Ancient Greece By harriet 323 Alexander the Great dies 404 Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends 431 The Peloponnesian War begins – Sparta and her allies vs Athens and her allies 432 The Parthenon is completed Jan 1, 776 First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games ) Jan 1, 1400 Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World Jan 1, 2000 Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive Jan 1, 2011 The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed onthe Asia Minor coast. Mar 2, 2022 New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop 899BC-800 Mar 2, 2022 Homer writes the ILIAD Mar 2, 2022 Democracy develops Mar 2, 2022 First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon Mar 2, 2022 Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they are triumphant at SALAMIS and PLATAEA Mar 2, 2022 Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece Mar 2, 2022 Alexander conquers the Persian Empire Mar 2, 2022 Rome conquers Greece