1984 - 1987
Example #1
2004 -
Example #2
3000 - 1100
Mycenaeans enter mainland Greece
2000 - 1700
Height of Minoan civilisation
1200 - 1184
Trojan War
1100 -
End of Mycenaen era. Beginning of city states ruled by monarchies. Greek colonization of the Agaen coast
850 -
Homer composes the Iliad and Odyssey
776 -
First Olympics
750 -
Greek colonization of Southern Italy. Greek alphabet developed. Homeric poems written down. Geometric vase painting
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630 -
Sappho, the poet, born in Lesbos
625 -
Thales, founder of geometry, born in Miletos
621 -
Draconian law established
594 -
Draconian laws replaced by Solon's reforms
569 -
Pythagoras, mathematician, born in Samos
546 -
Peisistratus becomes tyrant of Athens
508 -
Cleisthenes established democratic constitution
500 -
Heraclitus, Philosopher, born
498 -
Pindar, the poet, writes the earliest poems
497 - 490
First Persian war, Darius defeated at Marathon (490 BCE). Herodotus born
480 -
Second Persian war, Xerxes marches on Greece, battle of Thermopylae - final stand of the 300 Spartans. Athens burned. Naval battle at Salamis, Xerxes defeated
477 -
Delian league formed
472 -
The Persians by Aeschylus wins at City-Dionysia
461 - 445
First Peloponnesian war
460 - 429
Pericles leads Athens' golden age
458 -
Aeschylus wins first prize Oresteia
449 -
Construction of the Parthenon starts
446 -
Thirty year peace tready ends first Peloponnesian war
441 -
Sophocles writes Antigone
431 -
Euripedes writes Medea. Second Peloponnesian war begins. Thucydides begins history of the war.
430 -
Athens' plague
429 -
Pericles dies in the plague epidemic
424 -
Sophocles wins second prize for Oedipus Rex
421 -
Peace of Nicius between Athens and Sparta
418 -
Athens resumes war
413 -
Syracuse defeats Athens
411 -
Aristophanes writes Lysistrata
405 -
Aristophanes writes The Frogs
404 -
Athens surrenders to Sparta, ruled by 30 tyrants
403 -
Democracy restored
399 -
Trial and execution of Socrates
380 -
Plato establishes the Academy school
338 -
Macedonia defeats Athens
336 -
Alexander becomes king of Macedonia
335 -
Aristotle establishes the Lyceum
334 - 326
Alexander the Great establishes empire stretching from Egypt to India
323 -
Alexander dies
310 -
Zeno the Stoic founds school in Athens
307 -
Epicurus founds school in Athens
146 -