Ancient Greece - The Archaic Period By liana.b 776 BCE First Olympic A festival and celebration of Zeus. Between city-states. 757 BCE First Messenian War 754 BCE Polydorus becomes king of Sparta 738 BCE End of the First Messanian War 735 BCE Perdiccas I of Macedon Flees from Argos to Macedonia and conquers the land. 734 BCE Polydorus sends colonists to Italy 725 BCE Lelantine War 719 BCE Polydorus Murder 690 BCE Pheidon becomes tyrant of Argos 685 BCE The Second Messanian War 665 BCE Second Messanian War ends 656 BCE Cypselus subjects Corinth to tyranny 645 BCE Spartan wars with Tegea all unsuccessful 642 BCE Battus establishes a Greek colony in Cyrene in Libya 632 BCE Cylon sezies Acropolis 621 BCE Draco issues code of laws, with many crimes punishable by death 594 BCE Solon becomes Archon 590 BCE Sappho flourishes on island of Lesbos 569 BCE Pythagoras is born 565 BCE Peisistratos organizes Diakrioi, party of poor people 525 BCE Persian Cambyses II takes Egypt 515 BCE Hippias becomes sole ruler 507 BCE Cleisthenes takes power, increases democracy 490 BCE Themisotcles and Militades defeat Darius at Marathon.
