Archaic period

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  • 776 BCE

    Traditional date for the first hero Olympic

  • 757 BCE

    The first Messenian war

  • 738 BCE

    Alternate date for the end of the first Messenian war (Links to an external site.

  • 737 BCE

    Perciddas I- flees from Argos- to Macedonia -and conquers the land

  • 725 BCE

    Lelantine war between Chacis and Eretria

  • 719 BCE

    Polydorus- king of Sparta, is murdered by Polymarchus.

  • 690 BCE

    Pheidon .becomes tyrant of Argos.

  • 685 BCE

    The second Messenian war

  • 665 BCE

    The second Messenian war ends.

  • Period: 642 BCE to 634 BCE

    Battus .establishes a Greek colony in Cyrene in Libya (..

  • 632 BCE

    Cylon Athenian noble, seizes Acropolis and tries to make himself king, fails.

  • 621 BCE

    Draco Athenian lawgiver, issues code of laws, with many crimes punishable by death.

  • 594 BCE

    Solon Athenian statesman, becomes Archon

  • 590 BCE

    SapphoG reek poet, flourishes on island of Lesbos

  • 569 BCE

    Pythagoras site.is born.

  • 565

    Peisistratos , Athenian general, organizes Diakrioi party of poor people.

  • Period: 645 to 560

    Spartan wars with Tegea all unsuccessful.

  • 656

    Cypselus .subjects Corinth . to tyranny.

  • 734

    Polydurus sends colonists to Italy