Events in Ancient Greece

  • 323

    323BC

    323 BC Alexander the Great dies
  • 404

    404BC

    404 BC Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends
  • 431

    431BC

    431 BC The Peloponnesian War begins – Sparta and her allies vs Athens and her allies
  • 432

    432BC

    432 BC The Parthenon is completed
  • Jan 1, 776

    776BC

    776 BC First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games )
  • Jan 1, 1100

    1100

    1100 BC The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed on
    the Asia Minor coast.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    1400BC

    1400 BC Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World
  • 2000BC

    2000 BC Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive ( first known Greek‐speaking tribes )
  • 899-800

    899‐800 BC New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop
  • 800BC

    800 BC Homer writes the ILIAD
  • 509BC

    509 BC Democracy develops
  • 490BC

    490 BC First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
  • 480BC

    480 BC Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they are triumphant at SALAMIS and PLATAEA
  • 338BC

    338 BC Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece
  • 329BC

    329 BC Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
  • 187BC

    187 BC Rome conquers Greece