination.

1090-1194
The Normans harried the Arabs away. The Arabic language remains and Islam is only slowly replaced by Christianity.

870-1090
The Arabs conquere Malta and bring cotton, lemons and figs in. They also bring the Arabic language and Islam.

535-870
The Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian has conquered the Maltese Islands and Sicily for Byzantium by his commander Belisar.

476-535
The Western Roman Empire collapses. Goths and Vandals conquer the islands.

395-476
As a result of the Roman partition, the Maltese Islands are allocated to the Western Roman Empire, together with Sicily, whose fate they share until the arrival of the Johanniter.

60 after Christ
The apostle Paul suffers on the road to the Roman captivity shipwreck off Malta (St. Paul's Islands). He remains three months on the islands and converts the population to Christianity.

218 BC
The Romans conquere Malta in the Second Punic War. Malta (Melita) and Gozo (Gaulus) are part of the Roman Empire. The Phoenician language remains, which builds the basis of today's language.

600 BC
Carthage, originally a Phoenician colony, takes over the Maltese Islands and controls the shipping in the western Mediterranean Sea.

1000 BC
Phoenician colonization. The maritime people of the eastern Mediterranean Sea use the safe harbor (malet = refuge) as a trading base.

2000 before Christ (Bronze)
Resettlement of the islands. Cart traces are created. They look like the parallel furrows, are up to 75 cm deep and overwrought once the whole island. Presumably these were due to load trucks on stone runners.

4500 BC (Copper Age)
Era of the temple builders. In Malta and Gozo mysterious huge stone buildings are built, which resemble replicas of overground burrow sanctuaries.

5200 BC (Neolithic)
In the Neolithic Age (Neolithic) probably the first settlers from Sicily immigrate by sea to Malta and Gozo.