Archaic period By maddypristel 776 BCE Traditional date for the first hero Olympic 757 BCE The first Messenian war 738 BCE Alternate date for the end of the first Messenian war (Links to an external site. 737 BCE Perciddas I- flees from Argos- to Macedonia -and conquers the land 725 BCE Lelantine war between Chacis and Eretria 719 BCE Polydorus- king of Sparta, is murdered by Polymarchus. 690 BCE Pheidon .becomes tyrant of Argos. 685 BCE The second Messenian war 665 BCE The second Messenian war ends. Period: 642 BCE to 634 BCE Battus .establishes a Greek colony in Cyrene in Libya (.. 632 BCE Cylon Athenian noble, seizes Acropolis and tries to make himself king, fails. 621 BCE Draco Athenian lawgiver, issues code of laws, with many crimes punishable by death. 594 BCE Solon Athenian statesman, becomes Archon 590 BCE SapphoG reek poet, flourishes on island of Lesbos 569 BCE Pythagoras site.is born. 565 Peisistratos , Athenian general, organizes Diakrioi party of poor people. Period: 645 to 560 Spartan wars with Tegea all unsuccessful. 656 Cypselus .subjects Corinth . to tyranny. 734 Polydurus sends colonists to Italy