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Ancient Greece; The Archaic Period

By Jade.Cots
  • Period: 800 BCE to 700 BCE

    Colonisation

    The Odyssey and Iliad are written down by Homer, and Greece begins to establish colonies
  • Period: 800 BCE to 700 BCE

    Homers Iliad and Odyssey

    The Iliad and the Odyssey written down
  • 776 BCE

    First Olympics

    First Olympics
    Accepted year for the first Olympics
    It originally began as a festival to celebrate Zeus, the god of thunder.
  • 757 BCE

    First Messenian War

    The first battle between the Spartans and the Messenians, the year of its occurrence was recorded by the Persians and it resulted in victory for Sparta. Those from Messenia who did not emigrate were enslaved as 'Helots'.
  • 735 BCE

    Perdiccas I of Macedon

    Perdiccas I of Macedon
    Perdiccas of Macedon flees from the Argos to Macedonia, and conquers the land
  • 734 BCE

    Polydorus sends colonists to Italy

    Polydorus was the 10th Agiad dynasty king of Sparta, and sent colonists to Italy as well as being apart of the first Messenian War.
  • 725 BCE

    Lelantine War

    A conflict between the city-states of Chalcis and Eretria, and occurred due to each trying to take over the fertile lands on the island of Euboea.
  • 719 BCE

    Polydorus murdered by Polymarchus

    Polydorus murdered by Polymarchus
  • 690 BCE

    Pheidon becomes Tyrant of Argos

    During his reign he stabilised and made Argos a stronger power, and did attempt to debilitate Corinth, another power, by asking them for strong soldiers under the guise of needing them for warfare (the true intention was to have them murdered), however the plot was revealed before it could take place and hence failed.
  • Period: 685 BCE to 665 BCE

    Second Messenian War

  • 656 BCE

    Cypselus

    Cypselus
    Cypselus subjects Cornith to Tyranny
  • Period: 645 BCE to 560 BCE

    Spartan wars with Tegea

    Spartan wars with Tegea, all fail
  • 642 BCE

    Greek Colony in Cyrene

    Greek Colony in Cyrene
    Battus establishes a Greek colony in Cyrene in Libya. he became its first king and the first Greek king in Africa.
    A butterfly was named after him, called the Battus philenor.
  • 632 BCE

    Cylon; Failed attempt to become king

    Cylon; Failed attempt to become king
    Cylon, and Athenian Noble, attempts to become the king of the Acropolis (a citadel) after seizing it, however the venture fails.
  • 621 BCE

    Draco

    Draco
    Draco, an Athenian lawmaker, makes most crimes punishable by death
  • 590 BCE

    Sappho

    Sappho
    Sappho, a Greek poet, flourishes on the island of Lesbos
  • 569 BCE

    Pythagoras

    Pythagoras
    Pythagoras is born
  • 565 BCE

    Peisistratos and the Diakrioi

    Peisistratos and the Diakrioi
    The Athenian general, Peisistratos, organises the Diakrioi, a party of poor people
  • 525 BCE

    Cambyses II

    Cambyses II
    Cambyses II, son of Cyrus the Great, takes Egypt.
  • 507 BCE

    Cleisthenes

    Cleisthenes
    Cleisthenes, a Greek reformer, takes over and increases the presence of democracy. He is considered 'The Father of Athenian Democracy'