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wandering tribes begin to settle in Greece.
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Greece declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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Evidence of expanded Mycenaean trade at Levand.
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the Trojan war ended when the Greeks used a wooden horse to invade and overturn the Trojan city of Troy.
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Mycenaean Greece was invaded by Dorian tribesmen from the north. they hold iron weapons which they use to good effect to defeat and conquer the Mycenaeans.
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the Greek alphabet was developed from the Phoenician alphabet.
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Homer composed his poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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the first Messenian war ended in victory for the Spartans.
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the city-states Athens and Sparta emerge and become major powers in the region.
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the rule of aristocratic leaders was challenged by lesser aristocrats or wealthy tradesmen who wanted to overthrow the monopoly of the aristocrats.
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the first Greek coins appeared.
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Solon replaces the Draconian law in Athens and lays the foundation for Democracy.
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Alcmaeonid family and Spartans free Athens from Tyranny.
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The Philosopher and mathematician, Pythagagoras dies in Metapontum.
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The Greeks defeated the Persians in the Battle of Marathon.
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The Greeks defeated the Persians in the battle of Salamis.
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the Persians defeated the Greeks in the Battle off Thermopylae.
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the second Persian war began when Persia's king Xerxes led and invasion force into Greece.
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Greeks defeat Persian army.
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Acropolis and other major building project begin in Athens construction of Parthenon.
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Athens lost the Peloponnesian wars. the Athenian democratic government was removed and replaced by a ruling body of 30 tyrants.
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democracy was restored to Athens.
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Philip ll became king of Macedon
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the philosopher, Plato, student of Socrates, founder of the Academy and author of the Republic died in Athens.
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the Catapult was invented at Syracruse.
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Philip ll, king of Macedon conquered Greece.
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League of Corinth, a federation of Greek's states, was founded by Philip ll to boost support against Persia.
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Alexander became king of Macedon. he was later known as Alexander the Great.
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Alexander conquered the Persians and declared himself king of Persia.
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Byzantium is founded by Constantine the Great. Greece is part of the Western Roman Empire, also called Byzantium.
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Alexander the great died. His son was not born yet so, his conquered lands were divided between his top generals.
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Euclid, the inventor of geometry, died.
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The Roman defeated the Greeks at the battle of Corinth and Greece became part of the Roman Empire.
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Athens is burned by Roman soldiers in response to a Greek revolt.
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Octavian defeats Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
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all of Greece becomes part of the Roman Empire after Marc Anthony is defeated at the Battle of Actium.
