8000 BCEMesolithic Period

(8300-7000)

Earliest evidence of burials found in Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece 7250 BCEEvidence of food producing economy, simple hut construction, and seafaring in mainland Greece and the Aegean 7000 BCENeolithic Period

(7000-3000 BCE)

First "Megaron House" at Sesclo, in central Greece 5700 BCEEvidence of earliest fortifications at Dimini, Greece 3400 BCE

Houses of Vasiliki and Myrtos

Messara Tholoi

House of Tiles at Lerna

3000 BCE

Aegean Bronze Age

or Early Bronze Age

(3000-2000)

Minoan Prepalatial

or: EMIA, EMIB (3000-2600 BCE)

Early Cycladic Culture

(3200-2000)

Early Helladic Period

(3000-2000)

2600 BCE

Minoan Prepalatial Period

or: EMIIA, EMIIB, MMIII

(2600-2000 BCE)

Destruction of Minoan settlements 2000 BCE

Minoan Protopalatial Period

or: MMIA, MMIB, MMI IA, MMI IB, MMI IIA, MMI IIB, LMIA Early

(1900-1700 BCE)

Early Middle Cycladic (2000-1600 BCE)

Middle Helladic Period

or Middle Bronze Age

(2000-1550)

Destruction of Minoan palaces

Settlement of Akrotiri, Thera

Grave Circle B at Mycenae

1700 BCE

Minoan Neopalatial Period

or: LMIA Advanced, LMIA Final, LMIB Early, LMIB Late, LMII

(1700-1400)

Eruption of Thera volcano (sometime between 1627 and 1600) 1627 BCEGrave Circle A at Mycenae

Legends: Argo Voyage, Heracles, Oedipus

1600 BCELate Bronze Period

or The Heroic Age

(1600-1100)Tholos Tomb at Mycenae

1550 BCELate Helladic Period

(1500-1100)

Linear B writing (1450-1180) 1450 BCEMycenaean Palaces

Evidence of expanded Mycenaean trade at Levand

1400 BCE

Minoan Postpalatial Period

or: LMIIIA1, LMIIIA2, LMIIIB, LMIIIC

(1400-1100)

Palace of Knossos destruction 1370 BCE"Sea Peoples" begin raids in the Eastern Mediterranean 1300 BCEMycenaean Culture

(1300-1000)

Trojan War (1250 or 1210) 1250 BCEDestruction of many Mycenaean palaces

Doric Invasions? (1200-1100)

Sea Peoples (1200-1100)

1200 BCE1180 BCESub-Mycenaean Period

(1180-1050)Destruction of Miletus and resettlement

1100 BCE

Sub-Minoan Period

(1150-950)

Dark Age of Greece

(1100-700)

Proto-Geometric Period

(1100-900)

End of Mycenaean civilization

Lefkandi: Toumba building

1000 BCE900 BCE

Geometric Period

(900-700)

First Olympic Games 776 BCEGreek colonies established in Southern Italy & Sicily

Invention of Greek alphabet

Homeric poems recorded in writing (750-700)

750 BCELate Geometric

(circa 760-700)

740 BCEOrientalizing Period

(circa 740-650)

First Messenian War

Sparta invades Messenia

(730-710)

Naxos founded (734)

Syracuse founded (733)

730 BCE700 BCEArchaic Period

(700-480)

Earliest Lyric Poets 650 BCESecond Messenian War

Sparta invades Messenia (640-630)

Cyrene founded (630)

640 BCESappho born in Lesbos 630 BCEThales (625-545) born in Miletos 625 BCEPythagoras (ca. 569-475) born in Samos 569 BCESolon 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 BCEPisistratos becomes tyrant of Athens 546 BCEPesistratos Dies. His sons become tyrants of Athens 527 BCERed-figure pottery developed in Athens 525 BCEAlcmaeonid family and Spartans free Athens from tyranny.

Introduction of Democracy in Athens

510 BCEKleisthenes begins reforming Athenian code of laws, and establishes a democratic constitution 508 BCEIonian revolt 499 BCEIonian revolt defeated by Persians 494 BCEPersian Wars 497-479 BCEBattle of Marathon

Athenians defeat Darius and his Persian army

490 BCESilver mines discovered near Athens.

Athens begin building naval fleet

483 BCEAristides ostracized 482 BCEXerxes 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

(480-323 )

Transitional (480-450)

Battle of Plataea

Greeks defeat Persian army

479 BCEDelian league lead by Athens 477 BCEEarthquake in Lakonia

Helot revolt against Sparta in Messenia

465 BCEPeloponnesian Wars:

"First Peloponnesian War"

461-445Perikles leads Athens through its "Golden Era" (ca. 460-429) 460 BCEAeschylus produces "the Oresteia" trilogy of tragedies (Agamemnon, Libation Barers, Eumenides) in Athens 458 BCEDelian league treasury moved from Delos to Athens 454 BCESophist Protagoras visits Athens 450 BCEAcropolis and other major building projects begin in Athens

Construction of Parthenon (449-432)

Sophocles produces the tragedy "Ajax"

449 BCEThirty-year peace treaty signed between Athens and Sparta in winter 446/445 446 BCESophocles produces "Antigone" in Athens 430-429 441 BCEPeloponnesian War (431-404) resumes

Euripedes produces "Medea" in Athens

431 BCEPlague epidemic in Athens 430 BCEDeath of Perikles 429 BCEPeace of Nicias 421 BCEConstruction of Temple of Athena Nike (420-410) 420 BCEAthenians resume hostilities

Spartans defeat Athens at Mantinea

418 BCEAthens razes Melos 416 BCEAthens expedition to Syracuse

Alcibiades defects to Sparta

415 BCESyracuse defeats Athens 413 BCEAristophanes produces "Lysistrata" 411 BCEAthens surrenders to Sparta

Thirty tyrants rule Athens

404 BCEDemocracy restored in Athens 403 BCETrial and execution of Socrates 399 BCEPlato establishes the Athens Academy 380 BCESparta defeated in Leuctra 371 BCEThebes defeats Sparta at Mantinea 362 BCEPhilip II, becomes King of Macedonia 359 BCEMacedonian army defeats Athens and its allies at Chaeronea

League of Corinth founded

338 BCEPhillip II Assassinated.

Alexander the Great becomes king of Macedonia

336 BCEAristotle founds the Lyceum in Athens 335 BCEAlexander the Great defeats Persian army at Granicus river in Anatolia 334 BCEAlexander the Great defeats Persians at Issus 333 BCETyre capitulates to Alexander after siege 332 BCEAlexander invades Egypt

City of Alexandria founded in Egypt

Alexander defeats Persians at Gaugamela

331 BCEAlexander's army reaches Bactria (Afghanistan) 329 BCEAlexander marries Roxane (princes of Bactria) 327 BCEAlexander's army reaches India 326 BCEDeath of Alexander the Great 323 BCEHellenistic Period

(323-146)

Aristotle dies 322 BCEStoic philosopher Zeno founds school in Athens 310 BCEStoic philosopher Epicurus founds school in Athens 307 BCEPtolemy I founds museum in Alexandria 300 BCEArchimedes (287-212) born in Syracuse 287 BCEAchaean League founded 284 BCEInvasion of Greece by Gauls 279 BCEGauls defeated by king Attalus I 238 BCEFirst Macedonian War (214-204)

Rome defeats Philip V of Macedon

214 BCESecond Macedonian War (200-196)

Victory of Flamininus at Cynoscephalae

200 BCEThird Macedonian War (172-168/7)

Lucius Aemelius Paulus of Rome defeats Perseus of Macedon at Pydna.

Macedonia divided into four republics

172 BCERoman 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 lead by Sulla sack Athens 86 BCEBattle of Aktion

Octavian (later Augustus) defeats Mark Antony and Cleopatra

31 BCEDeath of Cleopatra 30 BCE

End of "Ancient Greece" period

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