Ancient Greece timeline

  • Agamemnon
    1750 BCE

    Agamemnon

  • Philip 2
    1598 BCE

    Philip 2

  • Homer
    850 BCE

    Homer

  • First Olympic Games
    776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

  • Draco’s code of law
    620 BCE

    Draco’s code of law

  • Darius 1
    550 BCE

    Darius 1

  • Democracy
    507 BCE

    Democracy

  • First Persian war
    492 BCE

    First Persian war

  • Battle of marathon
    490 BCE

    Battle of marathon

  • Xerxes
    486 BCE

    Xerxes

  • Second Persian war
    482 BCE

    Second Persian war

  • Battle of Thermopylae
    480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopylae

  • Socrates
    469 BCE

    Socrates

  • Parthenon complete
    432 BCE

    Parthenon complete

  • Peloponnesian wars
    431 BCE

    Peloponnesian wars

  • Pericles
    429 BCE

    Pericles

  • Plato
    428 BCE

    Plato

  • Catapult
    400 BCE

    Catapult

  • Aristotle
    385 BCE

    Aristotle

  • Alexander the Great
    356 BCE

    Alexander the Great

  • The academy in Athens
    347 BCE

    The academy in Athens

  • Battle of chaperonea
    338 BCE

    Battle of chaperonea

  • League of Corinth
    336 BCE

    League of Corinth

  • Rise of the tyrants

    Rise of the tyrants