Ancient Greece: Timeline

From Ancient History Encyclopedia, https://www.ancient.eu/timeline/greece/

800 BCE – 500 BCE
Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

c. 800 BCE – 500 BCE

Archaic period of Greece.
c. 800 BCE – c. 700 BCE

Homer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey.
650 BCE

Earliest large scale Greek marble sculpture.
Life of Greek tragedy poet Aeschylus.
c. 508 BCE

Reforms by Cleisthenes establishes democracy in Athens.
c. 484 BCE – 407 BCE

Life of Greek tragedy poet Euripides.
c. 483 BCE

Themistocles persuades the Athenians to significantly expand their fleet, which saves them at Salamis and becomes their source of power.
480 BCE – 323 BCE

The Classical Period in Greece.
Sep 480 BCE

Battle of Salamis where the Greek naval fleet led by Themistocles defeats the invading armada of Xerxes I of Persia.
479 BCE

Xerxes‘ Persian forces are defeated by Greek forces at Plataea effectively ending Persia‘s imperial ambitions in Greece.
c. 469 BCE – 399 BCE

Life of Socrates.
c. 462 BCE – 458 BCE

Pericles introduces democratic institutions in Athens.
460 BCE – 445 BCE

First Peloponnesian War.
c. 460 BCE – c. 380 BCE

Life of Greek comic poet Aristophanes.
c. 460 BCE – c. 320 CE

Period of full and direct citizen democracy in Athens.
457 BCE

Hegemony of Athens over central Greece.
449 BCE – 448 BCE

Peace between Greece and Persia.
447 BCE – 432 BCE

The construction of the Parthenon in Athens by the architects Iktinos and Kallikrates under the direction of Phidias.
446 BCE – 445 BCE

Thirty years peace between Athens and Peloponnesians.
431 BCE – 404 BCE

The 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League) which involved all of Greece.
427 BCE – 347 BCE

Life of Plato.
c. 415 BCE

The Histories of Herodotus is published. The work is divided into nine chapters, each dedicated to one of the Muses.
404 BCE

End of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aigospotamoi, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
400 BCE – 330 BCE

The Late Classical Period in Greece.
399 BCE

Trial and death of the philosopher Socrates, who taught in the court of the Agora.
395 BCE – 386 BCE

The Corinthian Wars between Sparta and an alliance of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Boeotia and Thebes.
384 BCE – 322 BCE

Life of Aristotle.
380 BCE

Plato founds his Academy outside of Athens.
371 BCE – 362 BCE

Thebes is the dominant city-state in Greece.
371 BCE

Thebes, led by Epaminondas, defeats Sparta in the Battle of Leuctra.
343 BCE

King Philip II of Macedon summons Aristotle to tutor his young son Alexander (later ‘The Great’).
336 BCE – 323 BCE

Reign of Alexander the Great.
May 334 BCE

Alexander invades the Persian empire.
331 BCE

Egypt is conquered by Alexander the Great without resistance.
323 BCE – 31 BCE

Hellenistic civilization in Greece, the Mediterranean and Asia.
323 BCE – 31 BCE

The Hellenistic Age. Greek thought and culture infuses with indigenous people.
146 BCE

Rome sacks Corinth and dissolves the Achaean league. Greece is ruled by Rome.
146 BCE

Roman influence over Greece begins to rise.

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