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Timeline – Greece
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c. 6000 BCE - 2900 BCE
Neolithic Age settlements in Greece, beginning of agriculture. .
c. 3200 BCE - 1100 BCE
The Cycladic Civilization in Greece.
2700 BCE - 1500 BCE
The Minoan Civilization flourishes on Crete,Greece. King Minos establishes the first navy in
the region.
2300 BCE
Bronze is used in the Aegean.
2000 BCE
Early Greeks settle the Peloponnese.
2000 BCE - 1450 BCE
Minoan civilization in Crete and the Aegean.
1900 BCE - 1100 BCE
Mycenaean civilization in Greece and theAegean.
1650 BCE - 1550 BCE
Eruption of Thera and consequent tidal waves, destruction of Akrotiri and
other Aegeancentres.
1100 BCE
Dorian peoples occupy Greece.
c. 1100 BCE
Greeks implement use of individual tombs and graves.
c. 1000 BCE
The first distinctive Greek pottery is produced, the Proto-geometric style.
c. 900 BCE
Sparta is founded.
c. 900 BCE
The Geometric style of Greek pottery is first produced.
c. 800 BCE - c. 700 BCE
Homer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey.
800 BCE - 500 BCE
Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
c. 800 BCE - 500 BCE
Archaic period of Greece.
c. 740 BCE - c. 433 BCE
Greek poleis or city-states establish colonies inMagna Graecia.
c. 734 BCE
Corinth founds the colony of Syracuse in Sicily.
683 BCE - 682 BCE
List of annual archons at Athens begins.
c. 660 BCE
Pheidon is tyrant in Argos.
c. 657 BCE - 585 BCE
The Kypselidai are tyrants of Corinth.
c. 650 BCE
Sparta crushes Messenian revolt.
650 BCE
Earliest large scale Greek marble sculpture.
650 BCE - 600 BCE
Age of law-givers in Greece.
c. 625 BCE
Black-figure pottery created in Corinth.
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c. 625 BCE - 600 BCE
The orientalizing style of Greek pottery becomes popular in Corinth.
594 BCE - 593 BCE
In Athens the archon Solon lays the foundations for democracy.
580 BCE - 376 BCE
Carthage and Greece fight for dominance inSicily.
c. 560 BCE
Pisistratos becomes tyrant in Athens for the first time.
546 BCE - 545 BCE
Persian conquest of Ionian Greek city-states.
539 BCE
Etruscan & Carthaginian alliance expels theGreeks from Corsica.
c. 530 BCE
Red-figure pottery style takes precedent over black-figure.
530 BCE
The Andokides Painter invents red-figure pottery.
530 BCE - 522 BCE
Polykrates is tyrant at Samos.
c. 525 BCE - c. 456 BCE
Life of Greek tragedy poet Aeschylus.
521 BCE
Darius I (Darius the Great) succeeds to the throne of Persia after the death of Cambyses.
514 BCE
Fall of the Peisistratid tyranny in Athens.
514 BCE
The tyrant of Athens Hipparchos is killed by Harmodios and Aristogeiton - the 'tyrannicides'.
c. 508 BCE
Reforms by Cleisthenes establishes democracy inAthens.
507 BCE
Cleisthenes establishes new form of government, Democracy, in Athens.
499 BCE - 494 BCE
Ionian cities rebel against Persian rule.
c. 498 BCE
Ionians and Greek allies invade and burn Sardis(capital of Lydia).
c. 496 BCE - c. 406 BCE
Life of Greek tragedy poet Sophocles.
c. 495 BCE
Birth of Pericles.
492 BCE
Darius I of Persia invades Greece.
11 Sep 490 BCE
A combined force of Greek hoplites defeat the Persians at Marathon.
487 BCE - 486 BCE
Archons begin to be appointed by lot in Athens.
486 BCE
Xerxes succeeds to the throne of Persia after the death of Darius I.
c. 484 BCE - 407 BCE
Life of Greek tragedy poet Euripides.
482 BCE
Themistocles persuades the Athenians to build a fleet, which saves them at Salamis and
becomes their source of power.
480 BCE - 323 BCE
The Classical Period in Greece.
Jul 480 BCE
Xerxes I makes extensive preparations to invade mainland Greece by building depots, canals
and a boat bridge across the Hellespont.
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Aug 480 BCE
Battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans under King Leonidas and other Greek allies hold back
the Persians led by Xerxes I for three days but are defeated.
Aug 480 BCE
The indecisive battle of Artemision between theGreek and Persian fleets of Xerxes I. The
Greeks withdraw to Salamis.
Sep 480 BCE
Battle of Salamis where the Greek naval fleet defeats the invading armada of Xerxes I
ofPersia.
479 BCE
Xerxes' Persian forces are defeated by Greekforces at Plataea effectively
ending Persia'simperial ambitions in Greece.
478 BCE
Sparta withdraws from alliance against Persia.
478 BCE - 404 BCE
The Delian League in Greece, led by Athens.
c. 469 BCE - 399 BCE
Life of Socrates.
c. 462 BCE - 458 BCE
Pericles introduces democratic institutions inAthens.
460 BCE - 445 BCE
First Peloponnesian War.
c. 460 BCE - c. 380 BCE
Life of Greek comic poet Aristophanes.
457 BCE
Hegemony of Athens over central Greece.
451 BCE
Thirty years peace between Argos and Sparta.
c. 451 BCE - c. 403 CE
Life of Athenian statesman and generalAlcibiades.
449 BCE - 448 BCE
Peace between Greece and Persia.
448 BCE
Ionian cities become independent from Persia.
448 BCE
The Peace of Callias with Persia.
447 BCE - 432 BCE
The construction of the Parthenon in Athens by the architects Iktinos and Kallikrates under
the direction of Pheidias.
446 BCE - 445 BCE
Thirty years peace between Athens and Peloponnesians.
431 BCE - 404 BCE
The 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athensand Sparta (the Delian League and the
Peloponnesian League) which involved all ofGreece.
427 BCE - 347 BCE
Life of Plato.
421 BCE
Peace of Nicias, a truce between the Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues.
420 BCE
Democritos develops an atomic theory of matter.
c. 415 BCE
The Histories of Herodotus is published. The work is divided into nine chapters, each
dedicated to one of the Muses.
412 BCE
Sparta allies with Persia.
404 BCE
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End of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aigospotamoi, Rule of the
Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
403 BCE
Plato turns away from politics towardphilosophy.
400 BCE
Pepper is known in Greece.
400 BCE - 330 BCE
The Late Classical Period in Greece.
399 BCE
Trial and death of the philosopher Socrates, who taught in the court of the Agora.
c. 398 BCE - c. 380 BCE
Plato travels in Egypt, Cyrene, Italy, Syracuseand Sicily.
395 BCE - 386 BCE
The Corinthian Wars between Sparta and an alliance of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Boeotia
and Thebes.
384 BCE - 322 BCE
Life of Aristotle.
380 BCE
Plato founds his Academy outside of Athens.
371 BCE
Thebes defeats Sparta in the Battle of Leuktra.
371 BCE - 362 BCE
Thebes is the dominant city-state in Greece.
359 BCE - 336 BCE
Reign of Philip II of Macedon.
21 Jul 356 BCE - 11 Jun 323 BCE
Life of Alexander the Great.
350 BCE
The Scythians have absorbed a lot of Greekculture, Scythian artefacts show Greek-style
depictions.
347 BCE
Plato dies at his Academy.
343 BCE
Aristotle becomes tutor of young Alexander.
336 BCE - 323 BCE
Reign of Alexander the Great.
334 BCE
Alexander invades the Persian empire.
331 BCE
Egypt is conquered by Alexander the Great without resistance.
323 BCE - 31 BCE
Hellenistic civilization in Greece, theMediterranean and Asia.
323 BCE - 31 BCE
The Hellenistic Age.Greek thought and culture infuses with indigenous people.
320 BCE
Last recorded examples of Attic Red-FigurePottery.
310 BCE
Assassination of Roxanne and Alexander IV, wife and son of Alexander the Great.
307 BCE
Democracy is restored in Athens.
270 BCE
Aristarchos of Samos proposes a heliocentric world view.
168 BCE
Rome defeats Macedon at Battle of Pydna.
146 BCE
Rome sacks Corinth and dissolves the Achaean league. Greece is ruled by Rome.
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146 BCE
Roman influence over Greece begins to rise.
140 BCE
Venus of Milo is completed.
88 BCE - 63 BCE
Mithridates of Pontus fights three wars to freeGreece from Rome.
86 BCE
The Roman general Sulla sacks Athens and the port of Piraeus.
31 BCE
Greece absorbed into Roman Empire.
42 CE - 62 CE
St. Paul goes on missionary journeys across Asia Minor, Greece, and Rome.
c. 50 CE - c. 60 CE
Establishment of various Christian communities in the
Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Egypt, and at least the city of Rome.
257 CE - 263 CE
The Goths raid Greece.
267 CE
The Goths sack Athens, Corinth, Sparta, andArgos.