Ancient Greece timeline

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  • 850 BCE

    Homer

    Homer
    Homer was the man that wrote Iliad and Odyssey
  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

    First Olympic Games
    The first recorded Olympic Games were held at Olympia in the Greek city-state of Elis, and are held every 4 years
  • 620 BCE

    Draco’s Code of Law

    Draco’s Code of Law
    The draconian law was created by king Draco for the Athenian
  • 490 BCE

    First Persian War

    First Persian War
    The first Persian invasion of Greece, And ended with the decisive Athenian wining
  • 482 BCE

    Second Persian War

    Second Persian War
    DescriptionThe second Persian invasion of Greece occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece
  • 432 BCE

    Parthenon completed

    Parthenon completed
    Destroyed Partially on 26 September 1687
  • 428 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
    Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years under the Horite priest Sechnuphis
  • 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian Wars

    Peloponnesian Wars
    An ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
  • 399 BCE

    Socrates

    Socrates
    a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy
  • 399 BCE

    Catapult

    Catapult
    a forked stick with an elastic band fastened to the two prongs, used by children for shooting small stones; a slingshot.
  • 387 BCE

    The Academy in Athens

    The Academy in Athens
    DescriptionThe Academy was founded by Plato
  • 338 BCE

    Battle of chaeronea

    Battle of chaeronea
    The battle of chaeronea was between the Macedonians led by Philip II of Macedon and an alliance of some of the Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes
  • 6

    Democracy

    Democracy
    Greek democracy created at Athens was direct, rather than representative: any adult male citizen over the age of 20 could take part, and it was a duty to do so
  • 480

    Battle of Thermopylae

    Battle of Thermopylae
    DescriptionThe 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, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
  • 1000

    Rise of the Tyrants

    Rise of the Tyrants
    a cruel and oppressive ruler or, in ancient Greece, a ruler who seized power unconstitutionally or inherited such power.
  • 1580

    Philip II

    Philip II
    Philip II was King of Spain, King of Portugal, King of Naples and Sicily.