Classical Greece Timeline

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  • 480 BCE

    Preperations

    Xerxes I makes extensive preparations to invade mainland Greece by building depots, canals and a boat bridge across the Hellespont.
  • 479 BCE

    Victory

    Xerxes' Persian forces are defeated by Greek forces at Plataea effectively ending Persia's imperial ambitions in Greece.
  • 478 BCE

    Withdrawal

    Sparta withdraws from alliance against Persia.
  • Period: 462 BCE to 458 BCE

    New democracy

    Pericles introduces democratic institutions in Athens.
  • 460 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

    Beginning of the first Peloponnesian War.
  • 457 BCE

    Conquered Athens

    Domination of Athens over central Greece.
  • 451 BCE

    30 year peace anniversary

    Thirty years peace between Argos and Sparta.
  • 449 BCE

    Peace between Greece and Persia.

  • 449 BCE

    Peace is agreed on by Athens and Persia

  • 448 BCE

    Ionian cities become independent from Persia under the Peace of Callias.

  • 431 BCE

    Beginning of the second Peloponnesian war

    The 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta which involved all of Greece.
  • 412 BCE

    Sparta allies with Persia.

  • 404 BCE

    End of the Peloponnesian war

    End of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aegospotami, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
  • 400 BCE

    Pepper became known in Greece.

  • 399 BCE

    Trial and death of the philosopher Socrates, who taught in the court of the Agora.

  • 395 BCE

    The Start of the Corinthian Wars between Sparta and an alliance of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Boeotia and Thebes.

  • 380 BCE

    Plato founds his Academy outside of Athens.

  • 359 BCE

    Reign of Philip II of Macedon.

  • 356 BCE

    Third Social War in Greece.

  • 334 BCE

    Alexander the Great invades the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

  • 331 BCE

    Egypt is conquered by Alexander the Great without resistance.