The World of Ancient Greece

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  • 20,000 BCE

    Inhabitation of Francthi Cave

  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 7000 BCE

    Mesolithic Era

  • 9000 BCE

    Francthi Cave Dwellers Gather Wild Oats and Barley

  • 8000 BCE

    Francthi Dwellers Domesticate Crops

  • Period: 7000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Neolithic Era

    Permanent farming, domestication, and pots
  • 6800 BCE

    China/Asia Domesticate Rice+Millet

  • Period: 6000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Lerna is a Small VIllage

  • 5500 BCE

    Sesklo Settlements Emerege

    Hilltop village with signs of urbanization
    Estimated 1500 inhabitants
    Comparable to ANE
  • 5500 BCE

    Dimini Settlements Emerge

    Both in Thessaly
    Estimated 1500 inhabitants
    Central hall with smaller houses around it
  • 5400 BCE

    Farming and Animal Husbandry Reach Europe

  • Period: 5000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Marble Nude Female Freestanding Figurine Created

  • 4900 BCE

    Mesoamerica Domesticates Maize and Squash

  • 4000 BCE

    Farming and Animal Husbandry Reach Britain

  • 3000 BCE

    Uruk has 50,000 Residents

    They live in 500 acres of walled area
  • 3000 BCE

    Inhabitation of Francthi Cave Ends

  • 3000 BCE

    Lerna Develops

    It becomes a large town with big walls
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 2100 BCE

    Early Bronze Age

    Social ranking emerges
  • 2500 BCE

    Bronze Usage becomes Common

  • Period: 2250 BCE to 2100 BCE

    Widespread Destruction

    Lerna and other sites are destroyed
    Indo-European speakers in Greece
    Indo-European gods introduced into Greece
    Pottery decoration changes
    New house types
    Grave and funerary behavior is new
    Horses and chariots
  • Period: 2100 BCE to 1600 BCE

    Middle Bronze Age

  • 2016 BCE

    Alexander Contemplates Future Destination

  • 1900 BCE

    Palaces Emerge in Crete

    Mainland contacts with Crete and Near East
  • 1800 BCE

    Cretans Develop Linear A

  • 1600 BCE

    Mycenae and Other Sites become Power Centers

    Small kingdoms emerge
  • 1600 BCE

    Shaft Graves Emerge

  • 1600 BCE

    Thera Erupts

  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Late Bronze Age

  • 1582 BCE

    Cecrops is King of Athens

  • Period: 1582 BCE to 299 BCE

    Span of the Parian Marble

  • 1500 BCE

    Tholos Tombs Emerge

  • 1490 BCE

    Mycenaeans Take Over Crete

  • 1450 BCE

    Linear B is Developed

  • 1400 BCE

    New Palaces are Built in Greece

  • Period: 1400 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Height of Mycenaean Power

  • 1375 BCE

    Knossos Destroyed

  • Period: 1250 BCE to 1225 BCE

    Trojan War

  • 1200 BCE

    Dwellers of Franchthi Cave Visit Melos for Obsidian

  • Period: 1200 BCE to Dec 13, 800

    Dark Age

  • 1100 BCE

    Dorian Greeks Settle in the Peloponnese

  • Period: 1100 BCE to 900 BCE

    Large Population Movements in Near East

  • 950 BCE

    Lefkandi Usage Period

  • 900 BCE

    The Rise of the Polis

  • 900 BCE

    Spartans Conquest the Laconian Plain

  • Period: 900 BCE to 800 BCE

    Beginning of the “Greek Miracle”

  • Period: 900 BCE to 750 BCE

    Revival Period with Population Growth

  • Period: 900 BCE to 700 BCE

    Greek Geometric Period

  • 850 BCE

    Archilochus of Paros

    Wrote a song-poem which was outlawed in Sparta
  • 800 BCE

    Temple Architecture becomes House-like

  • 800 BCE

    Corinth invents Black Figure Pottery

  • 800 BCE

    Lycurgus Instates Spartan Laws

    or 700
  • 800 BCE

    Mimnermus of Smyrna writes song-poems

  • Period: 800 BCE to 700 BCE

    Late Dark Age

    Period of stasis as oligarchs fight
    Persian Empire Expands (Media, Babylonia, Israel, Assyria, Lydia, Scythia)
  • 776 BCE

    Founding date of the Olympics

  • 775 BCE

    Phase 1 of Colonization

    Begins in the West with Pithekoussai
  • 757 BCE

    Colonization of Cumae

  • 750 BCE

    Homeric Epics: Iliad and the Odyssey Written

  • Period: 750 BCE to 650 BCE

    The Active Period of the Hoplite Army

  • Period: 740 BCE to 720 BCE

    First Messenian War

  • 733 BCE

    Colonization of Syracuse

  • 729 BCE

    Colonization of Katane

  • 720 BCE

    Colonization of Sybaris

  • 720 BCE

    Colonization of Croton

  • 716 BCE

    Colonization of Rhegium

  • 706 BCE

    Colonization of Taras

  • 700 BCE

    Hesiod’s Works & Days, Theogony Written

  • 700 BCE

    Polis Boundaries Established

  • 700 BCE

    Kourous and Kore Statues Created

  • 700 BCE

    Hipponax of Ephesus Writes Poetry

  • Period: 700 BCE to 480 BCE

    Archaic Period

  • 685 BCE

    Miletus Colonizes Chalcedon

  • 685 BCE

    Miletus Colonizes Heraclea

  • 679 BCE

    Miletus Colonizes Cyzicus

  • 669 BCE

    Second Messenian War

  • 660 BCE

    Miletus Colonizes Byzantium

  • 650 BCE

    Chigi Vase Created

  • 650 BCE

    Macmillan Aryballos Created

  • 650 BCE

    Eleusis Amphora Created

  • 632 BCE

    Cylon Conspiracy

  • 630 BCE

    Thera Colonizes Cyrene

  • 620 BCE

    Miletus Colonizes Sinope

  • 620 BCE

    Draco’s Law Code Instated in Athens

  • 600 BCE

    Phocaea Colonizes Massilia

  • 600 BCE

    Miletus Colonizes Panticapaeum

  • 600 BCE

    Lydians Begins to Mint Coins

  • 590 BCE

    Solon’s Reforms Begin

  • 582 BCE

    Pythian Games at Delphi Begin

  • 581 BCE

    Isthmian Games for Poseidon at Isthmia begin

  • 580 BCE

    Attica Kouros Created

  • 580 BCE

    Samos Kouros Created

  • 573 BCE

    Nemean Games at Nemea Begin

  • 570 BCE

    Francois Vase Created

  • 560 BCE

    Pisistratus Self-wound and Coup

  • 560 BCE

    Rebuilt Temple of Athena

  • 560 BCE

    Temple of Zeus Begins Construction

  • 560 BCE

    Croesus Rules Lydia

  • Period: 560 BCE to 510 BCE

    Pisistratus and His Sons Rule Athens

  • Period: 559 BCE to 510 BCE

    Cyrus II Rules Persia

  • 555 BCE

    Pisistratus Driven Out by Megacles

  • 555 BCE

    Pisistratus Returns

    Aided by Megacles and Phye
  • 550 BCE

    Miletus Colonizes Olbia

  • 550 BCE

    Athens Begins to Drive Corinth Out of Pottery Business

  • Period: 550 BCE to 510 BCE

    Peloponnesian League

  • 545 BCE

    Battle of Pallene

  • 540 BCE

    Attic Amphora Created

  • 534 BCE

    Dionysia Begins

  • 530 BCE

    Athenian Red Figure Pottery is Created

  • 527 BCE

    End of rule of Pisistratus

    Following his death,his sons took rule
  • Period: 525 BCE to 456 BCE

    Aeschylus Lives

  • Period: 521 BCE to 486 BCE

    Darius Rules Persia

  • 520 BCE

    “Ancient Temple” of Athena Built

  • 514 BCE

    Hipparchus Assassinated

    Co-ruler of Athens
    Son of Pisistratus
  • 510 BCE

    Attica Kouros Created

  • 510 BCE

    Hippias is Exiled

    Co-ruler of Athens
    Son of Pisistratus
  • Period: 507 BCE to 501 BCE

    Cleisthenes Reforms Athenian Law

  • Period: 500 BCE to 428 BCE

    Anaxagoras Lives

  • 499 BCE

    Ionian Revolt

  • 499 BCE

    Pindar Begins to Write

  • 497 BCE

    Aristagoras Dies

    Tyrant of Miletus
  • 494 BCE

    Battle of Lade

    Persian Empire vs. Greek Rebels
  • 494 BCE

    Battle of Sepia

  • 494 BCE

    Advances in Science, Medicine, and Literacy

  • Period: 493 BCE to 433 BCE

    Empedocles Lives

  • 492 BCE

    Mt. Athos Disaster

  • 490 BCE

    Darius' Invasion of the Marathon Plain in Attica

  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

  • 489 BCE

    Trial of Miltiades

  • 484 BCE

    Laurion Silver Strike

  • Period: 484 BCE to 425 BCE

    Herodotus of Halicarnassus Lives

  • 482 BCE

    Ostracism of Aristides

  • 481 BCE

    Delphic Oracle “Put your faith in your wooden walls”

  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopylae/Artemisium

  • Period: 480 BCE to 323 BCE

    Classical Period

  • 479 BCE

    Battle of Plataea

  • 478 BCE

    Cimon Kicked Persians Out of Thrace

  • Period: 478 BCE to 477 BCE

    Delian League is Born

  • 477 BCE

    Cimon established cleruchy on Scyros

  • Period: 477 BCE to 432 BCE

    Pentakontaetia

  • 471 BCE

    Themistocles Ostracized

  • 470 BCE

    Tholos Built

  • 469 BCE

    Battle of Eurymedon River

    or 467
  • 467 BCE

    Anaxagoras Prosecuted for Impiety

    Fled to the Hellespont
  • 461 BCE

    Cimon Ostracized

  • 461 BCE

    Reforms of Ephialtes

    Resulting assassination
  • Period: 461 BCE to 429 BCE

    Pericles Acted as a Leading Politician and Strategos

  • 460 BCE

    Eurymedon Vase (Hamburg) Created

  • Period: 460 BCE to 429 BCE

    Periclean Building Program

  • Period: 460 BCE to 445 BCE

    First Peloponnesian War

  • Period: 460 BCE to 395 BCE

    Thucydides lives

    Son of Oloros
  • Period: 460 BCE to 377 BCE

    Hippocrates Lives

  • Period: 460 BCE to 370 BCE

    Democritus of Abdera Lives

  • Period: 454 BCE to 455 BCE

    The Egyptian Debacle

  • Period: 454 BCE to 455 BCE

    Delian League Treasury Transferred to Athens

  • 451 BCE

    Pericles Limits Citizenship in Athens

  • 451 BCE

    Herodotus Works on Histories

  • 450 BCE

    Athens Builds its Walls

  • 450 BCE

    Peace of Callias

  • 450 BCE

    Egesta Alliance

  • 450 BCE

    Approximate active period of Leusippus

  • Period: 450 BCE to 388 BCE

    Aristophanes Lives

  • Period: 449 BCE to 440 BCE

    Pericles’ Circuit of the Black Sea

  • 447 BCE

    Construction of the Parthenon Begins

  • 447 BCE

    Thucydides begins Histories

  • 445 BCE

    30 year Athenian and Spartan Peace is Agreed to

  • 445 BCE

    Athens Founds Brea

  • 443 BCE

    Athens Founds Panhellenic Colony at Thurii

  • 440 BCE

    Samos Revolts

  • 440 BCE

    Temple of Hephaestus Built

  • Period: 437 BCE to 432 BCE

    Acropolis Propylaia Built

  • 435 BCE

    Stasis in Epidamnus

  • 435 BCE

    Battle of Leucimme

  • Period: 435 BCE to 431 BCE

    Lead Up to the Peloponnesian War

  • 433 BCE

    Corcyra asks Athens for an Alliance

    Athens sends 10 ships
  • 433 BCE

    Battle of Sybota

  • 432 BCE

    Parthenon is Completed

  • 432 BCE

    Potidaea has a 2 Year Siege

  • 432 BCE

    Megara Decree

  • 432 BCE

    Thebes Attacks Platea

  • 432 BCE

    Peloponnesian League Votes to War with Athens

  • 431 BCE

    Macedon Expands

  • Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE

    The Peloponnesian War

  • 430 BCE

    Plague Breaks Out in Athens

  • Period: 430 BCE to 370 BCE

    Pasion Lives

  • Period: 429 BCE to 420 BCE

    Temple of Athena Nike Built

  • Period: 428 BCE to 427 BCE

    Revolt of Mytilene

  • 425 BCE

    Naval Battle at Pylos

  • Period: 424 BCE to 422 BCE

    Spartan Brasidas Leads Campaigns

  • 421 BCE

    Peace of Nicias

  • Period: 421 BCE to 406 BCE

    Erectheum Built

  • 420 BCE

    Debate about Renewing the War

  • 416 BCE

    Rivalries among Greek Colonies in Sicily

  • Period: 415 BCE to 413 BCE

    The Sicilian Expedition and Disaster at Syracus

  • 413 BCE

    Athens Convenes Proboule

  • 411 BCE

    Lysistrata was Written

  • 411 BCE

    Assembly Gives all Power to the Four Hundred

  • 410 BCE

    Reconciliation- Democracy Restored

  • 407 BCE

    Alcibiades Returns to Athens

  • 406 BCE

    Battle of Notium

  • 406 BCE

    Battle of Arginusae

    Followed by trial
  • 405 BCE

    Battle of Aigospotamoi

  • 405 BCE

    Alcibiades Assassinated

  • 404 BCE

    Agis and Pausanias Moved Down from Decelea

  • 404 BCE

    Darius II Dies

    Artaxexes takes the throne
    Civil war
  • 403 BCE

    Sparta Restores the Democracy

  • 401 BCE

    Crisis of the 4th Century

  • 401 BCE

    Anabasis or “March of the 10,000”

  • 401 BCE

    Battle of Cunaxa

    Cyrus loses
  • 401 BCE

    Agesilaus Invades Asia Minor

  • Period: 400 BCE to 323 BCE

    Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic, Lives

  • 399 BCE

    The Trial of Socrates

  • Period: 395 BCE to 387 BCE

    Corinthian War

    Lysander killed fighting in Boetia
  • 394 BCE

    Sea Battle of Cnidus

  • 394 BCE

    The Return of Conon

  • 387 BCE

    The King’s Peace

  • Period: 387 BCE to 83 BCE

    Plato’s Academy Exists

  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle Lives

  • Period: 382 BCE to 336 BCE

    Philip II Lives

  • 377 BCE

    Second Athenian League Founded

  • 371 BCE

    Battle of Leuctra

  • Period: 369 BCE to 367 BCE

    Philip II is a Hostage in Thebes

  • Period: 365 BCE to 275 BCE

    Pyrrhon of Elis Lives and Establishes Skepticism

  • 362 BCE

    Thebes Invades Sparta

  • 362 BCE

    Battle of Mantinea

    Sparta defeated
    Epaminondas dies
  • 362 BCE

    Stasis Ensues

  • 357 BCE

    Philip II Assumes Throne

    Decides to overcome oppressors by reforming military
    Torion Catapults (now take besieged cities) created
    Takes Amphipolis
  • 352 BCE

    Philip II becomes Thessalian League Archon

    His force is doubled
    Marched on Delphi and Athens panicked
    They sent a force to Thermopylae to no avail
    He observed their tactics
  • 348 BCE

    Philip II Razes Olynthus (an Athenian ally) to the Ground

    All are sold into slavery
  • 347 BCE

    Aristotle Ends His Studies at the Academy

  • 346 BCE

    Peace Treaty of Philocrates

  • Period: 341 BCE to 270 BCE

    Epicurus Lives and Establishes Epicureanism

  • 340 BCE

    Philip II Declares Open War, Siege to Byzantium

  • Period: 339 BCE to 338 BCE

    Battle of Chaeronea with Alexander

  • 337 BCE

    League of Corinth Established

  • 336 BCE

    Philip assassinated by Pausanias

    Alexander assumes control
  • 336 BCE

    Kingdom of Macedon Expands

  • 335 BCE

    Aristotle Founds the Lyceum

  • Period: 335 BCE to 263 BCE

    Zeno Lives and Establishes Stoicism

  • 334 BCE

    Alexander Masses Troops

  • 334 BCE

    Battle of Granicus

  • 333 BCE

    Battle of Issus

  • 332 BCE

    Siege of Tyre

  • 332 BCE

    Battle of Gaugamela

  • 331 BCE

    Alexandria Founded

  • 330 BCE

    Alexander Finds Darius Assassinated by Bessus

    Bessus is promptly killed
  • Period: 330 BCE to 327 BCE

    Alexander Subdues Rebel Tribes in Bactria and Sogdiana

  • 327 BCE

    Alexander Marries Roxane

  • 327 BCE

    Alexander crosses the Hindu Kush

    Khyber Pass
  • 326 BCE

    King Porus and the Battle of Hydaspes

  • 326 BCE

    Alexander's Men Mutiny while Going Through the Punjab

  • 324 BCE

    Unification of Mankind

    A celebration at Susa for conquering India
    Alexander marries Stateira and Parysatis
    Many officers take Persian/Median brides
    Hephaestion dies
  • 323 BCE

    Alexander Dies

    June 10
    Settlement of future ruler by Regency
  • Period: 323 BCE to 322 BCE

    Lamian War

  • Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE

    Hellenistic Period

  • 322 BCE

    Battle of Amorgos

  • 322 BCE

    Dissolution of the Corinthian League

  • 322 BCE

    Death of Aristotle

  • 322 BCE

    Death of Demosthenes

  • 322 BCE

    Battle of Crannon

  • 321 BCE

    Antipater Becomes Regent

  • 321 BCE

    Invasion of Egypt

  • 321 BCE

    Death of Perdiccas

  • 321 BCE

    Ptolemy Steals Alenander’s Body

  • 320 BCE

    Cassander Assumes Some Control

    Olympias assassinates Arrhidaeus and Eurydice
    Cassander kills Olympias
    Cassander confines Roxane and Alexander IV (never heard from again)
  • Period: 318 BCE to 316 BCE

    Revolt Against Polyperchon

  • 317 BCE

    Demitrius Becomes Tyrant of Athens

  • 315 BCE

    Freedom of Greeks Proclaimed by Antigonus

  • Period: 315 BCE to 311 BCE

    4 year War Against Antigonus

  • Period: 315 BCE to 200 BCE

    Naval Arms Race

  • 311 BCE

    Peace between Antigonus and Rivals

  • 307 BCE

    End of Tyranny of Demitrius

  • 307 BCE

    Antigonus’ Son Demitrius Invades Greece

  • Period: 307 BCE to 283 BCE

    Foundation of the Museum and Library

  • 306 BCE

    Battle of Salamus

  • 306 BCE

    Antigonus and Demitrius Named Kings

  • 306 BCE

    Epicurus Founds Garden

  • 305 BCE

    Alexander’s Denerals Declares themselves Kings

  • Period: 305 BCE to 304 BCE

    Siege of Rhodes

  • 301 BCE

    Battle of Ipsus

  • 301 BCE

    Death of Antigonus

    Resulting division of his empire
  • 301 BCE

    Zeno Founds Stoa

  • Period: 300 BCE to 246 BCE

    The Construction of Pharos

  • Period: 300 BCE to 250 BCE

    Coins from island Euboea

    City of Karystos
    Depicting cows and chickens
  • 283 BCE

    Death of Ptolemy I

    Accession of Ptolemy II
  • 281 BCE

    Battle of Corupedium

  • 281 BCE

    Death of Lysimachus

  • 281 BCE

    Death of Seleucus

  • 279 BCE

    Invasion of the Gauls

  • 264 BCE

    Creation of the Parian Marble

  • 246 BCE

    Eratosthenes becomes Librarian at Alexandria

  • Period: 237 BCE to 222 BCE

    Reign of Cleomenes III at Sparta

  • 222 BCE

    Battle of Sellasia

  • 222 BCE

    Exile of Clemenes III

    End of his reforms
  • Period: 200 BCE to 197 BCE

    Second Macedonian War

  • 196 BCE

    Flamininus Proclaims Freedom of the Greeks

    \Isthmian Games
  • Period: 171 BCE to 168 BCE

    Third Macedonian War

  • 167 BCE

    End of the Macedonian Monarchy

  • 150 BCE

    Ai Khanoum Destroyed by the Sakai

  • 146 BCE

    Sack of Corinth

  • 146 BCE

    Rome Annexes Macedon and Greece

  • 31 BCE

    Battle of Actium

  • 30 BCE

    Suicides of Marc Antony and Cleopatra VII

  • 30 BCE

    Rome Annexes Egypt

  • 300

    Hadrian Completes Temple of Zeus started by Pisistratus

  • Period: 340 to 338 BCE

    Athens and Macedon at War

  • 394

    End of Olympic Games

  • Lord Elgin Creates Controversy

    He's the best or worst
    I think he's the worst though
  • Period: to

    Heinrich Schliemann Ciscovers Ruins

    Walled city he identified as Troy

  • Schliemann Discovers Mycenae

  • Sir Arthus Evans Discovers Knossos