The Archaic Period

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  • Period: 800 BCE to 480

    archaic period

  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

    First Olympic Games
    Was originally a festival or celebration for the God, Zeus. It was a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states
  • 757 BCE

    First Messenian War

    First Messenian War
    The First Messenian War was a war between Messenia and Sparta. It began in 743 BC and ended in 724 BC, according to the dates given by Pausanias.
    Sparta wanted there rich land.
  • 754 BCE

    Polydorus

    Polydorus
    Was a King of Sparta of the 10th Agiad dynasty. and changed some of the constitution of Sparta.
  • 735 BCE

    Perdiccas I of Macedon

    Perdiccas I of Macedon
    Was a king of Macedonia and he fled from Argos to Macedonia to and conquers the land
  • 734 BCE

    Polydorus sends colonists to Italy.

  • 725 BCE

    Lelantine War between Chalcis and Eretria

    A military conflict between the two city state.
  • 719 BCE

    Polydorus death

    Polydorus is murdered by polymarchus
  • Period: 685 BCE to 665 BCE

    The second Messenian War

  • 656 BCE

    Cypselus subjects Corinth to Tyranny

  • Period: 645 BCE to 560 BCE

    Spartan wars with Tegea

    Are all unsuccessful.
  • 642 BCE

    Battus

    or 634. He establishes a Greek colony in Cyrene in Libya
  • 632 BCE

    Cylon

    was an athenian noble, seizes Acropolis and tries to make himself however he fails.
  • 621 BCE

    Draco

    Was an Athenian lawgiver, issues code of laws, with many crimes punishable by death.
    The most influential was the Law of Draco.
  • 594 BCE

    Solon

    Athenian statesman, becomes Archon (the chief magistrate)
  • 569 BCE

    Pythagoras is born

  • 565 BCE

    Peisistratos

    Athenian general, organises Diakrioi party of poor people.
  • 525 BCE

    Persian Cambyses II

    was the son of cyrus the great takes Egypt
  • 515 BCE

    Hippias

    becomes sole ruler after the death of hipparchus
  • 507 BCE

    cleisthenes

    Greek reformer, takes power, increases 'democracy'
  • 490 BCE

    Themistocles and miltiades

    Athenians, defeat Darius at marathon, phidippides runs with news
  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

    Battle against the Persians.
  • 590

    Sappho

    Greek poet, flourishes on island of lesbos