Time line

• 963 - The first monastery on Mt. Athos is founded by St. Athanasius.
• 979 - The second monastery, the Monastery of the Annunciation, is founded by three monks, Athanasius, Nicholas, and Antonius from Adrianople, pupils of St. Athanasius.
• 1000 - Upon the death of St. Athanasius, his monastery is renamed St. Athanasius
• St. John the Iberian - built by Georgians
• St. Sava - Serbian
• St. John the Baptist
• Holy Cross
• Transfiguration
• Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
• St. George the Painter Bulgarian
• Holy Archangels
• Sts. Peter and Paul
• St. Philotheus
• New Bethlehem
• Presentation
• St. Nicholas
• St. Xenophon
• St. Gregory
• Ascension
• St. Panteleimon Russian
• St. Stephen