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Timeline of Ancient Greece
BC 1000-700 Synoikismos of Athens, people of Attica were willing to transfer their allegiance to one city, Athens, because of Theseus 683 office of Archon established King was emasculated 632 Cylon, Athenian noble, seizes Acropolis and tries to make himself king, fails 621 Draco, Athenian lawgiver, issues code of laws where everything is punishable by death -- Draconian 594 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 Sappho, Greek poetess and priestess, flourishes on island of Lesbos 565 Pisistratus, Athenian general, organizes Diakrioi, party of poor people 561 Pisistratus takes power first time, driven out by Lycurgus who leads nobles 559 Pisistratus restored by help of Megacles 556 Pisistratus expelled, makes fortune from Thracian mines 546 Croesus, rich king of Lydia, killed at Sardis by Persians 546 Pisistratus restored by Thessaly and Lygdamos of Naxos 527 Pisistratus dies, succeeded by sons Hippias and Hipparchus 525 Persian Darius I, son-in-law of Cyrus the Great takes Egypt 507 Cleisthenes, Greek reformer, takes power, increases democracy 490 Themistocles and Miltiades, Athenians, defeat Darius at Marathon, Phidippides runs with news 484 Aeschylus, Athenian playwright, wins Athenian Prize 480 Leonidas, Spartan, makes sacrifice of 300 Spartans at Thermopylae so main force can escape, Xerxes son of Darius is leading the Persians 480 Battle of Salamis - Themistocles, Athenian general, lures Persians into Bay of Salamis, Xerxes loses and goes home, leaves behind Mardonius 479 Pausanius, Greek general routs Mardonius at Plataea 479 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 Cimon elected general each year, he was victorious over Persia and then enforced military power on Delian League 474 Pindar, Greek poet moves to Thebes from court at Syracuse 471 Themistocles ostracized 468 Sophocles, Greek playwright, defeats Aeschylus for Athenian Prize 461 Cimon ostracized 457 Pericles, Athenian statesman begins Golden Age, he was taught by Anaxagoras, who believed in dualistic Universe and atoms 456 Aeschylus dies 449 Herodotus, Greek Historian, writes History of Greco-Persian War from 490-479 448 Ictinus and Callicrates, Greek architects rebuild Acropolis from Persain destruction 441 Euripides, Greek playwright, wins Athenian prize 440 Heraclitus, Greek philospher, believes everything is mutable 435 Phidias, Greek sculptor, completes Zeus at Elis 1 of 7 wonders 433 Corinth and Sparta Megara and Aegini also ally against Corfu and Athens Rhegium and Leontini also 432 End of Golden Age, Peloponnesian Wars begin Athens under Pericles blockades Potidaea, Corfu declares war on Corinth 431 Sparta led by Archidamus II sets out to destroy Athens 431 Empedocles, Greek doctor, believes body has 4 humors 430 Failed peace mission by Athens, bubonic plague year, Sparta takes no prisoners 430 Leucippus, Greek philospher, believes every natural event has natural cause 429 Phormio, Atheinian admiral, wins at Chalcis 429 Pericles dies of bubonic plague 429 Hippocrates, Greek doctor, believes diseases have physical cause 428 Mitylene rebels, chief city of Lesbos 427 Archidamus II dies, Alcidas, Greek admiral sent to help Lesbos, raids Ionia and flees after seeing Athenian might 427 Mitylene surrenders to Athens, Plataeans surrender to Athens 427 Aristophanes, Greek playwright, wins Athenian Prize 426 Corfu secures island for Athens 426 Demosthenes, Athenian general, and Cleon, Athenian demagogue, revitalizes Athenian forces, makes bold plans opposed by Nicias, his first military campaign barely succeeds 425 Athenian fleet bottles up Spartan navy at Navarino Bay, Nicias resigns 424 Syracuse sends Athenians home 424 Pagondas of Thebes crushes Athenian army at Delium, Brasidas a Spartan general makes a successful campaign, Cleon exiles Thucydides for 20 years for arriving late 423 Truce of Laches supposed to stop Brasidas but doesn't, Nicias leads Athenian forces in retaking Mende 422 Cleon meets Brasidas outside of Amphipolis, both are killed 421 Peace of Nicias brings temporary end to war, but Alcibiades, a nephew of Pericles, makes anti-Sparta alliance 420 Quadruple alliance of Athens, Argus, Mantinea, and Elis confronts Spartan-Boeotian alliance 419 King Agis, ruler of Sparta, attacks Argus, makes treaty 418 Mantinea, greatest land battle of war, gives Sparta victory over Argus, which broke treaty, Alcibiades thrown out, alliance broken 416 Alcibiades makes plans, is restored to power 415 Hermai are mutilated in Athens, Alcibiades accused, asks for inquiry, told to set sail for battle, is condemned to death in absentia, he defects to Sparta 414 Lemachus, Athenian commander killed at Syracuse 413 Nicias and Demosthenes killed at Syracuse 412 Alcibiades is thrown out of Sparta, conspires to come back to Athens 411 Democracy ends in Athens by Antiphon, Peisander, and Phrynichus, overthrown by Theramenes, Constitution of the 5000, Athenian navy recalls Alcibiades, confirmed by Athenians 410 After several successes, Athenian demagogue Cleophon rejects Sparta peace overtures 409 Byzantium recaptured by Alcibiades for Athens 408 Alcibiades reenters Athens in triumph, Lysander, a Spartan commander, builds fleet at Ephesus 407 Lysander begins destruction of Athenian fleet, Alcibiades stripped of power 406 Callicratides, Spartan naval leader, loses Battle of Arginusae over blockade of Mitylene harbor, Sparta sues for peace, rejected by Cleophon 405 Lysander captures Athenian fleet, Spartan king Pausanius lays siege to Athens, Cleophon executed, Corinth and Thebes demand destruction of Athens 404 Athens capitulates Apr 25 Theramenes secures terms, prevents total destruction of Athens, Theramenes and Alcibiades are killed 401 Thucydides, Greek historian, leaves account of Golden Age and Pelopennesian War at his death 399 Socrates, Greek philospher, condemned to death for corrupting youth 347 Plato, Greek philospher, founds Academy 342 Aristotle, Greek philosopher, begins teaching Alexander, son of Philip of Macedon 338 Philip of Macedon defeats Athens and Thebes in last struggle for Greek Independence at Battle of Cheronea Aug 2 336 Alexander succeeds father, who was assassinated at the wedding feast of his daughter 333 Alexander defeats Persians at Battle of Issus, Oct, but Darius III escapes 332 Alexander conquers Egypt 331 at Battle of Arbela Oct 1, Alexander end Achaemenid Dynasty and takes Persian Empire 330 Democritus, Greek philosopher, develops Atomic theory, believes cause and necessity, nothing comes out of nothing 329 Alexander conquers Samarkand 327 Alexander invades Northern India, but army is tired so doesn't pursue it 323 Alexander 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 Meander, Greek playwright, wins Athenian prize 300 Euclid, Greek mathematician, publishes Elements, treating both geometry and number theory (see also Euclidean algorithm) 295 Athens falls to Demetrius, Lachares killed 265 Archimedes, Greek mathematician, develops screw, specific gravity, center of gravity; anticipates discoveries of integral calculus
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