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Period: 800 BCE to 480
archaic period
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776 BCE
First Olympic Games
Was originally a festival or celebration for the God, Zeus. It was a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states -
757 BCE
First Messenian War
The First Messenian War was a war between Messenia and Sparta. It began in 743 BC and ended in 724 BC, according to the dates given by Pausanias.
Sparta wanted there rich land. -
754 BCE
Polydorus
Was a King of Sparta of the 10th Agiad dynasty. and changed some of the constitution of Sparta. -
735 BCE
Perdiccas I of Macedon
Was a king of Macedonia and he fled from Argos to Macedonia to and conquers the land -
734 BCE
Polydorus sends colonists to Italy.
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725 BCE
Lelantine War between Chalcis and Eretria
A military conflict between the two city state. -
719 BCE
Polydorus death
Polydorus is murdered by polymarchus -
Period: 685 BCE to 665 BCE
The second Messenian War
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656 BCE
Cypselus subjects Corinth to Tyranny
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Period: 645 BCE to 560 BCE
Spartan wars with Tegea
Are all unsuccessful. -
642 BCE
Battus
or 634. He establishes a Greek colony in Cyrene in Libya -
632 BCE
Cylon
was an athenian noble, seizes Acropolis and tries to make himself however he fails. -
621 BCE
Draco
Was an Athenian lawgiver, issues code of laws, with many crimes punishable by death.
The most influential was the Law of Draco. -
594 BCE
Solon
Athenian statesman, becomes Archon (the chief magistrate) -
569 BCE
Pythagoras is born
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565 BCE
Peisistratos
Athenian general, organises Diakrioi party of poor people. -
525 BCE
Persian Cambyses II
was the son of cyrus the great takes Egypt -
515 BCE
Hippias
becomes sole ruler after the death of hipparchus -
507 BCE
cleisthenes
Greek reformer, takes power, increases 'democracy' -
490 BCE
Themistocles and miltiades
Athenians, defeat Darius at marathon, phidippides runs with news -
490 BCE
Battle of Marathon
Battle against the Persians. -
590
Sappho
Greek poet, flourishes on island of lesbos
