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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 |
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