Ancient Greece Timeline
2900 BCE 2900-2000 BCE: The Bronze Age when Early Aegean cultures start to emerge
2500 BCE The great Minoan civilization
1200 BCE The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium)
1050 BCE 1050-750 BCE: The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture
850 BCE 850 - 700 BCE: Development of the first Greek Alphabet
776 BCE The First Olympic Games are staged
750 BCE 750 -700 BCE: Homer writes Iliad and Odyssey
730 BCE 730-710 BCE - the First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia
650 BCE The Rise of the Greek tyrants
621 BCE Draco's code of law is introduced
600 BCE Greek Coin currency introduced
500 BCE 500-323 BCE - The Greek Classical Period
505 BCE Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens
490 BCE Greek / Persian Wars led by Xerxes
468 BCE Sophocles writes his first tragedy
461 BCE 461-446 BCE: The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens
449 BCE 449 -432: Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens
441 BCE Euripides writes his first tragedy
443 BCE 443 - 429 BCE Pericles leads Athens
430 BCE Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens
431 BCE Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens
420 BCE 420 - 410: Construction of Temple of Athena Nike
399 BCE Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants
386 BCE Plato founds the Academy
384 BCE Aristotle is born
359 BCE Philip II becomes the king of the Greeks
356 BCE Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born
333 BCE 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 BCE Alexander the Great dies at Babylon
323 BCE 323 -31 BCE: The Hellenistic Period
224 BCE Earthquake destroys the Colossus of Rhodes
200 BCE 200 - 196 BCE: First Roman victory over Greece
197 BCE King Philip V of Greece loses to Roman forces at Kynoskephalai
86 BCE
The Roman General Sulla captures Athens
33 CE
Crucifixion of Jesus and the origin of Christianity
267 CE
The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth
286 CE
The Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman empire in two forming modern Greece
(the Byzantine Empire)
641 CE
The Slavs overrun Greece