Persian Empire Timeline

By blueberryomelette
  • Period: 600 BCE to 530 BCE

    Lifespan of Cyrus II the Great

  • Period: 559 BCE to 522 BCE

    Lifespan of Cambyses II

  • Period: 550 BCE to 486 BCE

    Lifespan of Darius the Great

  • 547 BCE

    Persia conquers Lydia

  • 530 BCE

    Persia conquers Indus Valley

  • 525 BCE

    Battle of Pelusium

    Cambyses II defeated the Egyptians and crowned himself Pharaoh.
  • Period: 519 BCE to 465 BCE

    Lifespan of Xerxes the Great

  • 492 BCE

    Darius invades Greece

  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

    One of the biggest battles. The Persians invaded the Greeks and although having more soldiers, were defeated.
  • 480 BCE

    The Battle at Thermopylae

    Won by the Greek army
  • 479 BCE

    The Battles of Mycale and Plataea

    The Persian invasion ended, they were driven out of Greece but fighting continued.
  • 412 BCE

    Sparta allies with Persia

  • Period: 381 BCE to 331 BCE

    Lifespan of Darius III

  • 331 BCE

    Battle of Guagamela

    The final stand between Persia and Greece. Persia was defeated by Alexander the Great's army.
  • 330 BCE

    Battle of Guagamela.

    Alexander the Great is victorious over Darius III