Historical and Philosophical Time Line By waadnajjar 776 BCE First Olympic games 508 BCE Revolution- Athens gain control 490 BCE Persian Wars Begins 469 BCE Socrates 450 BCE Age of Pericles 431 BCE The Peloponnesian War 428 BCE Plato 384 BCE Aristotle 323 BCE Hellenistic Period 167 BCE Judas Macabaeus Period: 167 BCE to 160 BCE Selecid Empire 27 BCE Roman Empire begins 395 Christianity became state religion in the Roman Empire 570 Prophet Muhammad