Dates Flashcards
3000-1400
Minoans
4000
Pelasgians
1400-1100
Mycenaeans
1100
Dorian Invasion
1582
Cecrops founded Athens
1313
Cadmus founded Thebes
2800-1050
Bronze Age
2400
Height of Cretan Power
1900
Cretan palaces destroyed by earthquakes
1250
Final destruction of Knossus
1287
Battle of Cadesh
Between Egyptians and Hittites
1900 AD
Sir Arthur Evans unearths Knossus
1283
Pelops arrives in Elis
1261
Hercules’ born
1225
Theseus is king of Athens
Unification of Attica
Oedipus is king of Thebes
1209
Hercules dies
1192-1183
Trojan War
c. 850
Homer
734
Corcyra is founded
8th century struggle
First major conflict in Greek history
Lelantine War
Between Chalcis and Eretria
725-705
1st Messenian War
640-631
2nd Messenian War
c. 885
Lycurgus rules Sparta
c. 620
Draco rules Athens
462
Areopagus does something
632
Cylon’s plot
590
1st Sacred War
630
Theagenes becomes tyrant of Megara
664
Corinth vs Corcyra
First recorded naval battle
c. 655
Cypselus becomes tyrant of Corinth
687-652
Gyges
776
Olympic Games founded
582
Pythian and Isthmean Games founded
576
Nemean Games founded
700
Deioces founded Media
594
Solon is elected archon
556
Pisistratus’ first expulsion from Athens
550
Pisistratus’ return with Phye
549
Pisistratus’ second expulsion
546
Pisistratus’ final rise to power
527
Pisistratus’ death
Hippias’ and Hipparchus’ rise to power
510
Cleomenes’ expels Hippias
507
Cleisthenes restores democracy to Athens
487-417
Ostracism used
540
Polycrates seizes Samos with the aid of his brothers
499
Ionian revolt
494
Battle of Lade
493
Themistocles is elected Archon
491
Darius sends envoys
490
Battle of Marathon
489
Aristides is elected archon
487
Militiades secures his downfall
485
Darius dies
484
Xanthippus is ostracized
482
Aristides is ostracized
481
Synedrion of Probuloi
480
Battle of Artemissium
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Himera
479
Battle of Plataea
Battle of Mycale
Siege of Sestos