Timelines
History of Greek Civilization
BC
History of Roman Civilization
BC
3000-1100
Minoan civilization in Crete
753 The founding of Rome
About 1200
Siege of Troy
396
About 900
800-600
Etruscan capital, Veii, taken
Homer writing poems
343-290
Conquest of Latin tribes
Rise of the city states
218-202
Hannibal fought against Rome
490
Persians repulsed at Marathon
202
Battle of Zama
480
Leonidas & his Spartans at Thermopylae
146
Destructuction of Carthage
480
Sea battle of Salamis
58-49
Julius Caesar in Gaul
461-431
The Golden Age
44
Caesar murdered
431-404
Peloponnesian War
27
Augustus becomes 1st Emperor
420
Socrates teaching
4
405
Athens surrenders to Sparta
360
Plato in Athens
338
Philip of Macedon defeats Greeks
356-323
323
Birth of Jesus Christ
AD
54-68
117-138
Nero: persecution of Christians
Hadrian
Alexander the Great
313
Christians granted religious freedom
Death of Alexander in Babylon
410
Goths sack Rome
476
Fall of the Roman Empire in the West