Chronology of Events
3000 Human settlement on site of present-day Athens begins The King Must
Die - immediately before 1450 1450 destruction of palace at Knossos The Bull From the Sea -
immediately following 1450
1200 Troy captured and destroyed 776 Olympic games begin 750 poet Hesiod lives 735 First Messenian War: Spartan conquest of Messenia 700 colonies formed in Syracuse and Tarentum 650 Second Messenian War: unsuccessful revolt of Messenia 621 Draco institutes harsh laws at Athens 594 Solon (638-559) becomes archon at Athens. Serfdom abolished, government by property owners 560 Pistratus (605-527) tyrant of Athens, promotes building and expansion The Praise Singer 508 Cleisthenes introduces Athenian democracy -- all freemen vote 507 Athens repels attack by Sparta 500s Athens grows rapidly, acropolis rebuilt as religious shrine 499-49 Persian wars: Athenians repel repeated invasion by Persians 480 Athens sacked 479 rebuilding of Athens begins, fortification, walls enclose piraeus 478 Delian League formed to oppose Persia, from 467 controlled by Athens 464-1 Third Messenian War, unsuccessful revolt by Messina 460-29 Age of Pericles (495-20). 447-38 Parthenon is built. The Last of the Wine 431-04 Peloponneisan War ends Athens' dominance in Greece 411 Oligarchy established in Athens; democracy reestablished in months 403 Spartan rule in Athens by Thirty Tyrants is overthrown 399 Socrates (470-399) forced to poison himself The Mask of Apollo 395-87 Corinthian War between Sparta and Athens (allied with Persia); Spartan control of Athens ends 387 Plato founds Academy 371 Thebes defeats Sparta, dominates Greece briefly Fire From Heaven 355-38 Sacred Wars (third and fourth) among various states. Two wars (355-46 and 339-38) end in Macedonian control over Greece 335 Aristotle opens Lyceum The Persian Boy 334-24 Alexander the Great (356-23) rapidly conquers vast empire from Greece to the Indus Valley Funeral Games 323-281 Wars of the Diadochi, rival generals for control of the empire. After Corupedion (281) divided into Macedonia, Seleucid Asia Minor, and Ptolemaic Egypt 214-148 Macedonian Wars: Greece becomes province of the Roman Empire
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