1600's BC
Thessalian tribe known as the Achaeans overrun the
Peloponnese
700-500BC
Archaic Age of Greece
657-585BC
Cypselus and Periander makes Corinth into a strong city
620BC
Draco writes a law code
for Athens
594BC
Solon writes the Code of
Solon
570-500BC
Cleisthenes proposes a new system of democracy in Athens
546-528BC
Pesistratus rules Athens as a wise and capable tyrant
499BC
Persian invasion of
Greece; Athenians defeat
the Persians at Marathon
480BC
A greater Persian invasion
of Greece. Spartan standoff at Thermopylae; Athenian naval
victory at Salamis and
victory at Plataea allow the Greeks to survive. 431BC
Peloponnesian War
begins when Sparta invades Athens
500-429BC
Pericles leads Athens to prominence in Greece
415BC
Disastrous Athenian
expedition to Syracuse leads to defeat
405BC
Sparta wins the
Peloponnesian War
317BC
Thebans defeat the
Spartans in a pitched battle at Leuctra
338BC
Philip of Macedon
defeat the Greeks at
Chaeronea to conquer Greece 336BC
Alexander the Great
becomes King of Macedon 334BC
Alexander defeats
Persian army at Granicus
333BC
Persian King Darius
is defeated at Issus at the hands of Alexander
327BC
All of Persia
conquered by Alexander
326BC
Alexander wins
battle of Hydaspes against Porus of India
323BC
Alexander dies at
Babylon
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