Ancient Greece Timeline

  • Death of Alexander the great
    323

    Death of Alexander the great

    He died in the year of 323 BC because he was seriously ill with a fever at Babylon.
  • Work on the parthenon begins
    447

    Work on the parthenon begins

    Perciles built the Parthenon in Athens in 447 BC. Perciles needed money so he stole from the treasury and took 8 years to build. He also had 200 workers on site and many others out side helping with getting materials and other jobs.
  • Hippocrates
    460

    Hippocrates

    He was a physician who studied medicinal in Greece. He worked on the island of Cos.
  • Socrates
    470

    Socrates

    Socrates was the most famous of all Ancient Greek Philosophers. He was born in 469 BC and died in 399 BC.
  • The peak of the golden age of Ancient Greece
    500

    The peak of the golden age of Ancient Greece

    The Golden Age of Greece is a period of time in Greece where they had there highest peak in development.
  • Sparta puts down a slave revolt
    Jan 1, 650

    Sparta puts down a slave revolt

    In 650 BC Sparta became a non slave revolt and was a military state and did not use salves to fight in war.
  • First Olymoic games are held
    Jan 1, 776

    First Olymoic games are held

    The first Olympic Games are held in Olympia in 776 BC. They had the Olympics in Olympia every 4 years and the last five days of the Olympics was a celebration of the god Zeus.
  • The Trojan War
    Jan 1, 1194

    The Trojan War

    The Trojan War was a conflict between Ancient Greece and the city of Troy and Ancient Greece defeated the City Of Troy. The Greece hid in a huge wooden horse and attacked troy in the middle of the night and opened the gates of troy.
  • Olympic games are abolished by the roman emporor

    Olympic games are abolished by the roman emporor

    The Olympic Games are stopped in 93 393 AD when the Christian emperor Theodosius 1 suppressed the Olympics as a pagan abomination. Theodosius’s grandson then demolished the Olympic site.
  • Perciles

    Perciles

    Pericles was born in 495 BC Athens, His father Xanthippus and his great-Uncle Cleistenes were members of thw upper class. He died in 429 BC.