Ancient Greece By bigw3 776 BCE 776 BC The Olympic games start. 490 BCE 490 BC First Persian Invasion 432 BCE 432 BC The Parthenon is completed 431 BCE 431 BC Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athen 431 BCE 431 BC The Peloponnesian War begins 404 BCE 404 BC Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends 359 BCE 359 BC Philip II becomes the king of the Greek 356 BCE 356 BC Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born 329 BCE 329 BC Alexander conquers the Persian Empire 323 BCE 323 BC Alexander the Great dies