Ancient Greece Timeline

By rmurillo
  • 5000 BCE

    _The island of Crete is settled_

    _The island of Crete is settled_
  • Period: 5000 BCE to

    Ancient Greece

  • 2500 BCE

    _Minoan civilization developed on the island of Crete_

  • 2300 BCE

    _Minoan language Linear A is developed_

  • 1600 BCE

    #Athens and Mycenae are established by the Mycenaeans#

  • 1100 BCE

    *The city-state of Sparta begins to form*

  • 776 BCE

    *The 1st Olympic Games are held in Olympia*

    *The 1st Olympic Games are held in Olympia*
  • 594 BCE

    *Democracy begins in Athens*

    *Democracy begins in Athens*
  • 547 BCE

    *The Persians conquer Lydia and the Ionians in Asia Minor*

  • 500 BCE

    *The Golden Age of Greece begins; advances in many fields of study

  • 490 BCE

    *The battle of Marathon: The Greeks defeat the Persians*

  • 480 BCE

    *The Battle of Thermopylae: the Persians defeat the badly*

  • 431 BCE

    *The Peloponnese between Athens and sparta*

  • 384 BCE

    *Aristotle is born*

  • 331 BCE

    *Alexander conquers Egypt, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Persia

    *Alexander conquers Egypt, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Persia
  • 324 BCE

    *Alexander's army stop at the Indus River*

  • 211 BCE

    *Greek settlements in Syracuse are conquered by the Romans

  • 27 BCE

    *Greece officially becomes part of the Roman empire

  • 428

    *Plato is born*

    *Plato is born*

  • *The Olympic games begin again in Athens*