Ancient Greece Timeline

First Olympic Games

776 BCE

Held at Olympia in the Greek city-state of Elis. It was held very 4 years. honored the Greek god Zeus.

Draco’s code of law

620 BCE

They were really harsh. The purpose was to resolve unequal accessibility to the acquirement of legal knowledge of oral law by replacing such with a written constitution.

Darius the Great

550 BCE

Darius the great set up traps throughout his empire to help keep the peace.
On the approach of Alexander, he retired toward Bactria but was deposed and killed by the Bactrian satrap Bessus.

Rise Of The Tyrants

546 BCE

Tyrants sometimes lost power because they were overthrown by the people, a king inherits power, but a tyrant seizes it.

Xerxes

519 BCE

Xerxes, son of Darius, attempts to invade Greece with arm of immortals.
300 Spartans fight Xerxes at the battle of Thermopylae.

Democracy

508 BCE

There were many city-states with different forms of government. Was contrasted with governance by elites, by one person, by tyrants.

Pericles

495 BCE

Responsible for both the Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire.

First Persian War

492 BCE

Ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon.

Battle of Marathon

490 BCE

Part of the first invasion of Greece.
The battle was fought on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica.
Marked the first blows of the Greco Persian war .

Second Persian war

482 BCE

Persia invaded Greece at Marathon.
Cyrus the great builds an empire.

Battle of Thermopylae

480 BCE

Took place in the late summer of 480 BC.
The4major cause of the battle can be traces back to the Ionian revolt.
The Persian army numbered probably in hundreds of thousands.

Socrates

468 BCE

The Socratic method is also known as the method of Elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate.

Parthenon completed

447 BCE

The ancient Athenians built the Parthenon in just eight or nine years.
Built during the Athenian Empire rule in honor of the goddess Athena.,

Pelopennesian wars

431 BCE

Athens dominated the sea while Sparta dominated the land.
After 10 years the war was a stalemate and both sides agreeed to peace.

Plato

428 BCE

Known as the best known and most widely read and studied philosophers.

Catapult

400 BCE

Machine that could hurl heavy objects or shoot arrows with great force and for considerable distances.

The academy in Athens

387 BCE

Founded by Plato . Athens studded there for twenty years.

Aristotle

384 BCE

Considered one of the greatest thinkers in politics, psychology and ethics.

Phillip II

382 BCE

Created the League of Corinth during the winter of 338BC/337.

Alexander The Great

356 BCE

Alexander the Great created an empire that defeated the Persian empire Capital was Alexandria.

Battle of chaeronea

338 BCE

Fought near the city of chaeronea in Boeotia.

League of Corinth

338 BCE

Also referred to as the Hellenic League.
Was a confederation of Greek states.

League of Corinth

337 BCE

Also referred to as the Hellenic League. Was a confederation of Greek states. Created by Phillip II.

Homer

12 BCE

Presumed author of the load and odyssey. Which are two epic poems that are central works of Ancient Greek literature.

Agamemnon

1 BCE

Doomed from birth .