Ancient Greece Timeline

The Bronze Age

3,000 BC to 1100 BC
2,000 - 1,700 BC Mycenean enter mainland Greece.
1,700 - 1,500 BC The height of Minoan Civilization is reached.
1,400 BC The rise of Mycenean naval strength.
1,200 BC The Trojan War, civil war, and the fall of the Mycenean.
1,150 BC Dorian Immigration into Greece mainland.
1,150 - 1,100 BC Aeolian Immigrations begin to Asia Minor.

The Dark Age

1,100 - 800 BC
1,100 BC End of Mycenean age and civilization. Early city states are ruled through monarchy.
1,100 - 1,000 BC Ionian Immigration to Asia Minor.
900 BC Dorian migration to the Aegean islands, Asia Minor (area around Rhodes), and through the Peloponnesus.

Archaic Period

800 BC - 500 BC
800 - 700 BC Monarchies begin to be replaced by Aristocratic Republics.
776 BC Date of the first Olympic games.
621 BC Draco's code of law - Athens.
600 BC Coin currency introduced.
566 BC Panathenaic festivals established.
546 BC Persian invasion and conquest of Greek territories through out Asia Minor.
507 BC Cleisthenes' democratic constitution.

Classical Period

500 - 400 BC
490 BC First Persian invasion of Greece, the Battle of Marathon.
480 BC Second Persian invasion of Greece, Spartans are defeated at Thermopylae, Athens is occupied by the Persians. The Persians are finally defeated at Salamis.
The founding of the Delian League.
479 BC Persians are defeated at Plataea.
448 BC Peace with the Persians
443 - 429 BC Pericles is leader of Athens during the Golden Age.

431 - 404 BC The Peloponnesian War
430 BC Plague in Athens
411 BC Revolts in Athens
404 BC Athens Surrenders to Sparta.

Late Classical Period

400 - 330 BC

395 - 340 BCWarfare between rival Greek leagues.
371 BC Thebes defeats Sparta at Leuctra
338 BC Philip of Macedonia leads the Greek City States.
336 - 323 BC Alexander the Great's reign begins.

Hellenistic Age

330 - 30 BC

323 - 148 BC Greek City States remain relatively independent. Frequent warfare continues between rival leagues.
200 - 196 BC First Roman victories over Greece.
148 BC Macedonia becomes a Roman providence.
146 BC Corinth destroyed by the Romans.
86 BC Athens is sacked by Sulla.