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Ancient Greece Timeline

  • 322

    322BC

    322BC
    322BC Aristotle dies
  • 323

    323 BC

    323 BC
    323 BC Alexander the Great dies
  • 404

    404BC

    404BC
    404 BC Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends
  • 404

    404BC

    404BC
    480 BC Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they are triumphant at SALAMIS and PLATAEA.
  • 431

    431BC

    431BC
    431 BC The Peloponnesian War begins – Sparta and her allies vs Athens and her allies
  • 432

    432BC

    432BC
    432 BC The Parthenon temple is completed
  • 432

    483 BC

    483 BC
    483 BC Athens begin building naval fleet
  • Jul 19, 625

    625 BC

    625 BC
    625 BC Thales born in Miletos
  • Jul 19, 630

    630 BC

    630 BC
    630 BC Sappho born in Lesbos
  • Jul 19, 776

    776BC

    776BC
    776 BC First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games )
  • Jul 19, 1100

    1100BC

    1100BC
    1100 BC The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed on the Asia Minor coast.
  • Jul 19, 1250

    1250BC

    1250BC
    1250BC Trojan War ended
  • Jul 19, 1400

    1400BC

    1400BC
    1400 BC Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World
  • Jul 19, 1550

    1550 BC

    1550 BC
    1550 BC Tholos Tomb was builed at Mycenae
  • 1627 BC

    1627 BC
    1627 BC Eruption of Thera volcano
  • 2000BC

    2000BC
    2000 BC Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive ( first known Greek‐speaking tribes )
  • 187 BC

    187 BC
    187 BC Rome conquers Greece
  • 329 BC

    329 BC
    329 BC Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
  • 338 BC

    338 BC
    338 BC Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece
  • 490BC

    490BC
    490 BC First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
  • 509BC

    509BC
    509 BC Democracy develops
  • 800BC

    800BC
    800 BC Homer writes the ILIAD
  • 899-800 BC

    899-800 BC
    899‐800 BC New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop
  • 483 BC

    483 BC Silver mines is discovered near Athens.
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