timeline of ancient greece

This is a Timeline of Ancient Greece. BC

1000-700: ynoikismos of Athens, people of Attica were willing to transfer their allegiance to one city, Athens, because of Theseus
683: ffice of Archon established King was emasculated
632: a href="/encyclopedia/Cylon" title="Cylon">Cylon, Athenian noble, seizes Acropolis and tries to make himself king, fails
621: a href="/encyclopedia/Draco" title="Draco">Draco, Athenian lawgiver, issues code of laws where everything is punishable by death – Draconian
594: a href="/encyclopedia/Solon" title="Solon">Solon, Athenian statesman, becomes Archon, captures Salamis from Megarians, establishes Timocracy, rule by the richest, constitutional reforms, more vote and trade, abolishes slavery, Know Thyself
590: a href="/encyclopedia/Sappho" title="Sappho">Sappho, Greek poetess and priestess, flourishes on island of Lesbos
565: a href="/encyclopedia/Pisistratus" title="Pisistratus">Pisistratus, Athenian general, organizes Diakrioi, party of poor people
561: isistratus takes power first time, driven out by Lycurgus who leads nobles
559: isistratus restored by help of Megacles
556: isistratus expelled, makes fortune from Thracian mines
546: a href="/encyclopedia/Croesus" title="Croesus">Croesus, rich king of Lydia, killed at Sardis by Persians
546: isistratus restored by Thessaly and Lygdamos of Naxos
527: isistratus dies, succeeded by sons Hippias and Hipparchus
525: ersian Darius I, son-in-law of Cyrus the Great takes Egypt
507: a href="/encyclopedia/Cleisthenes" title="Cleisthenes">Cleisthenes, Greek reformer, takes power, increases democracy
490: a href="/encyclopedia/Themistocles" title="Themistocles">Themistocles and Miltiades, Athenians, defeat Darius at Marathon, Phidippides runs with news
484: a href="/encyclopedia/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus, Athenian playwright, wins Athenian Prize
480: a href="/encyclopedia/Leonidas" title="Leonidas">Leonidas, Spartan, makes sacrifice of 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae so main force can escape, Xerxes son of Darius is leading the Persians
480: imultaenous with Thermopylae, the Greeks and Persians fight to a draw in the naval Battle of Artemisium
480: a href="/encyclopedia/Battle-of-Salamis" title="Battle of Salamis">Battle of Salamis - Themistocles, Athenian general, lures Persians into Bay of Salamis, Xerxes loses and goes home, leaves behind Mardonius
479: a href="/encyclopedia/Pausanius-(general)" title="Pausanius (general)">Pausanias, Greek general routs Mardonius at the Battle of Plataea
479: a href="/encyclopedia/Battle-of-Mycale" title="Battle of Mycale">Battle of Mycale frees Greek colonies in Asia. After the Battle of Salamis, Athens set up the Delian League, treasury on island of Delos, a confederacy of cities around the Aegean. It was intended as a military defense association against Persia but was turned into an empire, collecting tribute and deciding policy of its associates. Sparta formed rival Peloponnesian League
476-462: a href="/encyclopedia/Cimon" title="Cimon">Cimon elected general each year, he was victorious over Persia and then enforced military power on Delian League
474: a href="/encyclopedia/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar, Greek poet moves to Thebes from court at Syracuse
471: a href="/encyclopedia/Themistocles" title="Themistocles">Themistocles ostracized
468: a href="/encyclopedia/Sophocles" title="Sophocles">Sophocles, Greek playwright, defeats Aeschylus for Athenian Prize
461: a href="/encyclopedia/Cimon" title="Cimon">Cimon ostracized
457: a href="/encyclopedia/Pericles" title="Pericles">Pericles, Athenian statesman begins Golden Age, he was taught by Anaxagoras, who believed in dualistic Universe and atoms
456: a href="/encyclopedia/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus dies
449: a href="/encyclopedia/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus, Greek Historian, writes History of Greco-Persian War from 490-479
448: a href="/encyclopedia/Ictinus" title="Ictinus">Ictinus and Callicrates, Greek architects rebuild Acropolis from Persain destruction
441: a href="/encyclopedia/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides, Greek playwright, wins Athenian prize
440: a href="/encyclopedia/Heraclitus" title="Heraclitus">Heraclitus, Greek philosopher, believes everything is mutable
435: a href="/encyclopedia/Phidias" title="Phidias">Phidias, Greek sculptor, completes Zeus at Elis 1 of 7 wonders
433: a href="/encyclopedia/Corinth,-Greece" title="Corinth, Greece">Corinth, Sparta, Megara and Aegina ally against Corfu, Athens, Rhegium, and Leontini
432: nd of Golden Age, Peloponnesian Wars begin Athens under Pericles blockades Potidaea (Battle of Potidaea), Corfu declares war on Corinth (Battle of Sybota)
431: a href="/encyclopedia/Sparta" title="Sparta">Sparta led by Archidamus II sets out to destroy Athens thus starting the Peloponnesian War
431: a href="/encyclopedia/Empedocles" title="Empedocles">Empedocles, Greek doctor, believes body has 4 humors
430: ailed peace mission by Athens, bubonic plague year, Sparta takes no prisoners
430: a href="/encyclopedia/Leucippus" title="Leucippus">Leucippus, Greek philosopher, believes every natural event has natural cause. Athenian Plague Appears in Athens.
429: a href="/encyclopedia/Phormio" title="Phormio">Phormio, Atheinian admiral, wins the Battle of Chalcis
429: a href="/encyclopedia/Pericles" title="Pericles">Pericles dies of Athenian Plague, possibly typhus or bubonic plague
429: a href="/encyclopedia/Hippocrates" title="Hippocrates">Hippocrates, Greek doctor, believes diseases have physical cause
428: a href="/encyclopedia/Mitylene" title="Mitylene">Mitylene rebels, chief city of Lesbos
427: a href="/encyclopedia/Archidamus-II" title="Archidamus II">Archidamus II dies, Alcidas, Greek admiral sent to help Lesbos, raids Ionia and flees after seeing Athenian might Athenian Plague returns
427: a href="/encyclopedia/Mitylene" title="Mitylene">Mitylene surrenders to Athens, Plataeans surrender to Athens
427: a href="/encyclopedia/Aristophanes" title="Aristophanes">Aristophanes, Greek playwright, wins Athenian Prize
426: a href="/encyclopedia/Corfu" title="Corfu">Corfu secures island for Athens
426: a href="/encyclopedia/Demosthenes-(general)" title="Demosthenes (general)">Demosthenes, Athenian general, and Cleon, Athenian demagogue, revitalizes Athenian forces, makes bold plans opposed by Nicias, his first military campaign barely succeeds
425: thenian fleet bottles up Spartan navy at Navarino Bay, Nicias resigns
424: a href="/encyclopedia/Syracuse,-Italy" title="Syracuse, Italy">Syracuse sends Athenians home
424: a href="/encyclopedia/Pagondas" title="Pagondas">Pagondas of Thebes crushes Athenian army at the Battle of Delium, Brasidas a Spartan general makes a successful campaign, Cleon exiles Thucydides for 20 years for arriving late
423: a href="/encyclopedia/Truce-of-Laches" title="Truce of Laches">Truce of Laches supposed to stop Brasidas but doesn't, Nicias leads Athenian forces in retaking Mende
422: a href="/encyclopedia/Cleon" title="Cleon">Cleon meets Brasidas outside of Amphipolis, both are killed (Battle of Amphipolis)
421: a href="/encyclopedia/Peace-of-Nicias" title="Peace of Nicias">Peace of Nicias brings temporary end to war, but Alcibiades, a nephew of Pericles, makes anti-Sparta alliance
420: uadruple alliance of Athens, Argos, Mantinea, and Elis confronts Spartan-Boeotian alliance
419: ing Agis, ruler of Sparta, attacks Argos, makes treaty
418: a href="/encyclopedia/Battle-of-Mantinea" title="Battle of Mantinea">Battle of Mantinea, greatest land battle of war, gives Sparta victory over Argos, which broke treaty, Alcibiades thrown out, alliance broken
416: a href="/encyclopedia/Alcibiades" title="Alcibiades">Alcibiades makes plans, is restored to power
415: a href="/encyclopedia/Herma" title="Herma">Hermai are mutilated in Athens, Alcibiades accused, asks for inquiry, told to set sail for battle (Sicilian Expedition), is condemned to death in absentia, he defects to Sparta
414: a href="/encyclopedia/Lemachus" title="Lemachus">Lemachus, Athenian commander killed at Syracuse
413: a href="/encyclopedia/Nicias" title="Nicias">Nicias and Demosthenes killed at Syracuse
412: a href="/encyclopedia/Alcibiades" title="Alcibiades">Alcibiades is thrown out of Sparta, conspires to come back to Athens
411: emocracy ends in Athens by Antiphon, Peisander, and Phrynichus, overthrown by Theramenes, Constitution of the 5000, Athenian navy recalls Alcibiades, confirmed by Athenians
410: fter several successes, Athenian demagogue Cleophon rejects Sparta peace overtures
409: a href="/encyclopedia/Byzantium" title="Byzantium">Byzantium recaptured by Alcibiades for Athens
408: a href="/encyclopedia/Alcibiades" title="Alcibiades">Alcibiades reenters Athens in triumph, Lysander, a Spartan commander, builds fleet at Ephesus
407: a href="/encyclopedia/Lysander" title="Lysander">Lysander begins destruction of Athenian fleet, Alcibiades stripped of power
406: a href="/encyclopedia/Callicratides" title="Callicratides">Callicratides, Spartan naval leader, loses Battle of Arginusae over blockade of Mitylene harbor, Sparta sues for peace, rejected by Cleophon
405: a href="/encyclopedia/Lysander" title="Lysander">Lysander captures Athenian fleet, Spartan king Pausanius lays siege to Athens, Cleophon executed, Corinth and Thebes demand destruction of Athens
404: a href="/encyclopedia/Athens" title="Athens">Athens capitulates Apr 25 Theramenes secures terms, prevents total destruction of Athens, Theramenes and Alcibiades are killed
401: a href="/encyclopedia/Thucydides" title="Thucydides">Thucydides, Greek historian, leaves account of Golden Age and Peloponnesian War at his death (History of the Peloponnesian War)
399: a href="/encyclopedia/Socrates" title="Socrates">Socrates, Greek philosopher, condemned to death for corrupting youth
347: a href="/encyclopedia/Plato" title="Plato">Plato, Greek philosopher, founds Academy
342: a href="/encyclopedia/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle, Greek philosopher, begins teaching Alexander, son of Philip of Macedon
338: a href="/encyclopedia/Philip-of-Macedon" title="Philip of Macedon">Philip of Macedon defeats Athens and Thebes in last struggle for Greek Independence at Chaeronea Aug 2
336: a href="/encyclopedia/Alexander-the-Great" title="Alexander the Great">Alexander succeeds father, who was assassinated at the wedding feast of his daughter
333: lexander defeats Persians at Battle of Issus, Oct, but Darius III escapes
332: lexander conquers Egypt
331: t Battle of Gaugamela Oct 1, Alexander ends Achaemenid Dynasty and takes Persian Empire
330: a href="/encyclopedia/Democritus" title="Democritus">Democritus, Greek philosopher, develops Atomic theory, believes cause and necessity, nothing comes out of nothing

329: lexander conquers Samarkand
327: lexander invades Northern India, but army is tired so doesn't pursue it
323: lexander dies, his generals vie for power in Wars of the Diadochi Antigonus- Macedonia, Antipater- Macedonia, Seleucus- Babylonia and Syria, Ptolemy- Egypt, Eumenes- Macedonia, Lysimachus, later Antipaters son Cassander also vies for power
316: a href="/encyclopedia/Menander" title="Menander">Menander, Greek playwright, wins Athenian prize
300: a href="/encyclopedia/Euclid" title="Euclid">Euclid, Greek mathematician, publishes Elements, treating both geometry and number theory (see also Euclidean algorithm)
295: a href="/encyclopedia/Athens" title="Athens">Athens falls to Demetrius, Lachares killed
265: a href="/encyclopedia/Archimedes" title="Archimedes">Archimedes, Greek mathematician, develops screw, specific gravity, center of gravity; anticipates discoveries of integral calculus

Timeline Of Ancient Greece

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