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 - Rita Abatzi
- 1915 - Vasilis Tsitsanis
- 1917 - Michalis Jenitsaris
- 1918 - Marika Ninou
- 1920 - Manolis Hiotis
Deaths
- 1942 - Iovan Tsaous
- 1943 - Vangelis Panazoglou
- 1956 - Marika Ninou
- 1966 - Spyros Peristeris
- 1967 - Giorgos Batis
- 1969 - Rita Abatzi
- 1972 - Markos Vamvakaris
- 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 the bouzouki in Greece by Giorgos Batis. The disc is not released right away.
- 1934 - Markos Vamvakaris recordsτο "Na'rhosouna re manga mou", the first rebetiko disc to be released.
- 1947 - Vasilis Tsitsanis records "Synefiasmeni Kyriaki"