| 1700-1450 b.c.* |
Height of Minoan civilization |
| 1400-1230 |
Height of Mycenaean civilization |
| 1100-800 |
Dark Age |
| c. 700 |
Homer |
| 750-550 |
Age of Colonization |
| 621 |
Draco's code of law |
| 594 |
Solon is elected chief executive |
| 546-527 |
Under Pisistratus, tyranny replaces oligarchy |
| 507 |
Cleisthenes broadens democratic institutions |
| 499 |
Ionians revolt against Persian rule |
| 490 |
Athenians defeat Persians at battle of Marathon |
| 480 |
Xerxes of Persia invades Greece; Greek naval victory at Salamis |
| 479 |
Spartans defeat Persians at Plataea, ending Persian Wars |
| 478-477 |
Formation of Delian League |
| 431 |
Start of Peloponnesian War |
| 429 |
Death of Pericles |
| 413 |
Athenian defeat at Syracuse |
| 404 |
Athens surrenders to Sparta, ending Peloponnesian War |
| 399 |
Execution of Socrates |
| 387 |
Plato founds a school, the Academy |
| 359 |
Philip II becomes king of Macedonia |
| 338 |
Battle of Chaeronea: Greek city-states fall under the dominion of Macedonia |
| 335 b.c. |
Aristotle founds a school, the Lyceum |
*Some dates are approximations
