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Ancient Greece Timeline

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  2900 BC2900-2000 BC: The Bronze Age when Early Aegean cultures start to emerge 
     
  2500 BCThe great Minoan civilization 
     
  1200 BCThe Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium) 
     
  1050 BC1050-750 BC: The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture 
     
  850 BC850 - 700 BC: Development of the first Greek Alphabet 
     
  776 BCThe First Olympic Games are staged 
     
  750 BC750 -700 BC: Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey 
     
  730 BC730-710 BC - the First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia 
     
  650 BCThe Rise of the Greek tyrants 
     
  621 BCDraco's code of law is introduced 
     
  600 BCGreek Coin currency introduced 
     
  500 BC500-323 BC - The Greek Classical Period 
     
  505 BCCleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens 
     
  490 BCGreek / Persian Wars led by Xerxes 
     
  468 BCSophocles writes his first tragedy 
     
  461 BC461-446 BC: The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens 
     
  449 BC449 -432: Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens 
     
  441 BCEuripides writes his first tragedy 
     
  443 BC443 - 429 BC Pericles leads Athens 
     
  430 BCOutbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens 
     
  431 BCSecond of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens 
     
  420 BC420 - 410: Construction of Temple of Athena Nike 
     
  399 BCSocrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants 
     
  386 BCPlato founds the Academy 
     
  384 BCAristotle is born 
     
  359 BCPhilip II becomes the king of the Greeks 
     
  356 BCAlexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born 
     
  333 BCAlexander 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 
     
  323 BCAlexander the Great dies at Babylon 
     
  323 BC323 -31 BC: The Hellenistic Period 
     
  224 BCEarthquake destroys the Colossus of Rhodes 
     
  200 BC200 - 196 BC: First Roman victory over Greece 
     
  197 BCKing Philip V of Greece loses to Roman forces at Kynoskephalai 
     
  86 BCThe Roman General Sulla captures Athens 
     
  33 ADCrucifixion of Jesus and the origin of Christianity 
     
  267 ADThe Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth 
     
  286 ADThe Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman empire in two forming modern Greece (the Byzantine Empire) 
     
  641 ADThe Slavs overrun Greece 
     
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