- 9000 BC - Cataclysm destroys Atlantis (based on Plato's writings)
- 1500 BC - Volcanic eruption destroys Thera and possibly brings an end to the Minoan civilization
- 360 BC - Plato writes Timaeus and Critias
- 1882 - Atlantis - The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly is released
- 1924 - The Problem of Atlantis by Lewis Spence is released
- 1960 - A. G. Galanopoulos discoveres the ruins of ancient cities on Thera
- 1968 - The Bimini Wall is discovered
