HISTORICAL TIMELINE
1366
Emperor John V Palaiologos endorses with a ‘chrysovoulon’ the donations to the Monastery of John the Baptist of New Petra (the former name of the monastery) in Lemnos, by George Astras and Michael Ierakis.
1374
Founding ‘chrysovoulon’ of Emperor of Trebizond Alexios III Komninos the Great.
1378
Pirate invasion and captivity of all monks, while Saint Dionysios visits Trebizond for the second time.
1389
Proclamation of the Monastery to a patriarchate by a siggilium of the Ecumenical Patriarch Anthony II.
1390
Assumption of Saint Dionysius, the founder, in Trebizond.
1416
Abbot Andronikos Paleologos visits the Monastery and is so impressed that he grants it with significant land areas.
1508
Assumption of St. Niphon.
1520
Financing of the construction of the aqueduct and the tower by the ruler Neagoe Bassarab.
1535
A devastating fire burns most of the monastery on Sunday, October 25th.
1547
The rebuilding and frescoing of the Cathedral is completed with expenses of Moldavian Peter Rares.
1715
A flood destroys, among other things, the aqueduct, the mill, the well, the gardens, the nine-story house, and a house on the male (on September 15th).
1765
Thursday, November 3rd ‘… It was a great earthquake, so the foundations of the monastery were torn from the top to the bottom …’ writes the abbot Chrysanthos.
1820
The third and largest flood destroys the aqueduct, the mill along with the miller monk, the well near the chapel of the Holy Apostles, the hostel, uprooted all the trees, all the cobblestones, the gardens, strangled the garden and caused great damage to the ‘Arsanas’ (on September 2nd or 18th).
1821
The monastery offers its great cannon for the revolution in Halkidiki and Abbot Stefanos, with some of the monks, escorts the most important relics first to Ammouliani and then to Poros. They lodge at the Monastery of Zoodochos Pigi until the destruction of Psara, when they are forced to flee to Zakynthos, the Dionysian “metochion” of Hagia Sophia. After Kapodistrias’ arrival, they go to Faneromeni’s metropolis in Skopelos. In 1830, those who survived returned permanently to the Monastery.