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Minoan cities buried in ash from volcano on island of Thera (Santorini)
-1620
Disaster, Greece
Emergence of Mycenaean civilization on Greek mainland
-1600
Government, Greece
Great palace built at Mycenae
-1600
Architecture, Greece
Minoan civilization of Crete destroyed by Mycenaeans
-1400
War, Greece
Fall of Troy
-1260
War, Greece
First pan-Hellenic games in Olympia
-776
Peace, Greece
Trieme developed in Greece
-650
Invention, Greece
By 630 BC, Messene has become a subject city of Sparta
-630
War, Greece
Solon becomes chief ruler, inaugurating great age of Athenian civilization
-594
Government, Greece
Pisistratus becomes tyrant of Athens
-560
Government, Greece
Cleisthenes' archonship
-525
Government, Greece
Cleisthenes introduces an early form of democracy in Athens
-507
Government, Greece
Athenians defeat Persians at Marathon
-490
War, Greece
Xerxes wins Battle of Thermopylae, but loses to the Greeks at Salamis
-480
War, Greece
Greeks defeat Persians at Battle of Platea--made possible the golden age of Greece
-479
War, Greece
Formation of Delian League
-478
Government, Greece
First production of Aeschylus' Persians
-472
Arts, Greece
Ostracism of Themistocles--becomes a governor for Artaxerxes I in Asia Minor
-471
Government, Greece
Sparta Earthquake; Helot Revolt
-464
Disaster, Greece
Completed Long Walls built from Athens to Piraeus
-457
Government, Greece
Delian League treasure moved to Athens
-454
Government, Greece
Athens/Sparta 30 years of peace
-445
Peace, Greece
Parthenon completed in 432 BC
-432
Architecture, Greece
Pericles gives oration for dead from Peloponnesian War during the past 12 months
-431
War, Greece
Outbreak of plague in Athens
-430
Disaster, Greece
Death of Pericles
-429
Government, Greece
After invading Syracuse in -415, Athens loses complete expeditionary force
-415
War, Greece
Completion of Erechtheum (Temple on the north side of the Acropolis)
-408
Architecture, Greece
Battle of Aegispotami
-405
War, Greece
Athens surrenders
-404
War, Greece
Xenophon and the '10,000' expedition in Asia Minor lasting until 399 BC
-401
War, Greece
Socrates sentenced to death in Athens for not believing in the gods
-399
Religion, Greece
Plato establishes the first school of philosophy
-387
Philosophy, Greece
Beginning of Second Athenian Confederation
-378
Government, Greece
Alexander assumes throne and defeats revolting Greeks after his father is killed
-366
War, Greece
Battle of Mantinea--Thebans led Boeotian league against Spartans
-362
War, Greece
Aristotle teaches Alexander for three years
-342
Education, Greece
Philip II Macedon defeats Athens and Thebes at Battle of Chaeronea
-338
War, Greece
Elements of Geometry written by Euclid in c. 320 BC
-320
Mathematics, Greece
Colossus of Rhodes, a 33 meter high statue, completed
-280
Arts, Greece
Roman Legion defeats Macedonian Phalanx at Battle of Cynoscephalae
-197
War, Greece
Alaric leads Visigoths in invasion of Greece
401
War, Greece
Suleiman forces Knights of St. John to leave Rhodes & form new base in Malta
1523
War, Greece
Greeks call for rebellion against Turkish rule
1821
War, Greece
A combined British, Russian, and French fleet attacks the Ottomans at Navarino
1827
War, Greece
Greece gains independence from Ottomans--first Balkan state to do so
1829
Geography, Greece
Olympics reopen in Greece
1896
Peace, Greece