Timeline of major events in ancient Greece?

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The three most significant events in Greece in the 5th century BCE are:

A/ The first Persian - Greek war at 490 BCE - Persian leader Darius I who was defeated by the Greeks at the battle of Marathon by the army of the Athenians and Plataeans under the leadership of Miltiades.

B/ The second Persian - Greek war at 480 BCE - Persian leader Xerxes who had three battles with the Greeks at Artemisium an inconclusive battle at sea, the battle of Thermopylae where the Greeks were defeated and the battle of Salamis where the Persian fleet was destroyed.

These two events stopped the expansion of the Persian Empire to the west and most probably made possible the future developments in the area that lead to the modern civilization.

C/ Then Pericles becomes the ruler of Athens and reconstructs the Acropolis of Athens and Parthenon is build [447 - 438 BCE].

Philosophy, science, technology, arts and education reach new hights.

Then a long 30 years war took place [431 - 404 BCE] between Sparta and Athens and their allies in the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas [Sicily and South Italy].

This war is known as the Peloponnesian war that left both ruling cities [Athens and Sparta] weak and unable to defeat the new coming powers of Greece the Makedonians.

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Battle of Thermopylae- The Battle of Thermopylae took place in the second Persian invasion of Greece in September 480 B.C. It was fought between an Alliance of Greek City-States, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes. Xerxes set out to conquer all of Greece. In the end, the allied armies defeated the Persians at the Battle of Plataea, which ended the Persian invasion.

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8000 BCE  Mesolithic Period (8300-7000) Earliest evidence of burials found in Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, Greece 7250 BCE  Evidence of food producing economy, simple hut construction, and seafaring in mainland Greece and the Aegean 7000 BCE  Neolithic Period (7000-3000 BCE) First "Megaron House" at Sesclo, in central Greece 5700 BCE  Evidence 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 BCE  Grave Circle A at Mycenae Legends:  Argo Voyage, Heracles, Oedipus 1600 BCE  Late Bronze Period or The Heroic Age  (1600-1100)Tholos Tomb at Mycenae 1550 BCE  Late Helladic Period (1500-1100) Linear B writing (1450-1180) 1450 BCE  Mycenaean 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 BCE  Mycenaean Culture (1300-1000) Trojan War (1250 or 1210) 1250 BCE  Destruction of many Mycenaean palaces Doric Invasions? (1200-1100) Sea Peoples (1200-1100) 1200 BCE  1180 BCE  Sub-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 BCE  900 BCE  Geometric Period  (900-700) First Olympic Games 776 BCE  Greek colonies established in Southern Italy & Sicily Invention of Greek alphabet Homeric poems recorded in writing (750-700) 750 BCE  Late Geometric (circa 760-700) 740 BCE  Orientalizing Period (circa 740-650) First Messenian War Sparta invades Messenia (730-710) Naxos founded (734) Syracuse founded (733) 730 BCE  700 BCE  Archaic Period (700-480) Earliest Lyric Poets 650 BCE  Second Messenian War Sparta invades Messenia (640-630) Cyrene founded (630) 640 BCE  Sappho born in Lesbos 630 BCE  Thales (625-545) born in Miletos 625 BCE  Pythagoras (ca. 569-475) born in Samos 569 BCE  Solon 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 BCE  Pisistratos becomes tyrant of Athens 546 BCE  Pesistratos Dies. His sons become tyrants of Athens 527 BCE  Red-figure pottery developed in Athens 525 BCE  Alcmaeonid family and Spartans free Athens from tyranny. Introduction of Democracy in Athens 510 BCE  Kleisthenes begins reforming Athenian code of laws, and establishes a democratic constitution 508 BCE  Ionian revolt 499 BCE  Ionian revolt defeated by Persians 494 BCE  Persian Wars 497-479 BCE  Battle of Marathon Athenians defeat Darius and his Persian army 490 BCE  Silver mines discovered near Athens. Athens begin building naval fleet 483 BCE  Aristides ostracized 482 BCE  Xerxes 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 BCE  Delian league lead by Athens 477 BCE  Earthquake in Lakonia Helot revolt against Sparta in Messenia 465 BCE  Peloponnesian Wars: "First Peloponnesian War" 461-445  Perikles leads Athens through its "Golden Era" (ca. 460-429) 460 BCE  Aeschylus produces "the Oresteia" trilogy of tragedies (Agamemnon, Libation Barers, Eumenides) in Athens 458 BCE  Delian league treasury moved from Delos to Athens 454 BCE  Sophist Protagoras visits Athens 450 BCE  Acropolis and other major building projects begin in Athens Construction of Parthenon (449-432) Sophocles produces the tragedy "Ajax" 449 BCE  Thirty-year peace treaty signed between Athens and Sparta in winter 446/445 446 BCE  Sophocles produces "Antigone" in Athens 430-429 441 BCE  Peloponnesian War (431-404) resumes Euripedes produces "Medea" in Athens 431 BCE  Plague epidemic in Athens 430 BCE  Death of Perikles 429 BCE  Peace of Nicias 421 BCE  Construction of Temple of Athena Nike (420-410) 420 BCE  Athenians resume hostilities Spartans defeat Athens at Mantinea 418 BCE  Athens razes Melos 416 BCE  Athens expedition to Syracuse Alcibiades defects to Sparta 415 BCE  Syracuse defeats Athens 413 BCE  Aristophanes produces "Lysistrata" 411 BCE  Athens surrenders to Sparta Thirty tyrants rule Athens 404 BCE  Democracy restored in Athens 403 BCE  Trial and execution of Socrates 399 BCE  Plato establishes the Athens Academy 380 BCE  Sparta defeated in Leuctra 371 BCE  Thebes defeats Sparta at Mantinea 362 BCE  Philip II, becomes King of Macedonia 359 BCE  Macedonian army defeats Athens and its allies at Chaeronea League of Corinth founded 338 BCE  Phillip II Assassinated. Alexander the great  becomes king of Macedonia 336 BCE  Aristotle founds the Lyceum in Athens 335 BCE  Alexander the Great defeats Persian army at Granicus river in Anatolia 334 BCE  Alexander the Great defeats Persians at Issus 333 BCE  Tyre capitulates to Alexander after siege 332 BCE  Alexander invades Egypt City of Alexandria founded in Egypt Alexander defeats Persians at Gaugamela 331 BCE  Alexander's army reaches Bactria (Afghanistan ) 329 BCE  Alexander marries Roxane (princes of Bactria) 327 BCE  Alexander's army reaches India 326 BCE  Death of Alexander the Great 323 BCE  Hellenistic Period (323-146) Aristotle dies 322 BCE  Stoic philosopher Zeno founds school in Athens 310 BCE  Stoic philosopher Epicurus founds school in Athens 307 BCE  Ptolemy I founds museum in Alexandria 300 BCE  Archimedes (287-212) born in Syracuse 287 BCE  Achaean League founded 284 BCE  Invasion of Greece by Gauls 279 BCE  Gauls defeated by king Attalus I 238 BCE  First Macedonian War (214-204) Rome defeats Philip V of Macedon 214 BCE  Second Macedonian War (200-196) Victory of Flamininus at Cynoscephalae 200 BCE  Third Macedonian War (172-168/7) Lucius Aemelius Paulus of Rome defeats Perseus of Macedon at Pydna. Macedonia divided into four republics 172 BCE  Roman 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 BCE  Battle of Aktion Octavian (later Augustus) defeats Mark Antony and Cleopatra  31 BCE  Death of Cleopatra 30 BCE  End of "Ancient Greece" period I told you everything I know

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1. First Olympic games  2. The fight between Sparta and Athens  I am sure there are more!

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