6000-5500 B.C: Neolithic Period

5500-3000 B.C: Chalcolithic Period

3000-2000 B.C: First Bronze Age

2000-1700 B.C: Middle Bronze Age

1700-1200 B.C: Kizuvatna Kingdom

1200-612 B.C: Kue/Qoah Kingdom

546-333 B.C: Persian Kingdom

301-101 B.C: Seleucid Empire

101 B.C-395 A.D: Roman Empire

395-661 A.D: Byzantine Empire

661 A.D: Muaviye took over some regions in İçel.

685-960 A.D: Byzantine Empire and Arabs claim to rule the region.

960 A.D: Byzantine Empire took over the region.

1124: Armenians occupied Tarsus

1224: Anatolian Seljuqs Period

1254: Karamanoğulları Period

1357: Karamanoğulları Principality took over Silifke.

1473: Gedik Ahmet Pasha takes over Silifke in the name of Ottoman Empire.

1516: Ottoman Empire took over Mersin and Tarsus.

1852: Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt took over Mersin.

1859: Ottoman Empire took over Mersin.

17 December 1918: English occupation of Mersin.

19 December 1918: French occupation of Tarsus.

02 January 1919: French occupation of Mersin.

20 July 1920: Bağlar War with French

05 August 1920: Pozantı Congress

20 December 1921: Treaty of Ankara (Occupying forces withdrew.)

27 December 1921: Liberation of Tarsus

03 January 1922: Liberation of Mersin

17 March 1923: Atatürk visits Mersin.

1924: Mersin became a province.

1933: Mersin was joined with Silifke, county town of İçel and it was officially declared to be a city.

2002: City name was changed from İçel to Mersin.