1941 Event Germany occupies Kreta 1941 Event British troops vacate Kreta 1941 Event German capture Kreta 1941 Event British army begins evacuation of Kreta 1941 Event Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta 1941 Event German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta 1941 Event Operation Merkur: Hitler orders conquest of Kreta 1676 Death Ahmed Koprulu, Turkish great vizer (siege of Candia, Kreta), dies 1410 Death Alexander V, Petros Philargi, Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies
