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267
267 AD
The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth -
323
323 BC 323 -31 BC
The Hellenistic Period -
323
323BC
Alexander the Great dies at Babylon -
356
356 BC
Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born -
404
404 BC S
Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends -
420
420 BC 420 - 410
Construction of Temple of Athena Nike -
430
430 BC
Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens -
431
431 BC
Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens -
432
432 BC
The Parthenon is completed -
441
441 BC
Euripides writes his first tragedy -
461
461 BC 461-446 BC
The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens -
500
500 BC 500-323 BC
The Greek Classical Period -
Jan 1, 600
600 BC
Greek Coin currency introduced -
Jan 1, 621
621 BC
Draco's code of law is introduced -
Jan 1, 650
650 BC
The Rise of the Greek tyrants -
Jan 1, 730
730 BC 730-710 BC
The First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia -
Jan 1, 776
776 BC
The First Olympic Games are staged -
Jan 1, 1050
1050 BC 1050-750 BC
The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture -
Jan 1, 1100
1100 BC
The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed on the Asia Minor coast. -
Jan 1, 1200
1200 BC
The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium) -
Jan 1, 1400
1400 BC
Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World -
505 BC
Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens -
490 BC
Greek Persian Wars led by Xerxes -
490 BC
First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon -
443 - 429 BC
Pericles leads Athens -
432 BC
The Parthenon is completed -
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 -
899‐800 BC
New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop -
850 BC 850 - 700 BC
Development of the first Greek Alphabet -
800 BC
Homer writes the ILIAD -
509 BC
Democracy develops -
480 BC
Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they are triumphant at SALAMIS and PLATAEA -
490 BC
Greek Persian Wars led by Xerxes -
490 BC
First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon -
399 BC
Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants -
386 BC
Plato founds the Academy -
384 BC
Aristotle is born -
329 BC
Alexander conquers the Persian Empire -
468 BC
Sophocles writes his first tragedy -
338 BC
Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece -
449 BC 449 -432
Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens -
2500BC
The great Minoan civilization -
2900BC
The Bronze Age when Early Aegean cultures start to emerge
