Greek Archaic Period

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  • 800 BCE

    Colonization

    Colonization
    Greek colonization of the Medetterranian and Black Sea. 800-500BC.
  • Period: 800 BCE to 480 BCE

    Archaic Period

  • 776 BCE

    Olympic Games

    Olympic Games
    The first Olympic Games takes place. The games would take place every 4 years in honor of the Greek god Zeus held at Mount Olympus. The games played a crucial role in the union of Greece and creation of culture.
  • 757 BCE

    Messenian War

    Messenian War
    First Messenian War begins. This is a war between Sparta and Messenia that will last many years. This marks the beginning of a continuous rivalry.
  • 750 BCE

    Iliad and Odyssey

    Iliad and Odyssey
    Homer begins to write the Iliad and Odyssey. These epic poems become two of the most famous literary works in Greek literature and form the foundation of poetry. Also significant in union of Greece.
  • 710 BCE

    Lelantine War

    Lelantine War
    Lelantine War in Euboea between city states surrounding the Lelantine plain believed to be owned by two separate states. Many other city states joined either side resulting in Greece being at war from 710-650BC.
  • 650 BCE

    Marble Sculpture

    Marble Sculpture
    Greece's earliest large scale marble sculpture constructed. This is the beginning of large scale construction and art due to a growing powerful empire.
  • 650 BCE

    Greek Tyrants

    Greek Tyrants
    The Greek Tyrants come into power. Cypselus is the first Tyrant of Corinth. New treatment of citizens comes into action.
  • 621 BCE

    New Laws

    New Laws
    A lawyer named Draco introduces strict new laws inAthens that are punishable by death. These are called Draconian laws.
  • 600 BCE

    New Currency

    New Currency
    The first Greek coins are introduced. Change the way trade is conducted.
  • 570 BCE

    Pythagoras Birth

    Pythagoras Birth
    Pythagoras is born. He made major advances in science, math, and philosophy which are still crucial today.
  • 552 BCE

    Persian Revolt

    Persian Revolt
    The Persian Revolt was the first time the unified province of ancient Persis, after voluntary submission to the Assyrians and Medes two times earlier, declared its independence, and commenced its revolution as it later separated from the Median Empire. Then began the rise of the Persian Empire. 552-550BC.
  • 540 BCE

    Anaximander Death

    Anaximander Death
    Anaximander dies who was the first creater of the map of the known world.
  • 510 BCE

    Spartans and Athenians Overthrow Hippias

    Spartans and Athenians Overthrow Hippias
    Spartan troops helped the Athenians overthrow their king, the tyrant Hippias, son of Peisistratos.
  • 508 BCE

    Democracy Introduced

    Democracy Introduced
    Democracy is introduced in Athens by Cleisthenes. He establishes a constitution and is often called the "Father of Athenian Democracy". This is one of the great accomplishments of the Greek culture and has founded many political systems which are still relevant today.
  • 499 BCE

    Greco-Persian Wars

    Greco-Persian Wars
    The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire of Persia and city-states of the Hellenic world that started in 499 BC and lasted until 450 BC.
  • 496 BCE

    Sophocles Born

    Sophocles Born
    Sophocles wrote 123 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Trachinian Women, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus