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\pard\tx1275\tx4935\ATXts240\ATXbrdr0 \f1 1000 B.C. \b \cf4 \ATXht178 Greek migrati
ons\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 into Anatolia, the \par
Mediterranean, and southern Italy\par
\par
900 B.C Pottery with geometric designs\par
Emergence of Sparta\par
Amphictyony [association] of the Greek cities close to the \b \cf4 \ATXht3121 te
mple of Apollo\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 in Delphi\par
\par
800 B.C \b \ATXul1024 \cf2 \ATXht8 Homer\b0 \ATXul0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , epic poet 776 Start of the Olympic Games, held every\par
Hesiod of Ascra in Boeotia, poet four years at Olympia, with athlete
s from\par
every city taking part \par
756 Foundation of Cyme (Cumae)\par
733 Foundation of \b \cf4 \ATXht1124 Syracuse\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 by the Corinthians\par
720 Foundation of Sybaris\par
ca. 708 Foundation of Croton\par
ca.
706 Foundation of Tarentum\par
\par
700 B.C ca. 700 Lycurgus and the Spartan constitution\par
ca. 700 Foundation of \b \cf4 \ATXht1120 Posidonia\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 (later Paestum)\par
690 Foundation of Metapontus\par
688 Foundation of Gela
\par
683 Monarchy is replaced by the Archonship in Athens\par
\par
650 B.C Thales, Anaximenes, and Anaximander Greek colonization of the Pontus\par
lay the foundations of philosophical 650 Foundation of Selinus (Selinunte)\par
thought 624 La
ws of Dracon in Athens\par
601/570 (?) The tyranny of \b \cf2 \ATXht3 Cleisthenes\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 620 Beginning of monetary system in Greece\par
of Sicyon giving an immediate boost to the economy\par
and commerce. Each city or colony creates
a coinage of its own\par
\par
600 B.C 594/593 \b \ATXul1024 \cf2 \ATXht19 Solon\b0 \ATXul0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and his reforms Foundation of Massilia (Marseilles)\par
580/500 Pythagoras of Samos Alcaeus and Sappho on Lesbos\par
580 Foundation of Ac
ragas (Agrigento)\par
561 Beginning of the tyranny of Peisistratus in Athens\par
\par
550 B.C 540 Pythagoras in Croton 510 Fall of the tyranny in Athens\par
530 Birth of Aeschylus 508 Democratic reforms of Cleisthenes in Athens\par
520 Birth
of Pindar\par
\par
\par
\par
500 B.C 496 Birth of Sophocles at Colonus 494 Persian expedition led by Darius against\par
493 Themistocles archon in Athens Greece, battle and fall of Miletus\par
480/406 Euripides, Athenian tragic poet 490 Miltiad
es defeats the Persians at Marathon\par
470 Birth of Socrates 484 Alliance of Xerxes with Carthage against\par
470/430 \b \cf2 \ATXht13 Myron\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , sculptor Greece\par
460/420 Polycleitus, sculptor 480 The Persian war. King Leonidas of
Sparta\par
457/456 \b \cf2 \ATXht16 Pericles\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and his democratic halts the Persians at Thermopylae. Naval\par
reforms in Athens battle of Salamis won by the Greeks\par
The sculptor Myron is born at Eleutheris 478 Ch
arioteer of Delphi\par
477 Delian League (Alliance of Athens and the Ionian cities against the Persians)\par
470 Cimon defeats the Persians at Eurymedon\par
461 Cimon ostracized from Athens and his place taken by Ephialtes and Pericles
\par
\par
450 B.C 450 Birth of Aristophanes 449 The Greeks defeat the Persians at Salamis\par
430 Xenophon is born 448 Phidias' statue of Zeus in Olympia\par
429 Death of Pericles 447/438 Construction of the \b \cf4 \ATXht5122 Parthenon\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 to the\par
425 Death of the historian \b \cf2 \ATXht8 Herodotus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 design of the architects Ictinus and\par
406 Death of Euripides and Sophocles Callicrates and its decoration by \b \ATXul1024 \cf2 \ATXht16 Phidias\par
\b0 \ATXul0 \cf0 \ATXht0 445 Thirty Years Peace between Athens and Sparta\par
431404 Peloponnesian War and fall of Athens to the Spartans under the leadership of Lysander\par
430 Plague in Athens\par
421 Peace of Nicias between Sparta and Athen
s\par
415-413 Athenian expedition to Sicily against Syracuse\par
413 The Athenian fleet destroyed at Syracuse\par
404 Thirty Tyrants in Athens\par
403 Thracybulus drives out the Tyrants\par
\par
400 B.C 399 Socrates condemned to deat
h 394 The Persians defeat the Spartans at the battle\par
384 Aristotle is born at Stagira of Cnidus\par
362 Death of Epaminondas 369/366 The Thebans invade the Peloponnesus\par
353 Death of Mausolus under Spartan rule. The Athenians ally\par
with the Spartans against Thebes\par
362 The Athenians and Spartans are defeated by Epaminondas (who is killed) at the battle of Mantinea\par
357/346 First ½Holy War╗ launched by the Phocians against Athens in which Demosth
enes and Aeschines come into conflict\par
\par
350 B.C Scopas of Paros, sculptor and architect 339 Second ½Holy War ╗ led by Philip II of\par
348336 King Philip II of Macedonia Macedonia against Athens\par
347 Death of Plato 338 Philip
II of Macedonia defeats the Thebans\par
and Athenians at Chaeronea in Boeotia\par
336-323 \b \cf2 \ATXht1 Alexander the Great\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 335 Alexander destroys Thebes\par
333 Battle of Issus and defeat of the Persians\par
331 Alexander
inflicts final defeat on the Persians at Gaugamela\par
331 Foundation of Alexandria\par
330 Alexander burns Persepolis and occupies Pasargadae\par
\par
300 B.C The poet Theocritus is born in Syracuse 290 Museum and Library of Alexandria
\par
295/272 King Pyrrhus of Epirus\par
263/241 King Eumenes I of Pergamum\par
241/197 King Attalos I of Pergamum\par
\par
\par
250 B.C 212 Syracuse sacked by the Romans. \par
Archimedes\par
\par
200 B.C 196 Consul Flamininus proclaims the
independence of the Greeks\par
ca. 180 Construction of the great altar in Pergamum\par
\par
150 B.C 146 The Romans sack Corinth\par
133 Attalos III of Pergamum bequeaths his kingdom to the Romans\par
129 Creation of the Rom
an province of Asia\par
\par
100 B.C 86 Sack of Athens by Sulla