Greek Times: 1100 – 480

from Will Durant: The Story of Civilization

1100-850
Aeolian and Ionian migrations

1000
Temple of Hera at Olympia

840
Probable period of Homer

776
First Olympic Games

770
Sinope and Cumae

757-756
Cyzicus and Trapezus

752
First decennial archons

750-650
Greeks settle Thracian peninsula

750-594
Age of the aristocracies

750
Probable period of Hesiod

735
Naxos (Sicily)

734
Corcyra Syracuse

730-729
Rhegium, Leontini, Cataoa

725-705
First Messenian War

725
Coinage in Lydia and Ionia

721
Sybam; 710, Crotona; 705: Taras; 700, Poseidonia; beginnings of Greek architecture in stone

683
First annual archons at Athens

680
Pheidon dictator at Argos; earliest state coinage in Greece

676
Orthagoras dictator at Sicyon

670
Terpander of Lesbos, poet and musician; Archilochus of Paros, poet; Homeric hymns to Apollo and Demeter

660
Laws of Zaleucus at Locri

658
Byzantium; 654, Lampsacus

655-625
Cypselus dictator at Corinth

651
Selinus; 650, Abdera and Olbia

648
Himera; Myron dictator at Sicyon 640-631: Second Messenian War; Tyrtaeus, poet, at Sparta

630
Laws of Lycurgas at Sparta (?)

630
Cyrene; 615, Abydos

625-585
Periander dictator at Corinth

620
Laws of Draco at Athens

615
Thrasybulus dictator at Miletus

610
Laws of Charondas at Catana

600
Naucratis; Massalia (Marseilles); Cleisthenes dictator at Sicyon Pittacus at Mytilene; Sappho and Alcaeus, poets of Lesbos; Thales of Miletus, philosopher; Alcman, poet, at Sparta; rise of sculpture

595
First Sacred War

594
Laws of Solon at Athens

590
Age of the Seven Wise Men; rise of the Amphictyonic League and Orphism; second Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

582
First Pythian and Isthmian games; the Acropolis statues and the "Apollo"

580
Acragas; Aesop of Samos, fabulist

576
First Nemean games

570
Phalaris dictator at Acragas; Stesichorus of Himera, poet; Anaxamander of Miletus, philosopher

566
First Panathenaic games

561-560
First dictatorship of Peisistratus

560-546
Croesus of Lydia subjugates Ionia

558
Carthage conquers Sicily and Corsica

550
Emporium (Spain); 535, Elea (Italy)

546-527
Second dictatorship of Peisistratus at Athens

543
Persia subjugates Ionia

544
Anaxamenes of Miletus, philosopher

540
Hipponax of Ephesus, poet

535-515
Polycrates dictator of Samos; Theodorus of Samos, artist; Anacreon of Teos, poet

534
Thespis establishes drama at Athens

530
Theognis of Megara, poet

529-500
Pythagoras, philosopher, at Crotona

527-510
Hippias dictator at Athens

520
Olympieum begun at Athens

517
Simonedes of Ceos, poet

514
Conspiracy of Harmodius and Aristogeiton

511
Phrynichus of Athens, dramatist

510
Destruction of Sybaris by Crotona

507
Cleisthenes extends democracy at Athens

500
Hecataeus of Miletus, geographer

499
Ionia revolts; Aeschylus’ first play

497
Ionian Greeks burn Sardis

494
Persians defeat Ionians at Lade

493
Themistocles archon at Athens

490
Marathon; temple of Aphaea at Aegina

489
Aristides archon; trial of Miltiades

488-472
Theron dictator at Acragas

487
First selection of archons by lot

485-478
Gelon dictator at Syracuse

485
Epichartnus establishes comedy at Syracuse

482
Ostracism of Aristides

480
Battles of Artemisium, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Himera; Ageladas of Argos, sculptor  
Battles of Plataea and Mycale