Ancient Greece

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  • 3000 BCE

    Start of the Cyclades culture

  • 2500 BCE

    Start of the Minoan civilisation

  • 1600 BCE

    Mycenaean civilisation declining

  • 1500 BCE

    Eruption of volcano on Thera

  • 776 BCE

    First recorded Olympic Games

  • 750 BCE

    Homer creditied with writing the Illiad and the Odyssey - two important and influential poems

  • 720 BCE

    First Greek colonies established on the island now known as Sicily

  • 610 BCE

    Female poet Sappho born on the Greek island of Lesbos

  • 508 BCE

    Cleisthenes the 'father of democracy' reforms the constitution to create equal rights for all Greek citizens.

  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon (First Persian War)

  • 480 BCE

    Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis (Second Persian War)

  • 447 BCE

    Construction of the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens starts

  • 404 BCE

    Sparta defeats Athens, ending the Peloponnesian War and becomes the supreme power in ancient Greece.

  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great dies after defeating the Persians and setting up an empire that spread Greek culture

  • 197 BCE

    Rome finally defeats Macedon, forcing it to give up the Greek city states it formerly controlled

  • 146 BCE

    Rome conquers Corinth, the last resisting city state in Greece