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1524 BCE
Agamemnon
He was the King of Mycenae -
776 BCE
The First Olympic Games
The first Olympic Games were help in Olympia in 776 B.C. The Olympic Games were a contest of multiple activities mainly used in training for armies. It was an honorable competition overlooked by the Greek god Zeus. -
620 BCE
Draco’s Code of Law
The Draconian Law created by Draco as written law for the Athenians -
550 BCE
Darius l
Darius l was the third king of the Achaemenid Empire -
519 BCE
Xerxes
He was the fourth king of the Achaemenid Empire -
508 BCE
Democracy
Athenian democracy developed around the sixth century BC in the Greek city-state of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. Athenian democracy is often described as the first known democracy in the world. -
490 BCE
The First Persian War
The first Persian war started with the invasion of Greece. And ended with the Athens winning the war -
490 BCE
The Battle I’d Marathon
The Battle of Marathon took place in 490 BC during the first Persian invasion of Greece. It was fought between the citizens of Athens, aided by Plataea, and a Persian force commanded by Datis and Artaphernes. The battle was the culmination of the first attempt by Persia, under King Darius I, to subjugate Greece. -
480 BCE
The Second Persian War
The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. -
480 BCE
The Battle of Thermopylae
The Battle of Thermopylae was 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, during the second Persian invasion of Greece. -
447 BCE
Parthenon Completed
Parthenon is a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena built by the Athenian Empire -
431 BCE
Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian war was a war fought by the Peloponesian League led by Sparta and the Delian League led by the Athens. -
429 BCE
Pericles
Pericles 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. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically-influential Alcmaeonid family. -
428 BCE
Plato
Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. -
419 BCE
Catapult
A giant weapon used to fling projectiles into the air that cause huge amounts of damage. -
399 BCE
Socrates
Socrates was a Greek Philosopher from Athens who was one of the founders of Western Philosophy. -
387 BCE
The Academy In Athens
The Athens academy was a school created in Athens -
385 BCE
Aristotle
He was a Greek Philosopher who educated a bunch of other important figures -
359 BCE
Philip ll
Philip ll was the king of the kingdom Macedonio from 359 B.C. to 336 B.C. -
356 BCE
Alexander the Great
Alexander was one of their greatest Greek rulers who was given the throne past down to him from his father Philip ll -
338 BCE
The Battle of Chaeronea
Chaeronea was the final battle of Philip ll and his son Alexander’s campaign uniting Greece under their control. The battle represented the end of independent Greek city-states and led to the formation of the Macedonian Empire. -
338 BCE
League of Corinth
The League of Corinth was an alliance formed by Greeks sates after the battle of Chaeronea -
336 BCE
Rise of the Tyrants
Alexander the Great over threw the king of Macedonia and became the new ruler. He led armies into India and held the throne for 13 years. -
12 BCE
Homer
The author of the two famous poems Lliad and Odyssey centered around Greek literacy.
