Ancient Greece timeline

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  • 1750 BCE

    Agamemnon

    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.
  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

    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
  • 750 BCE

    Homer

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

    Democracy

    Democracy
    The word comes from demos “common people” and kratos
    “Strength”
  • 620 BCE

    Draco’s Code of Law

    Draco’s Code of Law
    The Draconian law made by king Draco for the Athenian people.
  • 550 BCE

    Darius I

    Darius I
    He was the third Persian King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire.
  • 547 BCE

    Rise of the tyrants

    Rise of the tyrants
    They are people like thrasybulus, Pisistratus, and 16 more
  • 519 BCE

    Xerxes

    Xerxes
    He was the fourth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire.
  • 492 BCE

    First Persian War

    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.
  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

    Battle of Marathon
    During the first Persian invasion of Greece.
  • 480 BCE

    Second Persian War

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

    Battle of Thermopylae

    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,
  • 432 BCE

    Parthenon Completed

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

    Pericles

    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.
  • 427 BCE

    Plato

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

    Peloponnesian wars

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

    Socrates

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

    Catapult

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

    The Academy in Athens

    The Academy in Athens
    Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school
  • 385 BCE

    Aristotle

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

    Philip II

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

    Alexander the Great

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

    Battle of Chaeronea

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

    League of Corinth

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