Greece Timeline

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  • Oct 3, 730

    First Messenian War

    First Messenian War
    Sparta invades Messenia
  • Oct 3, 776

    First Olympic Games

    First Olympic Games
  • Oct 3, 1370

    Palace of Knossos destruction

    Palace of Knossos destruction
  • Oct 3, 1400

    Mycenaean Palaces

    Mycenaean Palaces
    Evidence of expanded Mycenaean trade at Levand
  • Oct 3, 1450

    Linear B writing

    Linear B writing
  • Oct 3, 1550

    Tholos Tomb at Mycenae

    Tholos Tomb at Mycenae

  • Grave Circle A at Mycenae

    Grave Circle A at Mycenae

  • Eruption of Thera volcano

    Eruption of Thera volcano
    Legends: Argo Voyage, Heracles, Oedipus

  • Destruction of Minoan palaces

    Destruction of Minoan palaces
    Settlement of Akrotiri, Thera
    Grave Circle B at Mycenae

  • Death of Cleopatra

    Death of Cleopatra

  • Romans led by Sulla sack Athens

    Romans led by Sulla sack Athens

  • Destruction of Minoan settlements

    Destruction of Minoan settlements

  • Ionian revolt

    Ionian revolt

  • Persian Wars (497-479)

    Persian Wars

  • Houses of Vasiliki and Myrtos

    Houses of Vasiliki and Myrtos
    Messara Tholoi
    House of Tiles at Lerna

  • Earliest Fortification at Dimini

    Evidence of earliest fortifications at Dimini, Greece

  • Megaron House

    First "Megaron House" at Sesclo, in central Greece

  • Evidence of advancement

    Evidence of food producing economy, simple hut construction, and seafaring in mainland Greece and the Aegean

  • Greece Burials

    Earliest evidence of burials found in Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece