Greece

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  • Period: 776 BCE to 776 BCE

    The first Olympic Games take place

    From the 8th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D., the Games were held every four years in Olympia, located in the western Peloponnese peninsula, in honor of the god Zeus.
  • Period: 750 BCE to 750 BCE

    Homer composes the Odyssey

    “The Odyssey” (Gr: “Odysseia”) is the second of the two epic poems attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer (the first being “The Iliad”),
  • Period: 550 BCE to 550 BCE

    Democracy begins in Athens

    Athenian democracy developed around the sixth century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding
  • Period: 490 BCE to 490 BCE

    Battle of marathon

    The Greek army decisively defeated the more numerous Persians, marking a turning point in the Greece-Persian Wars
  • Period: 480 BCE to 480 BCE

    Battle of Salamis

    The Greeks defeat Persian succeeded480 in luring the Persian navy into the narrow Straits of Salamis, where the huge number of Persian ships became disorganized, and were soundly beaten by the Allied fleet. ... With this double defeat, the invasion was ended,
  • Period: 450 BCE to 450 BCE

    Athens take control of an empire

    The cities and regions that followed Athens essentially formed an empire under Athens' leadership by the 450 bce
  • Period: 440 BCE to 440 BCE

    Greek plays are performed in Athens

    The Greek theatre history began with festivals honoring their gods. Dionysus is a god that was honored with a festival called City Dionysia. In Athens, during this festival, men used to perform songs to welcome Dionysus. Athenians spread these festivals to all its numerous allies in order to get encourage a usual identity.
  • Period: 432 BCE to 432 BCE

    Parthenon is finished in Athens

    Construction began in 447 BC when the Athenian Empire was in power. To the Athenians who built it, the Parthenon and other Periclean monuments of the Acropolis were seen basically as a celebration of Hellenic victory over the Persian invaders and as a thanksgiving to the gods for that victory.
  • Period: 336 BCE to 336 BCE

    Alexzander the Great conquers all

    Alexandedr the Great wanted to conquer the entire known world, which in Alexander's day, and ended on the eastern end of India.
  • Period: 146 BCE to 146 BCE

    Greece is conqeured by Rome

    Each Greek city/state was independent, Rome extended its power over Greece by every step. This opened to more victories over the rest of the Greek peninsula.
  • Period: 431 to 431

    War between Athens and Sparta

    Sparta defeats Athens in 404 BCE.The Peloponnesian War is the name given to the long seires of disagreements between Athens and
    Sparta. The main reason for the war was that the Athenian control of the Delian League. The vast naval alliance that allowed it to dominate the Mediterranean Sea.