Timeline of Rebetika

Some milestones in the history of rebetiko are listed below:

Births

 * 1885 – Georgios Batis, Maria Panagia
 * 1893 – Iovan Tsaous
 * 1897 – Vangelis Papazoglou
 * 1900 – Spyros Peristeris
 * 1903 – Dimitris Gongos
 * 1905 – Markos Vamvakaris
 * 1914 – Yiannis Papaioannou
 * 1914 – Rita Abatzi
 * 1915 – Vassilis Tsitsanis
 * 1917 – Michalis Jenitsaris
 * 1918 – Marika Ninou
 * 1920 – Manolis Hiotis

Deaths

 * 1942 – Iovan Tsaous
 * 1943 – Vangelis Papazoglou
 * 1956 – Marika Ninou
 * 1966 – Spyros Peristeris
 * 1967 – Giorgos Batis
 * 1969 – Rita Abatzi
 * 1972 – Markos Vamvakaris
 * 1972 – Yiannis Papaioannou
 * 1980 – Roza Eskenazi
 * 1984 -Vassilis Tsitsanis
 * 1997 -Soteria Bellou
 * 2005 – Michalis Jenitsaris

Events

 * 1922 – Asia Minor Disaster
 * 1923 – Treaty of Lausanne and population exchanges between Greece and Turkey.
 * 1933 – The first recording with bouzouki in Greece by Giorgos Batis. The disc is not released right away.
 * 1934 – Markos Vamvakaris records "Na'rhosouna re manga mou", his first disc.
 * 1947 – Vassilis Tsitsanis records "Synefiasmeni Kyriaki"