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Ancient Greek Timeline
6000-3000 BCE - Neolithic Era
3300-1000 BCE - The earliest known prehistoric civilizations occupy the Aegean world
2300 BCE - Full European Bronze Age Begins
2200 BCE - Indo-European invaders and the Mycenaean Civilization emerges
2000-1500 BCE - Minoan Civilization reaches its height
1650 BCE - Catastrophic volcanic eruption at Thera
1600 BCE - Rise of Mycenean Civilization on mainland Greece
c.1450 BCE - First destruction of Minoan Crete
1400 BCE - Horse drawn chariot emerges
1250 BCE - Battle of Troy?
1200 BCE - Battle of Troy?
c.1200 BCE - Collapse of Mycenean Civilization and Second destruction of Minoan Crete
1150 BCE - Dorian Immigration into Greece mainland (VERY CONTROVERSIAL)
1150 - 1100 BCE - Aeolian Immigrations begin to Asia Minor
1088 BCE - Death of Codrus, last king of Athens
1050 BCE - Protogeometric style
900 BCE - Geometric style
900 BCE - End of Greek Dark Age
800-700 BCE - Rise of the Poleis
776 BCE - Olympic Games established
754 BCE - First Spartan ephor recorded
752/1 BCE - Archonship in Athens made into a ten year office
c750 BCE - Alphabetic script adapted from Phoenician alphabet
c.750 BCE - Spread of Greek colonization throughout Mediterranean and Black Sea
725 BCE - Spartans turn the Messenians into Helots
700 BCE - Orientalizing style
700 BCE - Beginning of Archaic period in Greece
682/1 BCE - Archonship in Athens made into an annual office
676 BCE - Great Rhetra: Political Reforms in Sparta
c. 650 BCE - Rise of the tyrants and reforms of Lycurgus in Sparta
640 BCE - Second Messinian War
632 BCE - Cylon tried to become tyrant
c. 624 BC- Draco codifies Athenian law
c. 620-600 BCE - Aegina mints first silver staters
612 BCE - Draco and birth of Sappho
600 BCE - Coinage introduced
594 BCE - Solon elected sole archon
566 BCE - Panathenaic festivals established
566/5 BCE - Construction of first Propylaea and Altar of Athena Nike on Acropolis
c. 560 BCE - First Coinage in Athens and dominance of Black Figure Ware
546 BCE - Persia defeats Lydian Empire
546 BCE - Peisistratus, replaces Solon as ruler
530 BCE - Pythagoras and his followers found the city of Croton
c. 534 BCE - Great Dionysia founded
525 BCE - Greek drama grows out of the Dionysian festivals
521 BCE - Darius, King of Persia
514 BCE - Assassination of Hipparchus by Harmodius and Aristogeiton
510 BCE - Hippias, the son of Peisistratus, succeeds his father and is overthrown by a group of nobles with the help of Sparta.
508 BCE - Cleisthenes, the father of Athenian democracy, rules Athens
c. 505 BCE -Cleisthenes founds democracy in Athens
500 BCE - The height of Greek sculpture begins with the work of Phidias
499-494 BCE - Ionian Revolt is crushed by Darius, King of Persia
496 BCE - Birth of Sophocles
490 BCE - Battle of Marathon
489 BCE - Trial and death of Miltiades
487 BCE - Ostracism introduced
486 BCE - Comedy is introduced into the Great Dionysia
485 BCE - Accompanying the high point of democracy in Athens is a Greek intellectual revolution, with its beginnings in Sophism.
485 BCE - Death of Darius; Xerxes becomes King of Persia
483 BCE - Athens makes a big Silver Strike at the Laurion mines and Themistokles persuades Athenians to build a fleet with the money
480 BCE - Battles of Salamis and Plataea, Persians defeated
477 BCE - Delian League
462 BCE - Pericles persecutes Cimon
460 BCE - 1st Peloponnesian War
458 BCE - Aeschylus' Oresteia wins 18th 1st prize (only surviving trilogy!)
457 BCE - Athenian long walls completed
454 BCE - Athens moves the Delian League Treasury to Athens
450 BCE - Trial and departure of Anaxagoras on charge of atheism
449 BCE - Peace of Callias begins temporary end to Athenian-Persian hostility
447 BCE - Parthenon built under Pericles
446 BCE - Beginning 30 year's peace
c. 444 BCE - Protagoras arrives in Athens
430 BCE - The plague hits Athens
429 BCE - Death of Pericles from the plague
425 BCE - Athenian victory over the Spartans at Sphakteria but Cleon rejects peace offer from the Spartans
425 BCE - Alcibiades breaks Peace of Nicias
424 BCE - Historian Thucydides exiled for poor military performance
416 BCE - The Athenian army brutally quashes revolt on Melos
415 BCE - Sicilian Expedition begins (Alcibiades/Nicias in charge)
415 BCE - Alcibiades goes over to the Spartan side
415 BCE - Mutilation of herms in Athens (act of gross impiety)
415 BCE - Protagoras on trial in Athens for impiety
413 BCE - The Athenian navy is destroyed at Sicily
411 BCE - Oligarchy takes over in Athens
406 BCE - Athens victorious in sea-battle at Arginusae
405 BCE - Sparta destroys Athenian fleet at Aegospotami
404 BCE - Athens surrenders. Sparta wins Peloponnesian War
405 BCE - The Thirty (another oligarchy) takes over in Athens
403 BCE - Democracy is restored in Athens
399 BCE - Trial and death of Socrates
395 BCE - Death of Thucydides
395-387 BCE - Corinthian War
386 BCE - Death of Aristophanes
384 BCE - Birth of Aristotle and Demosthenes
392 BCE - Romans begin conquest of Italy
371 BCE - Thebes defeats Sparta at Leuctra
360 BCE - Plato founds his Academy
355 BCE - Philip of Macedon begins conquest of Greece
347 BCE - Death of Plato
338 BCE - Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great's father, conquers Greece and is succeeded by his son two years later
336 BCE - Philip assassinated
333 BCE - Battle of Issus-Alexander
323 BCE: - Alexander leaves no successors, and the highest generals engage in many wars which result in four major states under the separate rules of Seleucus, Lysimachus, Cassander and Ptolemy
322 BCE - Death of Demosthenes and Aristotle
301 BCE - Battle of Ipsus
310 BCE - Hellenistic astronomy is founded by Aristarchus of Samos
300 BCE - Epicureanism and Stoicism both originate in Athens
215-169 BCE - Macedonian Wars
200 - 196 BCE - First Roman victories over Greece
148 BCE - Macedonia becomes a Roman providence
146-30 BCE - Between these years, nearly all Hellenistic territory becomes subject to Roman rule
86 BCE - Athens is sacked by Sulla
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