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Greece Timeline
8000 BCE |
Mesolithic Period (8300-7000) |
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| Earliest evidence of burials found in Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece | 7250 BCE |
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| Evidence of food producing economy, simple hut construction, and seafaring in mainland Greece and the Aegean | 7000 BCE |
Neolithic Period (7000-3000 BCE) |
| First "Megaron House" at Sesclo, in central Greece | 5700 BCE |
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| Evidence of earliest fortifications at Dimini, Greece | 3400 BCE |
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Houses of Vasiliki and Myrtos
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3000 BCE |
Aegean Bronze Age Minoan Prepalatial Early Cycladic Culture Early Helladic Period |
2600 BCE |
Minoan Prepalatial Period |
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| Destruction of Minoan settlements | 2000 BCE |
Minoan Protopalatial Period Early Middle Cycladic (2000-1600 BCE) Middle Helladic Period |
| Destruction of Minoan palaces Settlement of Akrotiri, Thera Grave Circle B at Mycenae |
1700 BCE |
Minoan Neopalatial Period |
| Eruption of Thera volcano (sometime between 1627 and 1600) | 1627 BCE |
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| Grave Circle A at Mycenae Legends: Argo Voyage, Heracles, Oedipus |
1600 BCE |
Late Bronze Period or The Heroic Age (1600-1100) |
| Tholos Tomb at Mycenae | 1550 BCE |
Late Helladic Period (1500-1100) |
| Linear B writing (1450-1180) | 1450 BCE |
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| Mycenaean Palaces Evidence of expanded Mycenaean trade at Levand |
1400 BCE |
Minoan Postpalatial Period |
| Palace of Knossos destruction | 1370 BCE |
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| "Sea Peoples" begin raids in the Eastern Mediterranean | 1300 BCE |
Mycenaean Culture (1300-1000) |
| Trojan War (1250 or 1210) |
1250 BCE |
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| Destruction of many Mycenaean palaces Doric Invasions? (1200-1100) Sea Peoples (1200-1100) |
1200 BCE |
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1180 BCE |
Sub-Mycenaean Period (1180-1050) |
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| Destruction of Miletus and resettlement | 1100 BCE |
Sub-Minoan Period Dark Age of Greece Proto-Geometric Period |
| End of Mycenaean civilization Lefkandi: Toumba building |
1000 BCE |
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900 BCE |
Geometric Period
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| First Olympic Games | 776 BCE |
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| Greek colonies established in Southern
Italy & Sicily Invention of Greek alphabet Homeric poems recorded in writing (750-700) |
750 BCE |
Late Geometric (circa 760-700) |
740 BCE |
Orientalizing Period (circa 740-650) |
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| First Messenian War
Sparta invades Messenia (730-710) Naxos founded (734) Syracuse founded (733) |
730 BCE |
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700 BCE |
Archaic Period (700-480) |
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| Earliest Lyric Poets | 650 BCE |
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| Second Messenian War Sparta invades Messenia (640-630) Cyrene founded (630) |
640 BCE |
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| Sappho born in Lesbos | 630 BCE |
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| Thales (625-545) born in Miletos | 625 BCE |
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| Pythagoras (ca. 569-475) born in Samos | 569 BCE |
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| Solon replaces the Draconian law in Athens and lays the foundation for Democracy. He introduced to Athens the first coinage and a system of weights and measures |
594 BCE |
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| Pisistratos becomes tyrant of Athens | 546 BCE |
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| Pesistratos Dies. His sons become tyrants of Athens | 527 BCE |
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| Red-figure pottery developed in Athens | 525 BCE |
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| Alcmaeonid family and Spartans free Athens from tyranny. Introduction of Democracy in Athens |
510 BCE |
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| Kleisthenes begins reforming Athenian code of laws, and establishes a democratic constitution | 508 BCE |
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| Ionian revolt | 499 BCE |
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| Ionian revolt defeated by Persians | 494 BCE |
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| Persian Wars | 497-479 BCE |
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| Battle of Marathon Athenians defeat Darius and his Persian army |
490 BCE |
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| Silver mines discovered near Athens. Athens begin building naval fleet |
483 BCE |
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| Aristides ostracized | 482 BCE |
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| Xerxes marches on Greece Battle of Thermopylae Persians burn the Acropolis Athens and allies defeat Persian fleet at naval battle of Salamis |
480 BCE |
Classical Period Transitional (480-450) |
| Battle of Plataea Greeks defeat Persian army |
479 BCE |
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| Delian league lead by Athens | 477 BCE |
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| Earthquake in Lakonia Helot revolt against Sparta in Messenia |
465 BCE |
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| Peloponnesian Wars: "First Peloponnesian War" |
461-445 |
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| Perikles leads Athens through its "Golden Era" (ca. 460-429) | 460 BCE |
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| Aeschylus produces "the Oresteia" trilogy of tragedies (Agamemnon, Libation Barers, Eumenides) in Athens |
458 BCE |
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| Delian league treasury moved from Delos to Athens | 454 BCE |
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| Sophist Protagoras visits Athens | 450 BCE |
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| Acropolis and other major building projects begin in Athens Construction of Parthenon (449-432) Sophocles produces the tragedy "Ajax" |
449 BCE |
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| Thirty-year peace treaty signed between Athens and Sparta in winter 446/445 | 446 BCE |
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| Sophocles produces "Antigone" in Athens 430-429 | 441 BCE |
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| Peloponnesian War (431-404) resumes Euripedes produces "Medea" in Athens |
431 BCE |
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| Plague epidemic in Athens | 430 BCE |
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| Death of Perikles | 429 BCE |
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| Peace of Nicias | 421 BCE |
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| Construction of Temple of Athena Nike (420-410) | 420 BCE |
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| Athenians resume hostilities Spartans defeat Athens at Mantinea |
418 BCE |
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| Athens razes Melos | 416 BCE |
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| Athens expedition to Syracuse Alcibiades defects to Sparta |
415 BCE |
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| Syracuse defeats Athens | 413 BCE |
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| Aristophanes produces "Lysistrata" | 411 BCE |
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| Athens surrenders to Sparta Thirty tyrants rule Athens |
404 BCE |
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| Democracy restored in Athens | 403 BCE |
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| Trial and execution of Socrates | 399 BCE |
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| Plato establishes the Athens Academy | 380 BCE |
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| Sparta defeated in Leuctra | 371 BCE |
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| Thebes defeats Sparta at Mantinea | 362 BCE |
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| Philip II, becomes King of Macedonia | 359 BCE |
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| Macedonian army defeats Athens and its allies at Chaeronea League of Corinth founded |
338 BCE |
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| Phillip II Assassinated. Alexander the Great becomes king of Macedonia |
336 BCE |
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| Aristotle founds the Lyceum in Athens | 335 BCE |
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| Alexander the Great defeats Persian army at Granicus river in Anatolia | 334 BCE |
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| Alexander the Great defeats Persians at Issus | 333 BCE |
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| Tyre capitulates to Alexander after siege | 332 BCE |
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| Alexander invades Egypt City of Alexandria founded in Egypt Alexander defeats Persians at Gaugamela |
331 BCE |
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| Alexander's army reaches Bactria (Afghanistan) | 329 BCE |
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| Alexander marries Roxane (princes of Bactria) | 327 BCE |
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| Alexander's army reaches India | 326 BCE |
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| Death of Alexander the Great | 323 BCE |
Hellenistic Period (323-146) |
| Aristotle dies | 322 BCE |
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| Stoic philosopher Zeno founds school in Athens | 310 BCE |
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| Stoic philosopher Epicurus founds school in Athens | 307 BCE |
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| Ptolemy I founds museum in Alexandria | 300 BCE |
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| Archimedes (287-212) born in Syracuse | 287 BCE |
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| Achaean League founded | 284 BCE |
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| Invasion of Greece by Gauls | 279 BCE |
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| Gauls defeated by king Attalus I | 238 BCE |
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| First Macedonian War (214-204) Rome defeats Philip V of Macedon |
214 BCE |
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| Second Macedonian War (200-196) Victory of Flamininus at Cynoscephalae |
200 BCE |
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| Third Macedonian War (172-168/7) Lucius Aemelius Paulus of Rome defeats Perseus of Macedon at Pydna. Macedonia divided into four republics |
172 BCE |
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| Roman Invasion of Greece Mummius Achaicus sacks Corinth and dissolves the Achaean league. Rome rules Greece henceforth |
146 BCE |
Late Hellenistic or Greco-Roman (146-30) |
| Romans led by Sulla sack Athens | 86 BCE |
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| Battle of Aktion Octavian (later Augustus) defeats Mark Antony and Cleopatra |
31 BCE |
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| Death of Cleopatra |
30 BCE |
End of "Ancient Greece" period |