End of 5th c. BC: Mazaca was probably the seat of dynast Camisaris and then of the satrap Datamis.
First quarter of the 4th c. BC: Mazaca was probably the seat of dynast Aspis
c. 255-17 BC: Capital of the Cappadocian kingdom
220-164/163 BC: Hegemony of Ariarathes IV Eusebes. The city was renamed to Eusebeia on Argaios.
81 BC: Destruction of the city by Tigranes the Great and banishment of the residents to Mesopotamia and Tigranocerta.
69 BC: Return of the residents of Mazaca to their city.
63 BC: The end of the Mithridatic wars. Restoration works by Pompey.
47 BC: Caesar’s visit.
12-9 BC: The city is named Caesarea.
14-37 to 193-217: Caesarea is the seat of the Koinon of Cappadocia.
17: Caesarea is the capital of the Roman Province of Cappadocia and the seat of the imperial mint.
180-192: Hegemony of the emperor Commodus. Caesarea is appointed the titles of Metropolis and Neocoros. Celabration of the festival Commodeion.
193-217: Hegemony of the Severus dynasty. Earliest testimony of the nomination of the title neocoros.
204/205: Inauguration of the festival Philadelpheia Severeia