Ancient Greece Timeline

Ancient Greece Timeline


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2900 BC 2900-2000 BC: The Bronze Age when Early Aegean cultures start to emerge
2500 BC The great Minoan civilization
1200 BC The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium)
1050 BC 1050-750 BC: The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture
850 BC 850 - 700 BC: Development of the first Greek Alphabet
776 BC The First Olympic Games are staged
750 BC 750 -700 BC: Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey
730 BC 730-710 BC - the First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia
650 BC The Rise of the Greek tyrants
621 BC Draco's code of law is introduced
600 BC Greek Coin currency introduced
500 BC 500-323 BC - The Greek Classical Period
505 BC Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens
490 BC Greek / Persian Wars led by Xerxes
468 BC Sophocles writes his first tragedy
461 BC 461-446 BC: The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens
449 BC 449 -432: Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens
441 BC Euripides writes his first tragedy
443 BC 443 - 429 BC Pericles leads Athens
430 BC Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens
431 BC Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens
420 BC 420 - 410: Construction of Temple of Athena Nike
399 BC Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants
386 BC Plato founds the Academy
384 BC Aristotle is born
359 BC Philip II becomes the king of the Greeks
356 BC Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born
333 BC Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at Issus and is given Egypt by the Persian Satrap where he builds a capital at Alexandria and founds the great library
 
323 BC Alexander the Great dies at Babylon
323 BC 323 -31 BC: The Hellenistic Period
224 BC Earthquake destroys the Colossus of Rhodes
200 BC 200 - 196 BC: First Roman victory over Greece
197 BC King Philip V of Greece loses to Roman forces at Kynoskephalai
86 BC The Roman General Sulla captures Athens
33 AD Crucifixion of Jesus and the origin of Christianity
267 AD The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth
286 AD The Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman empire in two forming modern Greece (the Byzantine Empire)
 
641 AD The Slavs overrun Greece


Ancient Greece Timeline

Ancient Greece Timeline
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