Greco-Persian Wars
Explore Greco-Persian Wars 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)
- Battle of Marathon (490 BCE)
- Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE)
- Battle of Salamis (480 BCE)
- Battle of Plataea (479 BCE)
- Themistocles builds the fleet (483 BCE)
- Xerxes bridges the Hellespont (480 BCE)
- Xerxes burns Athens (480 BCE)
- Ionian Revolt (499 BCE)
- Delian League founded (478 BCE)
- The burning of Sardis (498 BCE)
- Herodotus's Histories (430 BCE)
- Reign of Xerxes I (486 BCE)
- Reign of Darius the Great (522 BCE)
- Darius demands earth and water (491 BCE)
- Battle of Artemisium (480 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- The Peace of Callias (449 BCE)
- Battle of Mycale (479 BCE)
- Aeschylus's The Persians (472 BCE)
- Reign of Leonidas I (489 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Age of Pericles in Athens (461 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire founded (550 BCE)