Ancient Greek Timeline

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1450 BCE

    Minoans

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1450 BCE

    Heroic Age

  • 1645 BCE

    Eruption Of Thera

    Eruption Of Thera
  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Myceneans

  • 1100 BCE

    Dorians

    Dorians
  • Period: 1100 BCE to 500 BCE

    Dark Ages

  • 776 BCE

    First Olympics

  • 750 BCE

    Homer

    Homer
  • 594 BCE

    First Coins Struck

  • 594 BCE

    Introduction Of Democracy In Anthens

  • 550 BCE

    Darius

    Darius
  • 546 BCE

    Athens First Tyrant

  • 540 BCE

    Leonidas

    Leonidas
  • 518 BCE

    Xerxes

    Xerxes
  • 492 BCE

    First Persian War

  • 490 BCE

    Battle Of Marathon

    Battle Of Marathon
  • 490 BCE

    Battle Of Salamis

    Battle Of Salamis
  • 480 BCE

    Battle Of Thermopylae

    Battle Of Thermopylae
  • 480 BCE

    Second Persian War

  • 461 BCE

    Pericles

    Pericles
  • 431 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

    Peloponnesian War
  • 430 BCE

    Plague In Athens

    Plague In Athens
  • 399 BCE

    Socrates Died

    Socrates Died
  • 399 BCE

    Socrates Executed

  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
  • 382 BCE

    King Phillip Of Macedonia

    King Phillip Of Macedonia
  • 380 BCE

    Plato Founds Academy

  • 357 BCE

    Alexanders Conquest

  • 355 BCE

    Alexander The Great

    Alexander The Great
  • 348 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
  • 335 BCE

    Aristotle Starts Lyceum

  • 331 BCE

    Alexandria founded

  • 146 BCE

    Romans Invade