| -4400 |
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Minoan (or Aegean) culture established in Crete |
| -2700 |
|
First settlement at Troy |
| -1600 |
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Greek tribes settle in Greece and Asia Minor |
| -1400 |
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Knossos sacked - end of Minoan civilization |
| -1200 |
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Siege of Troy, and adventures of Iliad and Odyssey |
| -1200 |
|
Mycaenean civilization starts to decline |
| -776 |
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First Olympic Games held in Greece |
| -700 |
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Death of Homer (writer) |
| -700 |
|
Lydians introduce metal coinage |
| -540 |
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Death of Croesus, fabulously rich king of Lydia |
| -510 |
|
Democratic constitution established in Athens |
| -490 |
|
Death of Pythagoras (mathematician and philosopher) |
| -490 |
|
Greeks defeat Persians under Darius and Xerxes |
| -460 |
|
Golden Age of Greece under Pericles |
| -450 |
|
Death of Aeschylus (dramatist) |
| -450 |
|
Great statue of Zeus built at Olympia |
| -430 |
|
Death of Hippocrates (physician) |
| -430 |
|
Peleponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta |
| -406 |
|
Death of Sophocles and Euripides (dramatists) |
| -400 |
|
Death of Democritus (philosopher) |
| -399 |
|
Death of Socrates (philosopher) |
| -385 |
|
Death of Aristophanes (comic dramatist) |
| -348 |
|
Death of Plato (philosopher) |
| -340 |
|
Greece reunited under Philip II - second flowering of arts |
| -330 |
|
Alexander the Great defeats Persians - expands towards India |
| -320 |
|
Alexander the Great dies and Greek empire is split |
| -320 |
|
Death of Aristotle (philosopher) |
| -300 |
|
Euclid develops geometry |
| -250 |
|
Parthians control much of Eastern Greek empire |
| -210 |
|
Death of Archimedes (mathematician and scientist) |
| 120 |
|
Death of Plutarch (biographer and writer) |
| 200 |
|
Death of Claudius Galen (physician) |
| 267 |
|
Goths overrun Greece, capture Athens and sack other cities |
