Ancient greece

Ancient Greece

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  • 490 BCE

    Greek Defeats Persions at Marathon

    Greek Defeats Persions at Marathon
    It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes.
  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Salamis

    Battle of Salamis
    The Battle of Salamis was naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states under Themistocles and the Persian Empire under King Xerxes in 480 BC which resulted in a decisive victory for the outnumbered Greeks.
  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopylae

    Battle of Thermopylae
    . The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian invasion of Greece.
  • 450 BCE

    Thirty Years Peace Between Argos and Sparta Begins

    By the 450's it was clear that the international politics of Greek city-states was dominated by Athens and Sparta.
  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    Athens Invades Megara

    The War fought between the two leading city-states in ancient Greece, Athens and Sparta.
  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    End of the Peloponnesian War

    Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
  • 429 BCE

    Death of Pericles

    In that year, however, Pericles witnessed the death of both his legitimate sons from his first wife, Paralus and Xanthippus
  • Period: 492 to 490

    Darius I Invades Greece

    The invasions was a direct, if delayed, response to defeat of the first Persian invasions of Greece (492-490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece