8th Century B.C. Ancient Greece
Period of the rise of the individual city-states or poleis.- 800-700
Rise of the Poleis - 725
Sparta turns the Messenians into Helots
Messenian Wars end 668 B.C.
7th Century B.C. Ancient Greece
6th Century B.C. Ancient Greece
- 594
Solon elected sole archon - 521
Darius, King of Persia - 508/7
Democratic Reforms of Cleisthenes
5th Century B.C. Ancient Greece
- 490
Battle of Marathon - 479
Battle of Salamis - 477
Delian League - 462
Pericles persecutes Cimon - 460
1st Peloponnesian War - 446
Beginning 30 year's peace - 425
Alcibiades breaks Peace of Nicias - 421-413
2nd Stage of Peloponnesian War - 413-404
3rd Stage of Peloponnesian War ending when Athens surrenders. - 404-403
Spartan hegemony
4th Century B.C. Ancient Greece
- 395-387
Corinthian War - 392
Romans begin conquest of Italy - 355
Philip of Macedonia begins conquest of Greece - 338
Philip victorious over Greece at the Battle of Chaeronea - 336
Philip assassinated - 333
Battle of Issus - Alexander the Great
3rd Century B.C. Ancient Greece
- 215-169
Macedonian Wars
