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Neolithic/stone age.
Earliest period of human settlement at the Athens site.
3000-1500BC
Early Bronze Age.
Minoan Age (earliest european civilisation centred upon Crete).
1500-1200BC
Mycenaean
Age.
Centered at Mycenae
in the Peloponnese.
Earliest civilisation based on mainland Greece.
1100 metre 'Lions Gate' built at Mycenae.
By 1400bc Athens is a powerful Mycenaean centre.
1250BC - Troy and The Trojan War.
1556 - 1068BC
Athens is ruled by the Kings of
Athens.
1200-750BC
The
Greek Dark Ages.
The Doric invasions.
End of Mycenaean civilisation.
Beginnings of the Greek city state.
1200-1100BC
Dorian
Invasion.
Athens escapes major sacking and distruction during the Doric invasions.
It becomes less significant however, and dwindles in size and influence.
1068 - 753BC
Athens is ruled by hereditary life Archons
(city magistrates).
750-478BC
Archaic
Age.
Greeks colonise in the Mediterranean area.
Rise of the 'polis' - city state.
753 - 683BC
Athens is ruled/governed by non-hereditary decennial (ten
year) Archons.
683 - 508BC
Athens is ruled/governed by annual Archons.
630BC - Athenian black-figure pottery begins.
621BC
Laws of Drakon.
The first written constitution of Athens.
594BC
Reforms of Solon.
One on the Seven
Greek Sages.
546BC
Peisistratos
controls Athens as tyrant/dictator.
He is credited with creating loans for poorer citizens.
530BC - Athenian red-figure pottery begins.
510BC
Overthrow of Hippias
(son of Peisistratos).
Events relating to his overthrow precede the Ionian revolt.
508BC - Reforms of Cleisthenes.
Athenian
democracy is introduced.
499BC
Outbreak of the Ionian
revolt.
This marking the beginning of the Greco-Persian
Wars.
493BC
Themistocles
is elected first Archon.
He is Archon during the Persian Wars.
490BC
Seaborne invasion of Aegean by the Persians
under Darius.
Battle
of Marathon.
480BC
Invasion of Greece by the Persians under Xerxes.
Evacuation and sack of Athens.
The Persian navy is defeated at the Battle
of Salamis.
479BC
Defeat of Persian army at Plataea.
Defeat of Persian navy at Mykale.
Themistocleian Walls begun - walls that surrounded the majority of
Athens rather than just the Acropolis.
478-339BC
Classical
Age
Greek city states become the centre of the civilised world.
478BC - Establishment of the Delian League.
462BC - Democratic reforms of Ephialtes.
461-451BC
First war with Peloponnesian
League.
The
Peloponnesian wars.
454BC - Athens aids an Egyptian revolt against Persia.
451BC - Athens makes peace with Sparta, and wages war with Persia.
450BC
Pericles.
His dominance of Athenian politics begins.
Map
of Athens and its Allies 450BC.
Battle
of Salamis.
Athenians defeat the Persian fleet, and land forces.
The 'Peace
of Callias' - marking the end of the Greco-Persian wars.
447BC - Construction of Parthenon
and Hephaisteion
begins.
445BC - Long Walls (from city to port) completed.
437BC - Construction of Propylaea (gateway to the Acropolis) begins.
431BC
The
Archidamian War.
Refers to the first phase of the Peloponnesian wars.
Map
of Athens and its allies 431BC.
429BC - Death of Pericles.
427BC - Construction of Temple of Athena Nike begins.
421BC
Peace
of Nicias.
Erechtheion begun.
415BC - Sicilian expedition launched.
411BC - Athenian
coup, after which the Four Hundred seize power.
404BC
Surrender of Athens to Sparta marking the end of the Peloponnesian war.
Destruction of the Long Walls.
Rule of the Thirty
Tyrants.
403BC - Restoration of democracy.
399BC - Death of Socrates.
395-393BC
Rebuilding of the Long Walls.
Konon
(Athenian general) supplies funds for this project.
387BC - Second Athenian League established.
386BC - Plato founds the Academy.
351BC - Demosthenes begins a campaign against Philip II of Macedon.
347 - 345BC
Peace
of Philocrates - a treaty between Athens and Macedon.
339-168BC
The Hellenistic Age.
The empires of the Macedonian kings.
338BC
Battle of Chaeronea 1
2.
Alexander visits Athens.
Lycourgos begins major infrastructure construction programme -
including the Panathenaic Stadium.
335BC - Aristotle (1 2) founds the Lyceum.
334BC - Alexander of Macedon (1 2) sets out to conquer Asia.
330BC - Completion of the Panathenaic
Stadium (remade in marble),
and the new Theatre of Dionysos.
323BC
Death of Alexander the Great.
Athens participates in revolt against Macedonian rule.
Aristotle faces anti Macedonian reaction in Athens.
322BC
Lamian
War.
Antipater
occupies Athens.
Democracy suppressed.
317BC - Kassander, King of Macedon, installs Demetrios of Phaleron as governor of Athens.
307BC
Athens occupied by Dimitrios
Poliorcetes.
Epicurus (1
2) founds
philosophical school.
267-262BC
Ptolemy (1
2)
supports revolt against Macedon.
Athens taken by Antigonous
Gonatas, King of Macedon.
229BC - Macedonian garrison withdrawn.
200-197BC
Philip V of
Macedon invades Greece.
Athens seeks aid from both Rome and Pergamon.
197BC - Construction of Stoa of Eumenes II of Pergamon begins.
175BC - Seleucid king Antiochus IV begins completion of Peisistratos� Olympeion.
159BC - Construction of Stoa of Attalos II of Pergamon begins.
168-330BC
Roman
Age.
Greece under Roman rule.
146BC - Romans annex Greece.
133BC - Slave revolt in Laurion.
88BC - The Athenians join revolt against Roman rule led by Mithridates VI, King of Pontos.
86BC
Sulla
sacks Athens.
The 'tyrant' Aristion
deposed.
Resumption of Roman rule.
47BC - Julius Caesar begins construction of Roman agora.
31-30BC
Octavian
and Agrippa
visit Athens.
15BC
Agrippa builds Odeion
in agora.
54AD - Saint Paul visits Athens.
114AD - Construction of Monument of Philopappos on Mouseion Hill.
124AD
Hadrian
begins a building programme.
The Emporer is initiated into the Eleusinian
Mysteries.
130AD - Hadrian constructs Library.
131AD - Hadrian completes the Olympeion.
135AD - Hadrian constructs Olympeion and new suburb.
140AD
Antoninus
Pius completes the construction of the water supply system.
Herod of Athens(Atticus) funds the renovation of the Panathenaic
Stadium.
160AD - Herod Atticus funds construction of the Odeion.
177AD - Death of Herodes Atticus.
253AD - Valerian begins reconstruction of defensive walls.
267AD - Herulians plunder Athens.
274AD - Valerian Wall built.
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Dionysus
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During the classical period, Athens had a population of
300000, and an adult male population of 60000.
Political deveopment 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Trade 1
Social stratification 1 2 3 4 5
Arts and Culture 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Cultural comparison 1 2 3 4 5 6
Irrigation and water management 1 2 3
Waterways 1
Bridge building
City utilities 1
Geography and Cartography 1
Technology and Inventions 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
This page only covers Athens through to the Roman period.
