1. Patricia Lidia Said,

   Before Christ

   3000Human settlement on site of present-day Athens begins
   The King Must Die – immediately before 1450
   1450destruction of palace at Knossos
   The Bull From the Sea – immediately following 1450
   1200Troy captured and destroyed
   776Olympic games begin
   750poet Hesiod lives
   735First Messenian War: Spartan conquest of Messenia
   700colonies formed in Syracuse and Tarentum
   650Second Messenian War: unsuccessful revolt of Messenia
   621Draco institutes harsh laws at Athens
   594Solon (638-559) becomes archon at Athens. Serfdom abolished, government by property owners
   560Pistratus (605-527) tyrant of Athens, promotes building and expansion
   The Praise Singer
   508Cleisthenes introduces Athenian democracy — all freemen vote
   507Athens repels attack by Sparta
   500sAthens grows rapidly, acropolis rebuilt as religious shrine
   499-49Persian wars: Athenians repel repeated invasion by Persians
   480Athens sacked
   479rebuilding of Athens begins, fortification, walls enclose piraeus
   478Delian League formed to oppose Persia, from 467 controlled by Athens
   464-1Third Messenian War, unsuccessful revolt by Messina
   460-29Age of Pericles (495-20).
   447-38Parthenon is built.
   The Last of the Wine
   431-04Peloponneisan War ends Athens’ dominance in Greece
   411Oligarchy established in Athens; democracy reestablished in months
   403Spartan rule in Athens by Thirty Tyrants is overthrown
   399Socrates (470-399) forced to poison himself
   The Mask of Apollo
   395-87Corinthian War between Sparta and Athens (allied with Persia); Spartan control of Athens ends
   387Plato founds Academy
   371Thebes defeats Sparta, dominates Greece briefly
   Fire From Heaven
   355-38Sacred Wars (third and fourth) among various states. Two wars (355-46 and 339-38) end in Macedonian control over Greece
   335Aristotle opens Lyceum
   The Persian Boy
   334-24Alexander the Great (356-23) rapidly conquers vast empire from Greece to the Indus Valley
   Funeral Games
   323-281Wars of the Diadochi, rival generals for control of the empire. After Corupedion (281) divided into Macedonia, Seleucid Asia Minor, and Ptolemaic Egypt
   214-148Macedonian Wars: Greece becomes province of the Roman Empire

   Modern Greek History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Modern_Greece
   References :
   http:/www.wwu.edu/~stephan/Renault/greek.chronology.html

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