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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

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