2900

BC

2900-2000
BC:
The
Bronze Age when Early
Aegean cultures start to
emerge
2500 BC

The great Minoan civilization

1200 BC

The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium)

1050 BC

1050-750 BC: The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall

of the Mycenean culture

850 BC

850 - 700 BC: Development of the first Greek

Alphabet

776 BC

The First Olympic Games are staged

750 BC

750 -700 BC: Homer writes the Iliad and the

Odyssey

730 BC

730-710 BC - the First Messenian War and the

Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia

650 BC

The Rise of the Greek tyrants

621 BC

Draco's code of law is introduced

600 BC

Greek Coin currency introduced

500 BC

500-323 BC - The Greek Classical Period

505 BC

Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens

490 BC

Greek / Persian Wars led by Xerxes

468 BC

Sophocles writes his first tragedy

461 BC

461-446 BC: The Peloponnesian Wars begins

between Sparta and Athens

449 BC

449 -432: Construction of the Parthenon and the

Acropolis in Athens

441 BC

Euripides writes his first tragedy

443 BC

443 - 429 BC Pericles leads Athens

430 BC

Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens

431 BC

Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta

and Athens

420 BC

420 - 410: Construction of Temple of Athena Nike

399 BC

Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty

Tyrants

386 BC

Plato founds the Academy

384 BC

Aristotle is born

359 BC

Philip II becomes the king of the Greeks

356 BC

Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born

333 BC

Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at Issus

and is given Egypt by the Persian Satrap where he
builds a capital at Alexandria and founds the great
library

323 BC

Alexander the Great dies at Babylon

323 BC

323 -31 BC: The Hellenistic Period

224 BC

Earthquake destroys the Colossus of Rhodes

200 BC

200 - 196 BC: First Roman victory over Greece

197 BC

King Philip V of Greece loses to Roman forces at

Kynoskephalai

86 BC

The Roman General Sulla captures Athens

33 AD

Crucifixion of Jesus and the origin of Christianity

267 AD

The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth

286 AD

The Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman

empire in two forming modern Greece (the
Byzantine Empire)

641 AD

The Slavs overrun Greece