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