Ancient Greek Timeline

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1450 BCE

    Minoans

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1450 BCE

    Heroic Age

  • Eruption Of Thera
    1645 BCE

    Eruption Of Thera

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Myceneans

  • Dorians
    1100 BCE

    Dorians

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 500 BCE

    Dark Ages

  • 776 BCE

    First Olympics

  • Homer
    750 BCE

    Homer

  • 594 BCE

    First Coins Struck

  • 594 BCE

    Introduction Of Democracy In Anthens

  • Darius
    550 BCE

    Darius

  • 546 BCE

    Athens First Tyrant

  • Leonidas
    540 BCE

    Leonidas

  • Xerxes
    518 BCE

    Xerxes

  • 492 BCE

    First Persian War

  • Battle Of Marathon
    490 BCE

    Battle Of Marathon

  • Battle Of Salamis
    490 BCE

    Battle Of Salamis

  • Battle Of Thermopylae
    480 BCE

    Battle Of Thermopylae

  • 480 BCE

    Second Persian War

  • Pericles
    461 BCE

    Pericles

  • Peloponnesian War
    431 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

  • Plague In Athens
    430 BCE

    Plague In Athens

  • Socrates Died
    399 BCE

    Socrates Died

  • 399 BCE

    Socrates Executed

  • Aristotle
    384 BCE

    Aristotle

  • King Phillip Of Macedonia
    382 BCE

    King Phillip Of Macedonia

  • 380 BCE

    Plato Founds Academy

  • 357 BCE

    Alexanders Conquest

  • Alexander The Great
    355 BCE

    Alexander The Great

  • Plato
    348 BCE

    Plato

  • 335 BCE

    Aristotle Starts Lyceum

  • 331 BCE

    Alexandria founded

  • 146 BCE

    Romans Invade