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Ancient Greece - Dates
1.
Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilisations
3000 BCE
2.
Start of Minoan civilisations
2500 BCE
3.
Minoan civilisation starts to decline
1600 BCE
4.
Eruption of volcano on Thera
1500 BCE
5.
First Olympic Games
776 BCE
6.
Homer receives credit for writing the Illiad and Odyssey
750 BCE
7.
First Greek colonies established on the island now known as Sicily
720 BCE
8.
Female poet Sappho born on the Greek island of Lesbos
610 BCE
9.
Cleisthenes creates democratic government in Athens
508 BCE
10.
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE
11.
Battle of Thermopylae
480 BCE
12.
Herodotus writes his account of the Persian War.
450 BCE
13.
Construction of Parthenon is started in Athens
447 BCE
14.
Peloponnesian War begins
431 BCE
15.
End of Peloponnesian War
404 BCE
16.
Philip of Macedonia conquers majority of Greek city-states
338 BCE
17.
Alexander the Great dies
323 BCE
18.
Rome finally defeats Macedon, forcing it to give up the Greek city-states it formerly controlled
197 BCE
19.
Rome conquers Corinth, the last resisting city-state in Greece.
146 BCE
20.
Ancient Greece collapses
145 BCE