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Greek colonization of the Medetterranian and Black Sea. 800-500BC.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Greece's earliest large scale marble sculpture constructed. This is the beginning of large scale construction and art due to a growing powerful empire.
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The Greek Tyrants come into power. Cypselus is the first Tyrant of Corinth. New treatment of citizens comes into action.
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A lawyer named Draco introduces strict new laws inAthens that are punishable by death. These are called Draconian laws.
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The first Greek coins are introduced. Change the way trade is conducted.
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Pythagoras is born. He made major advances in science, math, and philosophy which are still crucial today.
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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.
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Anaximander dies who was the first creater of the map of the known world.
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Spartan troops helped the Athenians overthrow their king, the tyrant Hippias, son of Peisistratos.
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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.
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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.
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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
