Evidence of food producing economy, simple hut construction, and seafaring in mainland Greece and the Aegean
5700 BCE
First "Megaron House" at Sesclo, in central Greece
3400 BCE
Evidence of earliest fortifications at Dimini, Greece
3000 BCE
Houses of Vasiliki and Myrtos Messara Tholoi House of Tiles at Lerna
2000 BCE
Destruction of Minoan settlements
1700 BCE
Destruction of Minoan palaces Settlement of Akrotiri, Thera Grave Circle B at Mycenae
1627 BCE
Eruption of Thera volcano (sometime between 1627 and 1600)
1600 BCE
Grave Circle A at Mycenae Legends: Argo Voyage, Heracles, Oedipus
1550 BCE
Tholos Tomb at Mycenae
1450 BCE
Linear B writing (1450-1180)
1400 BCE
Mycenaean Palaces Evidence of expanded Mycenaean trade at Levand
1370 BCE
Palace of Knossos destruction
1300 BCE
Palace of Knossos destruction
1250 BCE
Trojan War (1250 or 1210)
it was a war obviously .
1200 BCE
Destruction of many Mycenaean palaces Doric Invasions? (1200-1100) Sea Peoples (1200-1100)
1200 BCE
Destruction of many Mycenaean palaces Doric Invasions? (1200-1100) Sea Peoples (1200-1100)
1100 BCE
Destruction of Miletus and resettlement
1000 BCE
End of Mycenaean civilization Lefkandi: Toumba building
776 BCE
First Olympic Games
750 BCE
Greek colonies established in Southern Italy & Sicily Invention of Greek alphabet Homeric poems recorded in writing (750-700)
730 BCE
First Messenian War Sparta invades Messenia (730-710) Naxos founded (734) Syracuse founded (733
650 BCE
Earliest Lyric Poets
640 BCE
Second Messenian War Sparta invades Messenia (640-630) Cyrene founded (630
630 BCE
Sappho born in Lesbos
625 BCE
Thales (625-545) born in Miletos
594 BCE
Solon replaces the Draconian law in Athens and lays the foundation for Democracy. He introduced to Athens the first coinage and a system of weights and measures
569 BCE
Pythagoras (ca. 569-475) born in Samos
546 BCE
Pisistratos becomes tyrant of Athens
527 BCE
Pesistratos Dies. His sons become tyrants of Athens
