Ancient Greece
Explore Ancient Greece on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Age of Pericles in Athens (461 BCE)
- Athenian democracy founded (508 BCE)
- Hellenistic period (323 BCE)
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Socrates (469 BCE)
- Mycenaean civilisation rises (1600 BCE)
- Minoan civilisation flourishes on Crete (2000 BCE)
- Bronze Age collapse (1200 BCE)
- Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)
- Battle of Salamis (480 BCE)
- Pericles (495 BCE)
- Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE)
- Construction of the Parthenon (447 BCE)
- Philip II of Macedon (382 BCE)
- Greek alphabet developed (800 BCE)
- Homer (800 BCE)
- Solon's reforms at Athens (594 BCE)
- Trial and death of Socrates (399 BCE)
- Thucydides (460 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War begins (431 BCE)
- Herodotus (484 BCE)
- Rise of the polis (750 BCE)
- Roman conquest of Greece (146 BCE)
- Battle of Gaugamela (331 BCE)