Greek Timeline

  • 3000 BCE: Athens founded

  • 10th century BCE: Sparta founded

  • 490 BCE: Athens and Sparta are allies at Battle of Marathon

  • 480 BCE: Greek city-states join together in Battle of Thermpylae

  • 480 BCE: Athens and Sparta allies in Persian War

    Battles include:
    Battle of Marathon
    Battle of Thermopylae
    Battle of solomon
  • 480 BCE Athens and Sparta allies in Battle of Solamis

  • 477 BCE: Athens creates delian league to juxtapose Sparta's Peloponnesian League

  • 431 BCE: Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta

    Battles include:
    Archimedean war 430 BCE
    Siege of Plataea. 429 BCE-227 BCE
    Battle of Solygeia. 425 BCE
    Battle of Pylos. 425 BCE
    Battle of Sphacteria. 424 BCE - 420 BCE
    Battle of Amphipolis. 422 BCE
    battle of Mantineia. 418 BCE
    Battle of Melos. 417 BCE - 415 BCE
    Battle of Syracuse. 415 BCE - 413 BCE
    Battle of Cyzicus. 410 BCE
    Battle of Notium. 406 BCE
  • 430 BCE: Small, seven-day spartan assault on Athens, known as the Archidamian War

  • 404 BCE: Athens surrenders to Sparta, ending the Peloponnesion Wars

  • 306 BC: Athens and Sparta work together at Battle of Solamis