title: Timeline of Rebetika
text: # 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"
  