Timeline Part 1 Flashcards
470s BCE
479 -Battles of Salamis and Mycale
mark end of Persian War on Greek territory
-Athenians begin building Long Walls
478 -allied fleet takes Cyprus and Byzantium
472 -Aeschylus’ Persians wins 1st prize at Dionysia
471 -Themistocles Medizes
460s BC
467 -Naxos secedes from DL, forced back in
465 -Thasos secedes from DL, forced back in by 462
466 -Battle of the Eurymedon (end of Persian War)
465 -Athenians unsuccessfully attempt to colonize Amphipolis
464 -helots revolt in Sparta, Cimon goes to help
461 -Cimon ostracized
460 -beginning of First Peloponnesian War
-DL campaign in Egypt (vs. Persians) (unsuccessful, lasts until 454)
-Ephialtes’ reforms at Athens
450s BC
459 -Corinthian invasion of Megara repelled by Athenians,
-Sparta joins war
457 -Battle of Tanagra
456 -Athens takes control of most of Boeotia (except Thebes) 454 -DL treasury transferred to Athens
451 -5-year truce negotiated with Sparta
-Periclean citizenship laws
-DL expedition to Cyprus (death of Cimon)
-Peace of Callias (under question)
440s BC
448 -Athens attempts to take over Delphi, Second Sacred War
447 -Boeotia revolts from Athens
445 -end of First Peloponnesian War (Thirty Years’ Peace)
443 -Athenians found Thurii in S. Italy
440 -Samos and Byzantium rebel from DL, forced back
430s BC
start og Thucydides
437 -Athens founds Amphipolis
433 -Athens/Corcyra vs. Corinth and Megara at Corycra (no winner)
432 -Athens besieges Potidaea (lasts 2 years)
431 -Thebes attacks Plataea, Athenians help, treaty with Spartans broken
-official beginning of Peloponnesian War
-evacuation of Attica, 1st Spartan incursion
430 -Pericles delivers Funeral Oration
-Pericles deposed from generalship (re-elected next year)
-Plague of Athens begins
420s BC
429 -Siege of Plataea
-death of Pericles
-Athenians blockade Corinth
427 -Mytilenean Debate (Cleon at center)
-oligarchic revolt on Corcyra
425 -Athenians occupy Pylos, Battles of Pylos and Sphacteria
-Spartans propose peace (rejected, *Cleon)
424 -Athenians take port of Megara
-Battle of Delium
-Athenians declare war on Macedonia
423 -Athenians lose Amphipolis to Spartans
-1-year armistice declared
421 -Peace of Nicias
-Argives form alliance with Elis, Corinth, Mantinea, etc.
420 -Corinth, Megara, and Thracians form alliance
-Athens forms 100-year treaty with Argos, Mantinea, and Elis
410s BC
419 -Spartans march on Argos
418 -Battle of Mantinea (Sparta regains power on Peloponnese)
-Argos leaves alliance to join Sparta
-Argos overthrows oligarchy, renews ties to Athens
416 -Melian Dialogue/Siege of Melos
415 -Sack of Melos
-Mutilation of the Herms
-Sicilian Expedition
414 -Athenians reinforce Sicilian expedition
-Spartans attack Argos
413 -Athenians send new commanders to Sicily
-Spartans fortify Decelea
-Athenians switch DL tribute to 5% harbour tax
-defeat at Syracuse and total failure of Sicilian Expedition
412 -Tissaphernes and Pharnabazus ally with Spartans
-revolts in Ionia, eastern Aegean
-oligarchic rumblings in Samos (*Athenian fleet)
411 -Aristophanes’ Lysistrata performed
-The 400 take power at Athens
-fleet at Samos remains democratic
-The 400 deposed, democracy restored
-Battle at Cyzicus
-end of Thucydides’ narrative/beginning of Xenophon’s
400s BC
409 -Olympics held
-Athenians defeated at Ephesus by Tissaphernes
-Athenians take Abydos
408 -Athenians take more cities on Hellespont (Byzantium)
407 -Thrasybulus punishes revolted Thracian cities
-Alcibiades returns to Athens
-Athenians lose to PL at Notium (near Ephesus)
-Athenians choose new generals
-Alcibiades sails off to Chersonese by himself
406 -PL on Lesbos, Battle of Arginusae, storm
-trial of Athenian generals after Arginusae disaster
405 -Battle of Aegospotami
-PL defeats Athens at Sestos, take further cities on Hellespont (*Byzantium)
404 -Spartans besiege Athens
-death of Alcibiades
-terms of peace accepted, war over, DL dissolved
-Thirty Tyrants installed by Spartans
403 -Spartan garrison installed at Athens, violent revolt
-Thirty Tyrants deposed, democracy restored
-Carthaginians defeat Syracuse
-Samos besieged and taken by Spartans
401 -Cyrus marches to Cunaxa to overthrow Artaxerxes, defeated
390s BC
399 -trial/death of SocratesSpartans
-Spartans wall off Chersonese
-truce between PL and Persians
-Spartans go to war with Elis
397 -end of war with Elis
-Agis dies, Agesilaus becomes king
395 -Battle of the Meander
-Tissaphernes executed
-Beginning of Corinthian War (Sparta declares war on Thebes)
-Siege of Haliartos
394 -Battle of Nemea
-Battle of Coronea
393 -Pharnabazus pays for rebuilding of Long Walls, Athenian fleet
-Athens seizes Scyros, Imbros, and Lemnos (cleruchies)
392 -oligarchic supporters put to death in Corinth
-failed peace talks
-Persians provide fleet to Spartans
391 -Spartans invade Arcadia, Argos
390 -battles at Corinth
-double Isthmian Games
380s BC
389 -conflict between Achaeans and Acarnanians
-Spartans defeat Acarnanians
388 -Spartans go to war with Acarnania, Argos
387 -King’s Peace
-Thebes disbands Boeotian League
382 -Spartans occupy Thebes
370s BC
379 -Thebans expel Spartan garrison, oligarchs
-Athenians and Thebes ally against Sparta
-Second Athenian League established
376 -SAL defeats Sparta at Naxos
375 -SAL defeats Sparta at Alyzeia
371 -Battle of Leuctra
-Arcadian League formed, Megalopolis founded
-Messenia liberated by Thebans
360s BC
366 -PL quietly dissolved
364 -Theban fleet stirs up revolt in Hellespont (*Byzantium)
362 -Battle of Mantineia
350s BC
359 -Philip II takes throne of Macedonia
357 -Athenians take Chersonese
-Social War (*influence of Mausolus)
353 -Philip invited to Thessaly
351 -Demosthenes delivers First Philippic
352 -Philip appointed archon of Thessaly
340s BC
349 -Philip takes Olynthus
346 -Peace of Philocrates
342 -Athenians sends embassy to Peloponnese (vs. Philip)
340 -Philip besieges Byzantium, seizes Athenian grain fleet
330s BC
339 -Athens and Thebes form alliance against Macedonia
338 -Battle of Chaeronea
337 -League of Corinth established with Philip as hegemon
336 -death of Philip
335 -Aristotle founds Lyceum
