9000 bc
Neolithic Age in Crete

3400-3000
Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, I

3400-2100
Neolithic Age in Thessaly

3400-1200
Bronze Age to Crete

3000-2600
Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, II

3000
Copper mined in Cyprus

2870
First known settlement at Troy

2600-2350
Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, III

2350-2100
Middle Minoan Helladic, Cycladic, I

2200-1200
Bronze Age in Cyprus

2100-1950
Middle Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, II;
first series of Cretan palaces

2100-1600
Chalcolithic Age in Thessaly

1950-1600
Middle Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic, III

1900
Destruction of first series of Cretan palaces

1600-1500
Late Minoan, Helladic (Mycenaean),
Cycladic, I; second series of Cretan palaces

1600-1200
Bronze Age in Thessaly

1582 (by legend)
Foundation of Athens by Cecrops

1500-1400
Late Minoan, Helladic (Mycenaean), Cycladic, II

1450-1400
Direction of second series of Cretan palaces

1433 (by legend)
Deucalion and the Flood

1400-1200
Late Minoan, Helladic (Mycenaean), Cycladic, III; palaces of Tiryns and Mycenae

1313 (by legend)
Foundation of Thebes by Cadmus

1300-1100
Age of Achaean domination in Greece

1283 (by legend)
Coming of Pelops into Elis

1261-1209 (by legend)
Heracles

1250
Theseus at Athens; Oedipus at Thebes; Minos and Daedalus at Cnossus

1250-1183
"Sixth city" of Troy; age of the Homeric heroes

1225 (by legend)
Voyage of the Argonauts

1213 (by legend)
War of the Seven against Thebes

1200 (by legend)
Accession of Agamemnon

1192-1183
Siege of Troy

1176 (by legend)
Accession of Orestes