GREEK TIMELINE

By nickdavenhall
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1448 BCE

    Minoans

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Heroic Age

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1100 BCE

    Mycenaeans

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 750 BCE

    Dorians

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 800 BCE

    Dark ages

  • 1000 BCE

    Eruption of Thera

  • 776 BCE

    First Olympics

  • Period: 750 BCE to 750 BCE

    Homer

  • 594 BCE

    Introduction of Democracy in Athens

  • 594 BCE

    First Coins Struck

  • Period: 550 BCE to 486 BCE

    Darius

  • 546 BCE

    Athen's First Tyrant

  • Period: 540 BCE to 480 BCE

    Leonidas

  • Period: 519 BCE to 466 BCE

    Xerxes

  • Period: 492 BCE to 480 BCE

    1st Persion War

  • Period: 490 BCE to 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

  • Period: 480 BCE to 479 BCE

    2nd Persian War

  • Period: 480 BCE to 480 BCE

    Battle of Salamis

  • Period: 469 BCE to 399 BCE

    Socrates

  • Period: 461 BCE to 429 BCE

    Pericles

  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian War

  • 430 BCE

    Plague in Athens

  • 399 BCE

    Socrates Executed

  • Period: 384 BCE to 384 BCE

    Plato

  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

  • Period: 382 BCE to 336 BCE

    King Philip of Macedonia

  • 380 BCE

    Plato founds Academy

  • Period: 356 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great

  • 335 BCE

    Aristotle starts Lyceum

  • Period: 334 BCE to 323 BCE

    Alexander's Conquest

  • 331 BCE

    Alexandria Founded

  • 146 BCE

    Romans Invade