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| | 2900 BC | 2900-2000 BC: The Bronze Age when Early Aegean cultures start to emerge | |
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| | 2500 BC | The great Minoan civilization | |
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| | 1200 BC | The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium) | |
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| | 1050 BC | 1050-750 BC: The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture | |
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| | 850 BC | 850 - 700 BC: Development of the first Greek Alphabet | |
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| | 776 BC | The First Olympic Games are staged | |
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| | 750 BC | 750 -700 BC: Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey | |
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| | 730 BC | 730-710 BC - the First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia | |
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| | 650 BC | The Rise of the Greek tyrants | |
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| | 621 BC | Draco's code of law is introduced | |
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| | 600 BC | Greek Coin currency introduced | |
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| | 500 BC | 500-323 BC - The Greek Classical Period | |
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| | 505 BC | Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens | |
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| | 490 BC | Greek / Persian Wars led by Xerxes | |
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| | 468 BC | Sophocles writes his first tragedy | |
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| | 461 BC | 461-446 BC: The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens | |
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| | 449 BC | 449 -432: Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens | |
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| | 441 BC | Euripides writes his first tragedy | |
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| | 443 BC | 443 - 429 BC Pericles leads Athens | |
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| | 430 BC | Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens | |
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| | 431 BC | Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens | |
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| | 420 BC | 420 - 410: Construction of Temple of Athena Nike | |
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| | 399 BC | Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants | |
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| | 386 BC | Plato founds the Academy | |
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| | 384 BC | Aristotle is born | |
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| | 359 BC | Philip II becomes the king of the Greeks | |
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| | 356 BC | Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born | |
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| | 333 BC | Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at Issus and is given Egypt by the Persian Satrap where he builds a capital at Alexandria and founds the great library | |
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| | 323 BC | Alexander the Great dies at Babylon | |
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| | 323 BC | 323 -31 BC: The Hellenistic Period | |
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| | 224 BC | Earthquake destroys the Colossus of Rhodes | |
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| | 200 BC | 200 - 196 BC: First Roman victory over Greece | |
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| | 197 BC | King Philip V of Greece loses to Roman forces at Kynoskephalai | |
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| | 86 BC | The Roman General Sulla captures Athens | |
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| | 33 AD | Crucifixion of Jesus and the origin of Christianity | |
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| | 267 AD | The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth | |
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| | 286 AD | The Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman empire in two forming modern Greece (the Byzantine Empire) | |
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| | 641 AD | The Slavs overrun Greece | |
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