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Q

3000-1400

A

Minoans

1
Q

4000

A

Pelasgians

2
Q

1400-1100

A

Mycenaeans

3
Q

1100

A

Dorian Invasion

4
Q

1582

A

Cecrops founded Athens

5
Q

1313

A

Cadmus founded Thebes

6
Q

2800-1050

A

Bronze Age

7
Q

2400

A

Height of Cretan Power

8
Q

1900

A

Cretan palaces destroyed by earthquakes

9
Q

1250

A

Final destruction of Knossus

10
Q

1287

A

Battle of Cadesh

Between Egyptians and Hittites

11
Q

1900 AD

A

Sir Arthur Evans unearths Knossus

12
Q

1283

A

Pelops arrives in Elis

13
Q

1261

A

Hercules’ born

14
Q

1225

A

Theseus is king of Athens
Unification of Attica
Oedipus is king of Thebes

15
Q

1209

A

Hercules dies

16
Q

1192-1183

A

Trojan War

17
Q

c. 850

A

Homer

18
Q

734

A

Corcyra is founded

19
Q

8th century struggle

First major conflict in Greek history

A

Lelantine War

Between Chalcis and Eretria

20
Q

725-705

A

1st Messenian War

21
Q

640-631

A

2nd Messenian War

22
Q

c. 885

A

Lycurgus rules Sparta

23
Q

c. 620

A

Draco rules Athens

24
Q

462

A

Areopagus does something

25
Q

632

A

Cylon’s plot

26
Q

590

A

1st Sacred War

27
Q

630

A

Theagenes becomes tyrant of Megara

28
Q

664

A

Corinth vs Corcyra

First recorded naval battle

29
Q

c. 655

A

Cypselus becomes tyrant of Corinth

30
Q

687-652

A

Gyges

31
Q

776

A

Olympic Games founded

32
Q

582

A

Pythian and Isthmean Games founded

33
Q

576

A

Nemean Games founded

34
Q

700

A

Deioces founded Media

35
Q

594

A

Solon is elected archon

36
Q

556

A

Pisistratus’ first expulsion from Athens

37
Q

550

A

Pisistratus’ return with Phye

38
Q

549

A

Pisistratus’ second expulsion

39
Q

546

A

Pisistratus’ final rise to power

40
Q

527

A

Pisistratus’ death

Hippias’ and Hipparchus’ rise to power

41
Q

510

A

Cleomenes’ expels Hippias

42
Q

507

A

Cleisthenes restores democracy to Athens

43
Q

487-417

A

Ostracism used

44
Q

540

A

Polycrates seizes Samos with the aid of his brothers

45
Q

499

A

Ionian revolt

46
Q

494

A

Battle of Lade

47
Q

493

A

Themistocles is elected Archon

48
Q

491

A

Darius sends envoys

49
Q

490

A

Battle of Marathon

50
Q

489

A

Aristides is elected archon

51
Q

487

A

Militiades secures his downfall

52
Q

485

A

Darius dies

53
Q

484

A

Xanthippus is ostracized

54
Q

482

A

Aristides is ostracized

55
Q

481

A

Synedrion of Probuloi

56
Q

480

A

Battle of Artemissium
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Himera

57
Q

479

A

Battle of Plataea
Battle of Mycale
Siege of Sestos

58
Q

480-430

A

Pentekontoetia

59
Q

477

A

Delian League

60
Q

474

A

Battle of Cyme

61
Q

484-440

A

Herodotus of Halicarnassus

62
Q

471

A

Themistocles is ostracized

Pausanius is starved to death

63
Q

469

A

Naxos is the first to revolt from the Delian League

64
Q

468

A

Battle of Eurymedon

Double land battle

65
Q

464

A

3rd Messenian War

66
Q

461

A

Cimon is ostracized

67
Q

454

A

Delian treasury is moved from Delos to Athens

68
Q

451

A

Pericles restricts citizenship

69
Q

458

A

Battle of Aegina

70
Q

457

A

Battle of Tanagrea

Battle of Oenophyta

71
Q

446

A

Thirty years treaty

72
Q

440

A

Samos revolts from the Delian League

73
Q

415

A

Protagorus

74
Q

449

A

2nd Sacred War

First Peace of Callias

75
Q

431

A

Sparta declares war on Athens

76
Q

430

A

Plague in Athens

77
Q

429

A

Pericles dies

78
Q

428

A

Massacre at Mytilene barely prevented

79
Q

425

A

Siege of Sphacteria and Pylos

Sparta’s first surrender

80
Q

424

A

Battle of Delium

Socrates saves the life of Alcibiades

81
Q

423

A

One year’s truce

82
Q

422

A

Battle of Amphipolis

83
Q

421

A

Peace of Nicias

84
Q

420

A

Alcibiades chosen strategos

85
Q

418

A

Battle of Mantinea

86
Q

417

A

Hyperbolus becomes the last person ostracized

87
Q

416

A

Massacre at Melos

“MIGHT MAKES RIGHT”

88
Q

415

A

Expedition to Syracuse

Downfall of Alcibiades

89
Q

414

A

Siege of Syracuse

90
Q

413

A

Defeat at Syracuse

91
Q

410

A

Revolt of Four Hundred

92
Q

405

A

Battle of Aegospotami

93
Q

404

A

Surrender of Athens

Rule of Thirty

94
Q

395-386

A

Corinthian War

95
Q

368

A

Ariobarzanes initiated a congress at Delphi.

Sparta wins “tearless battle”.

96
Q

364

A

Pisans and Arcadians invade Olympia during Olympic Truce.

Battle of Cynoscephalae.

97
Q

401

A

Persian mercenary expedition.
Battle of Cunaxa.
March of Ten Thousand.

98
Q

398

A

Lysander secures the kingship of Agesilaus

99
Q

395

A

Lysander dies

100
Q

394

A

Battle of Cnidus

Battle of Coronea

101
Q

387

A

King’s Peace

102
Q

383

A

Sparta tries to screw with Thebes

103
Q

371

A

Battle of Leuctra

Second Peace of Callias

104
Q

374

A

Jason gained control of Thessaly by winning over Parsalus

105
Q

370

A

Jason assassinated

106
Q

362

A

Battle of Mantinea

Epaminondas dies

107
Q

363

A

Timotheus recovered Byzantium

108
Q

411

A

Battle of Syme

109
Q

146

A

Fall of Corinth due to Rome’s conquest of Greece

110
Q

399

A

Socrates’ trial and death

111
Q

398-397

A

First Punic War

112
Q

392

A

Second Punic War

113
Q

383-378

A

Third Punic War

114
Q

378

A

Second Athenian League

115
Q

368-367

A

Fourth Punic War

116
Q

355

A

Chares accuses Timotheus, Iphicrates, and all Athenian generals of deliberate treachery

117
Q

344

A

Timoleon expels Dionysus and reestablish democracy in Syracuse

118
Q

c. 380

A

Archelaus of Macedon

119
Q

365

A

Perdiccas becomes king of Macedon

120
Q

356

A

Third Sacred War

121
Q

355

A

Aristotle establishes a school at Lyceum

122
Q

349

A

Battle of Olynthus

123
Q

338

A

Battle of Chaeronea

124
Q

336

A

Philip II is stabbed by Pausanius

Alexander ascends the throne

125
Q

354-350 & 350-346

A

Eubulus manages Theoric Fund in Athen

126
Q

334

A

Battle of Granicus

127
Q

333

A

Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot
Alexander crowns the tomb of Achilles
Battle of Issus

128
Q

332

A

Conquest of Syria, Phoenicia, and Egypt

129
Q

331

A

Battle of Guagamela

130
Q

330

A

Battle of Persepolis

Alexander assumes the title of Basileus

131
Q

327

A

Alexander enters India

132
Q

326

A

Battle of Hydapses

133
Q

June 13, 323

A

Alexander dies

134
Q

88

A

Athens and other city-states revolt against Rome. Sulla crushes the Revolt

135
Q

1879 AD

A

Schliemann unearths Troy

136
Q

1876 AD

A

Schliemann unearths Mycenae

137
Q

499-479

A

Persian Wars

138
Q

431-404

A

Peloponnesian Wars

139
Q

570

A

Sparta awards Solon Salamis, instead of Megara

140
Q

585

A

Thales predicts eclipse of the sun

141
Q

469

A

Epaminondas frees Messenia from slavery to Sparta

142
Q

407

A

Alcibiades deposed again

143
Q

287-212

A

Archimedes

144
Q

1500

A

Volcanic eruption on Thera

145
Q

351

A

Demsothenes gives his first Philippic