Timeline of Greece's Important events
-2900 BC 2900-2000 BC: The Bronze Age when Early Aegean cultures start to -emerge
-2500 BC The great Minoan civilization
-1200 BC The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium)
-1050 BC 1050-750 BC: The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture
-850 BC 850 - 700 BC: Development of the first Greek Alphabet
-776 BC The First Olympic Games are staged
-750 BC 750 -700 BC: Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey
-730 BC 730-710 BC - the First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia
-650 BC The Rise of the Greek tyrants
-621 BC Draco's code of law is introduced
-600 BC Greek Coin currency introduced
-500 BC The Greek Classical Period
-505 BC Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens
-490 BC Greek / Persian Wars led by Xerxes
-468 BC Sophocles writes his first tragedy
-461 BC The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens
-449 BC Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens
-441 BC Euripides writes his first tragedy
-443 BC Pericles leads Athens
-430 BC Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens
-431 BC Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens
-420 BC Construction of Temple of Athena Nike
-399 BC Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants
-386 BC Plato founds the Academy
-384 BC Aristotle is born
-359 BC Philip II becomes the king of the Greeks
-356 BC Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born
-333 BC Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at Issus and is given Egypt by the Persian Satrap where he builds a capital at Alexandria and founds the great library
-323 BC Alexander the Great dies at Babylon
-323 BC The Hellenistic Period
-224 BC Earthquake destroys the Colossus of Rhodes
- 196 BC: First Roman victory over Greece
-197 BC King Philip V of Greece loses to Roman forces at Kynoskephalai
-86 BC The Roman General Sulla captures Athens
-33 AD Crucifixion of Jesus and the origin of Christianity
-267 AD The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth
-286 AD The Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman empire in two forming modern Greece (the Byzantine Empire)
-641 AD The Slavs overrun Greece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_ancient_Greece
-2500 BC The great Minoan civilization
-1200 BC The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium)
-1050 BC 1050-750 BC: The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture
-850 BC 850 - 700 BC: Development of the first Greek Alphabet
-776 BC The First Olympic Games are staged
-750 BC 750 -700 BC: Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey
-730 BC 730-710 BC - the First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia
-650 BC The Rise of the Greek tyrants
-621 BC Draco's code of law is introduced
-600 BC Greek Coin currency introduced
-500 BC The Greek Classical Period
-505 BC Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens
-490 BC Greek / Persian Wars led by Xerxes
-468 BC Sophocles writes his first tragedy
-461 BC The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens
-449 BC Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens
-441 BC Euripides writes his first tragedy
-443 BC Pericles leads Athens
-430 BC Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens
-431 BC Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens
-420 BC Construction of Temple of Athena Nike
-399 BC Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants
-386 BC Plato founds the Academy
-384 BC Aristotle is born
-359 BC Philip II becomes the king of the Greeks
-356 BC Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born
-333 BC Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at Issus and is given Egypt by the Persian Satrap where he builds a capital at Alexandria and founds the great library
-323 BC Alexander the Great dies at Babylon
-323 BC The Hellenistic Period
-224 BC Earthquake destroys the Colossus of Rhodes
- 196 BC: First Roman victory over Greece
-197 BC King Philip V of Greece loses to Roman forces at Kynoskephalai
-86 BC The Roman General Sulla captures Athens
-33 AD Crucifixion of Jesus and the origin of Christianity
-267 AD The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth
-286 AD The Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman empire in two forming modern Greece (the Byzantine Empire)
-641 AD The Slavs overrun Greece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_ancient_Greece