Ancient Greek Timeline By jcaravella Period: 2000 BCE to 1450 BCE Minoans Period: 2000 BCE to 1450 BCE Heroic Age 1645 BCE Eruption Of Thera Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE Myceneans 1100 BCE Dorians Period: 1100 BCE to 500 BCE Dark Ages 776 BCE First Olympics 750 BCE Homer 594 BCE First Coins Struck 594 BCE Introduction Of Democracy In Anthens 550 BCE Darius 546 BCE Athens First Tyrant 540 BCE Leonidas 518 BCE Xerxes 492 BCE First Persian War 490 BCE Battle Of Marathon 490 BCE Battle Of Salamis 480 BCE Battle Of Thermopylae 480 BCE Second Persian War 461 BCE Pericles 431 BCE Peloponnesian War 430 BCE Plague In Athens 399 BCE Socrates Died 399 BCE Socrates Executed 384 BCE Aristotle 382 BCE King Phillip Of Macedonia 380 BCE Plato Founds Academy 357 BCE Alexanders Conquest 355 BCE Alexander The Great 348 BCE Plato 335 BCE Aristotle Starts Lyceum 331 BCE Alexandria founded 146 BCE Romans Invade