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Greek

By dazzman.mckenzie@fwcsstudents.org
  • 2000 BCE

    First Settlers

    First Settlers
    Wandering tribes begin to settle in Greece in which one of the classical civilizations begins and influences western thought.
  • 1600 BCE

    Mycenaean Greece

    Bronze Age Greece was inhabited by the Mycenaean people. They took their name from the capital city of their land, Mycenae.They were the second group of Greeks to rule the area.
  • 1194 BCE

    Trojan War begins

    Trojan War begins
    The Trojan war between the Greeks and the Trojans inhabitants of Troy. It began when Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, kidnapped Helen, wife of King Menelaus of Sparta. When the Trojans refused to return her, the Greeks formed an army, led by Agamemnon, including Achilles, Odysseus and the two Ajaxes.
  • 1184 BCE

    Trojan War Ends

    Trojan War Ends
    On April 24, 1184 BCE, the city of Troy fell to invading Greek armies, ending the Trojan War. ... The Trojan War ended when the Greek commander Odysseus devised a plan to invade the walled city. The Greeks pretended to give up. Before leaving the Trojan beaches, they gave the Trojans a present—a giant wooden horse.
  • 1100 BCE

    Dorian Invaders

    Mycenaean Greece was invaded by Dorian tribesmen from the north. The Dorians had iron weapons which they use to good effect to defeat and conquer the Mycenaeans.
  • 850 BCE

    Alphabet was crated

    The Greek alphabet was developed from the Phoenician alphabet. This helped with law and all most every thing else
  • 800 BCE

    Homer composed his poems

    Homer composed his poems – the Iliad and the Odyssey. The Iliad is an epic poem set in the Trojan War while the Odyssey tells the story of the adventures of Odysseus on his return from the Trojan war.
  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

    First recorded Olympic games. The games were held at Olympia. There was one event – the men’s 200m sprint. The games where crated to take the peoples mind of war.
  • 743 BCE

    First Messenian War begin

    the First Messenian War was a war between two Greek-city states that were in close proximity of each other. Messenia and Sparta were both located on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece. It got started in 743 , according to Pausanias, an Ancient Greek traveler and geographer.The two city-states had a fierce rivalry between one another which eventually erupted in violence.
  • 724 BCE

    First Messenian War ends

    First Messenian War ends
    The First Messenian war was fought between Messenia and Sparta and although the Spartans were victorious, it didn’t resolve all the problems. The two sides would fight in two more wars. In fact, these First Messenian Wars broke out as part of a larger, more widespread problem that had been going on for some time. The first war lasted 24 years
  • 650 BCE

    Rise of the Tyrants

    The rule of aristocratic leaders was challenged by lesser aristocrats or wealthy tradesmen who wanted to overthrow the monopoly of the aristocrats. Known as tyrants they seized power from the aristocracy and took over rule in their stead.
  • 621 BCE

    Draco’s Code of Law

    The laws of Athens had previously been a set of oral laws. Draco introduced a new set of harsher laws which were written down for all to read. For many crimes the punishment was death.
  • 600 BCE

    Money

    Money
    The first Greek coins appeared. This help make trade easier
  • 508 BCE

    Democracy

    Democracy began in Athens
  • 495 BCE

    Pythagoras

    Pythagoras
    The philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras, died in Metapontum. Pythagoras of Samos was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, Western philosophy
  • 490 BCE

    First Persian Warr

    First Persian Warr
    The first Persian invasion of Greece, during the Persian Wars, began in 492 BC, and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC
  • 480 BCE

    Second Persian War

    The Second Persian war began when Persia’s King Xerxes led an invasion force into Greece.
  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Thermopylae

    Battle of Thermopylae
    The Persians defeated the Greeks in the Battle off Thermopylae
  • 480 BCE

    Battle of Salamis

    The Greeks defeated the Persians in the Battle of Salamis
  • 432 BCE

    Parthenon completed

    Parthenon completed
    The Parthenon was completed. The temple was built in Athens to house a statue of Goddess Athena so that she could watch over the city.
  • 431 BCE

    Peloponnesian Wars begins

    Peloponnesian Wars begins
    The Peloponnesian War was an ancient Greek war fought by the Delian League led by Athens against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta.
  • 404 BCE

    Peloponnesian Wars ends

    Peloponnesian Wars ends
    Athens lost the Peloponnesian Wars. The Athenian democratic government was removed and replaced by a ruling body of 30 tyrants.
  • 403 BCE

    Democracy

    Democracy was restored to Athens
  • 399 BCE

    Socrates

    Socrates
    The philosopher Socrates, founder of philosophy, was charged with impiety (being disrespectful to the Gods) he was found guilty and executed.
  • 380 BCE

    Academy

    Academy
    The philosopher Plato, student of Socrates, founded the Academy in Athens.
  • 359 BCE

    Philip II

    Philip II
    Philip II became King of Macedon. He was a grate king
  • 347 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
    The philosopher, Plato, student of Socrates, founder of The Academy and author of The Republic died in Athens.
  • 339 BCE

    Catapult

    Catapult
    The Catapult was invented at Syracruse
  • 338 BCE

    Battle of Chaeronea

    Battle of Chaeronea
    Philip II, King of Macedon conquered Greece.with his sons help alexander the great