Ancient Greece timeline

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  • Agamemnon
    1750 BCE

    Agamemnon

    Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae, the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis.
  • First Olympic Games
    776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

    They where held in the Greek city-state of Elis.it was at first a religious festival for the Greek god Zeus
  • Homer
    750 BCE

    Homer

    DescriptionHomer is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
  • Democracy
    708 BCE

    Democracy

    The word comes from demos “common people” and kratos
    “Strength”
  • Draco’s Code of Law
    620 BCE

    Draco’s Code of Law

    The Draconian law made by king Draco for the Athenian people.
  • Darius I
    550 BCE

    Darius I

    He was the third Persian King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire.
  • Rise of the tyrants
    547 BCE

    Rise of the tyrants

    They are people like thrasybulus, Pisistratus, and 16 more
  • Xerxes
    519 BCE

    Xerxes

    He was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire.
  • First Persian War
    492 BCE

    First Persian War

    The invasion, consisting of two distinct campaigns, was ordered by the Persian king Darius the Great primarily in order to punish the city-states of Athens and Eretria.
  • Battle of Marathon
    490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

    During the first Persian invasion of Greece.
  • Second Persian War
    480 BCE

    Second Persian War

    Xerxes personally led the second Persian invasion of Greece with one of the largest ancient armies ever assembled.
  • Battle of Thermopylae
    480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopylae

    fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas I of Sparta, and the Achaemenid Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days,
  • Parthenon Completed
    432 BCE

    Parthenon Completed

    replace an existing temple which was destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC and cost 469 silver talents to build.
  • Pericles
    429 BCE

    Pericles

    He was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age, specifically the time between the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars.
  • Plato
    427 BCE

    Plato

    Plato was a Athenian philosopher and founder of the Platonist school of thought
  • Peloponnesian wars
    404 BCE

    Peloponnesian wars

    Ancient Greek war, by Athens against Sparta.
  • Socrates
    399 BCE

    Socrates

    He was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is one of the founders of western philosophy,
  • Catapult
    397 BCE

    Catapult

    It is a mechanical invasion was a weapon that shot stuff like big rocks arrows and other killing things.
  • The Academy in Athens
    387 BCE

    The Academy in Athens

    Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school
  • Aristotle
    385 BCE

    Aristotle

    He was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
  • Philip II
    359 BCE

    Philip II

    He was the king of Macedonio from 359 BC until his assassination in 336 BC
  • Alexander the Great
    356 BCE

    Alexander the Great

    a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.
  • Battle of Chaeronea
    338 BCE

    Battle of Chaeronea

    A battle between the Macedonians and an alliance of some of the Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes.
  • League of Corinth
    337 BCE

    League of Corinth

    A confederation of Greek states created by Philip II during the winter of 338Bc/337Bc