Ancient Greece

Agamemnon

1000 BCE

Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War of Homer's Illiad.

Homer

850 BCE

The writer of the Odessey and the Illiad

First Olympic Games

776 BCE

An event celebrating Zeus, in which cities compete in many competitions to have the best people.

Draco’s Code of Law

620 BCE

Draco's code was a written law code created by Draco near the end of the 7th century BC in response to the unjust interpretation and modification of oral law by Athenian aristocrats.

Rise of the Tyrants

600 BCE

In 600 BCE greeks were ruled by a group of many tyrants after the public had been excluded from political life.

Darius I

522 BCE

Darius I, commonly known as Darius the Great, was the third Persian King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, reigning from 522 BCE until his death in 486 BCE.

Democracy

508 BCE

The ancient Greeks were the first to create a democracy. Athenian democracy was the first to be developed around the fifth century B.C.E. and was a form of direct democracy.

First Persian War

492 BCE

The first Persian invasion of Greece, during the Persian Wars, began in 492 BC and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.

Battle of Marathon

490 BCE

The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. Ended the first war with a decisive Persian victory.

Xerxes

486 BCE

Xerxes I, commonly known as Xerxes the Great, was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, ruling from 486 to 465 BC. He was the son and successor of Darius the Great.

Second Persian War

482 BCE

The second Persian invasion of Greece occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece.

Battle of Thermopylae

480 BCE

The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas I of Sparta, and the Achaemenid Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days. Where about 300 Spartans fought and held back the Persian army of 100s of thousands.

Socrates

470 BCE

Socrates was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.

Parthenon completed

432 BCE

Athens crowning achievement, a temple to the gods was completed.)

Peloponnesian Wars

431 BCE

The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.

Pericles

429 BCE

Pericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman and general of Athens during its golden age, specifically the time between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars

Plato

428 BCE

Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, and founder of the Academy

Catapult

400 BCE

A catapult is a ballistic device used to launch a projectile a great distance.

The Academy in Athens

386 BCE

The Academy was founded by Plato in c. 387 BC in Athens. The Academy continued throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC.

Aristotle

385 BCE

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato.

Phillip II

359 BCE

Philip II of Macedon was the king of the kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC. HE was also the father of Alexander the great.

Alexander the Great

356 BCE

Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty, and a son of Phillip II.

Battle of Chaeronea

338 BCE

The Battle of Chaeronea was fought in 338 BC, near the city of Chaeronea in Boeotia, between the Macedonians led by Philip II of Macedon and an alliance of some of the Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes.

League of Corinth

337 BCE

The League of Corinth, also referred to as the Hellenic League, was a confederation of Greek states created by Philip II during the winter of 338 BC/337 BC after the Battle of Chaeronea to fight in the war of Greece against Persia.