Parthenon1

Ancient Greece

  • 323

    323 BC

    323 BC
    Alexander the Great dies
  • 404

    404 BC

    404 BC
    Sparta defeats Athens and the Peloponnesian War ends
  • 431

    431 BC

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

    432 BC

    432 BC
    The Parthenon is completed
  • Jan 1, 776

    776 BC

    776 BC
    First Pan Hellenic athletes contests ( Olympic Games )
  • Jan 1, 1100

    1100 BC

    1100 BC
    The Dorians defeat the Mycenaean’s . First Greek settlement formed on the Asia Minor coast.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    1400 BC

    1400 BC
    Mycenaean’s in control of the Aegean World
  • 2000 BC

    2000 BC
    Ionian and Achaean Greeks arrive ( first known Greek‐speaking tribes )
  • 800 BC

    800 BC
    Homer writes the ILIAD
  • 509 BC

    509 BC
    Democracy develops
  • 490 BC

    490 BC
    First Persian Invasion and the Battle of Marathon
  • 480 BC

    480 BC
    Second Persian Invasion – Greeks defeated at THERMOPYLAE but they are triumphant at SALAMIS and PLATAEA
  • 338 BC

    338 BC
    Philip II of Macedon conquers all of Greece
  • 329 BC

    329 BC
    Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
  • 329 BC

    329 BC
    Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
  • 187 BC

    187 BC
    Rome conquers Greece
  • 899 - 800

    899 - 800
    New form of writing – the alphabet introduced & City States develop