Flashcards

Ancient Greece - Dates

Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilisations

750 BCE

197 BCE

3000 BCE

480 BCE

3000 BCE

Start of Minoan civilisations

2500 BCE

450 BCE

447 BCE

146 BCE

2500 BCE

Minoan civilisation starts to decline

610 BCE

338 BCE

1600 BCE

Eruption of volcano on Thera

1500 BCE

610 BCE

145 BCE

338 BCE

1500 BCE

First Olympic Games

1600 BCE

776 BCE

323 BCE

776 BCE

Homer receives credit for writing the Illiad and Odyssey

750 BCE

450 BCE

508 BCE

447 BCE

750 BCE

First Greek colonies established on the island now known as Sicily

447 BCE

197 BCE

720 BCE

480 BCE

720 BCE

Female poet Sappho born on the Greek island of Lesbos

720 BCE

447 BCE

146 BCE

610 BCE

Cleisthenes creates democratic government in Athens

720 BCE

447 BCE

197 BCE

508 BCE

Battle of Marathon

145 BCE

610 BCE

146 BCE

490 BCE

Battle of Thermopylae

3000 BCE

431 BCE

480 BCE

Herodotus writes his account of the Persian War.

480 BCE

431 BCE

1600 BCE

450 BCE

Construction of Parthenon is started in Athens

404 BCE

447 BCE

720 BCE

610 BCE

447 BCE

Peloponnesian War begins

2500 BCE

431 BCE

447 BCE

431 BCE

End of Peloponnesian War

323 BCE

146 BCE

404 BCE

776 BCE

404 BCE

Philip of Macedonia conquers majority of Greek city-states

480 BCE

447 BCE

338 BCE

431 BCE

338 BCE

Alexander the Great dies

1500 BCE

323 BCE

1500 BCE

447 BCE

323 BCE

Rome finally defeats Macedon, forcing it to give up the Greek city-states it formerly controlled

197 BCE

610 BCE

145 BCE

197 BCE

Rome conquers Corinth, the last resisting city-state in Greece.

431 BCE

146 BCE

490 BCE

431 BCE

146 BCE

Ancient Greece collapses

145 BCE

1500 BCE

404 BCE

323 BCE

145 BCE

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