Ancient Greece timeline

By sfinney
  • 404

    404 BC, Peloponnesian war ends

    Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends. the war went for 27 years.
  • 431

    431 BC, Peloponnesian War begins

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

    432 BC, parthenon

    The Parthenon is completed
  • Jan 1, 776

    776 BC, 1st olympic games

    First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games ) The Greeks invented athletic contests and held them in honour of their gods.
  • Jan 1, 1100

    1100 BC, first Greek settlement

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

    1400 BC, Mycenaean

    Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World

  • 2000 BC, first known greek speaking tribes

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

  • 800 BC, Homer

    Homer writes the ILIAD. (poem) it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

  • 323 BC, alexander the great dies

    Alexander the Great dies, 356 – 323 BC

  • 8990-800 BC, alphabet

    New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop. The Greek alphabet is over 2500 years old.

  • 509 BC, demorcracy

    Democracy develops in ancient Greece.

  • 490 BC, 1st persian invasion

    First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon. it wen for 2 years.

  • 480 BC, 2nd persian invasion

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

  • 338 BC, philip II

    Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece

  • 329 BC, alexander

    Alexander conquers the Persian Empire

  • 187 BC, Rome conquers Greece

    Rome conquers Greece along with other countries