Timeline on Ancient Greece

  • 323

    Alexander the Great dies

    Alexander the Great dies
    Alexander the Great dies
  • 404

    Sparta defeats Athens

    Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends
  • 431

    The Peloponnesian War begins

    The Peloponnesian War begins – Sparta and her allies vs Athens and her allies
  • 432

    The Parthenon

    The Parthenon
    The Parthenon is completed
  • Jul 20, 776

    First Pan Hellenic athletes

    First Pan Hellenic athletes
    First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games )
  • Jul 20, 1100

    The Dorians

    The Dorians
    The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed on the Asia Minor coast.
  • Jul 20, 1400

    Mycenaean’s

    Mycenaean’s
    Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World
  • Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive

    Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive
    ( first known Greek]speaking tribes )
  • New form of writing

    New form of writing
    New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop
  • Homer

    Homer
    Homer writes the ILIAD
  • Democracy develops

    Democracy develops
    Democracy develops
  • First Persian Invasion

    First Persian Invasion
    First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
  • Second Persian Invasion

    Second Persian Invasion
    Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they
  • Philip II

    Philip II
    Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece
  • Alexander conquers

    Alexander conquers
    Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
  • Rome conquers Greece

    Rome conquers Greece
    Rome conquers Greece
  • Period: to

    Ancient Greece BC