Parthenon1

Ancient Greece

  • 323 BC
    323

    323 BC

    Alexander the Great dies
  • 404 BC
    404

    404 BC

    Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends
  • 431 BC
    431

    431 BC

    The Peloponnesian War begins – Sparta and her allies vs Athens and her allies
  • 432 BC
    432

    432 BC

    The Parthenon is completed
  • 776 BC
    Jan 1, 776

    776 BC

    First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games )
  • 1100 BC
    Jan 1, 1100

    1100 BC

    The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed on the Asia Minor coast.
  • 1400 BC
    Jan 1, 1400

    1400 BC

    Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World
  • 2000 BC

    2000 BC

    Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive ( first known Greek‐speaking tribes )
  • 800 BC

    800 BC

    Homer writes the ILIAD
  • 509 BC

    509 BC

    Democracy develops
  • 490 BC

    490 BC

    First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
  • 480 BC

    480 BC

    Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they are triumphant at SALAMIS and PLATAEA
  • 338 BC

    338 BC

    Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece
  • 329 BC

    329 BC

    Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
  • 329 BC

    329 BC

    Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
  • 187 BC

    187 BC

    Rome conquers Greece
  • 899 - 800

    899 - 800

    New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop