40,000 BC | Stone Age signs of habitation |
7,000 BC Neolithic | Farming communities in Europe: Northern Greece Nea Nikomidhia near Veroia |
3000-1500 | Minoan Age: earliest European civilization Crete |
2,800-2,000 | Early Brnze Age: proto-hellenic language use of copper Early Helladic Cyclades/Crete |
2,000-1,100 | Mycenaean Age: earliest major civ Minoan & Myceneaen Palatial period |
1,581 BC | Athens unites from Attika: Kekrops mythical founder of Athens? |
1,300 BC | Thesseus Greek Super Hero unites villages of Attica? "Synoecism" |
1200-750 | Dark Age: 2 Dorian invasions: Athens by-passed |
750-478 | Archaic Age: Greeks colonize shores of Mediterranean |
508 | Beginnings of Democracy in Athens |
490 | Persians invade, Battle Marathon, Persian retreat |
480-79 | Persians invade under Xerxes, sack/destroy Acropolis loose sea battle: Salamis,. retreat |
478-339 | Classical Age of Greece: Greece center of "civilized" world |
447 | Construction of Parthenon begins |
432-404 | Peloponnesian War Athens vs Sparta plus allies |
399 | Socrates forced to allowed/drink Conium suicide |
339-168 | Hellenistic Age Alexander and his heirs Empires |
168-330 | Roman Age of Dominance in Greece |
146 | Athens under Rome's rule |
86 | Sulla sacks Athens |
54 BC | St. Paul visits Athens preaches Aeropagus converts Dionyssus |
267 AD | Heruli sack Athens |
396 | Visigothes sack Athens |
330-1204 | Byzantine Age: Greek Empire of Constantinople |
435 | Emperor Thodosius bans pagan worship/closes temples Delphi etc. |
529 | Emperor Justinian order closure the Philosophical Schools of Athens, Stoics, Epicures, etc. |
590 | Slavs sack Athens |
1204-1453 | Frankish Period: Greece under Crusader rule |
1205 | French Crusaders take Athens |
1260 | Duchy of Athens created |
1311-1388 | The Catalan's take controll of Athens |
1388-1456 | The Florentine Acciajuoli rule Athens |
1456-1821 | Ottoman Turks rule Athens and Greece |
1645 | Venetian Morosoni attacks Ottomans blow up Acropolis |
1687 | Morosoni succeeds in taking Athens, looses it later |
1821-27 | Greek War of Independence |
1827-present | Independent State of Greece |
1830 | Kingdom of Greece established Bavarian 17 yr. old made King: Otho |
1836 | Athens becomes capital of Greece |
1843 | Otho forced to grant constitution |
1863 | William of Denmark becomes King George the First of Greece |
1896 | 1st modern Olympics held in Athens |
1922-3 | Asia minor catastrophe: many refugees come to Athens |
1940 | War with Italy: Greeks takes 22,000,000 prisoners |
1941-44 | The Nazis sack Athens/starve many thousands: WWII |
1944 | Civil strife: left against right |
1946-49 | Civil War |
1967-74 | Colonels Dictatorship |
1973 | Student up-rising Polytechnic University/many killed |
1981 | Greece joins EU |
Archeological Terminology |
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3,000-2,000 BC | Early Helladic |
2,000-1,600 BC | Middle Helladic |
1,600-1,100 BC | Late Helladic |
1,100-1,050 BC | Sub-Myceneaen |
1,050-900 BC | Early Geometric |
900-700BC | Geometric |
700-480 BC | Archaic |
480-323 | Classical |
323-30 BC | Hellenistic |
30 BC-324 AD | Roman |