I thought this might be a useful aid for those who are not familiar with the events of Sparta. The dates are not fixed and should not be treated as such. The dates will work from the earlier periods to the later periods and I will attempt to include the major events of the other poleis. It is still under construction!!
| SPARTA/LAKONIA/MESSENIA c.1500BCE--Vapheio tombs c.1200--Fall of Mycenaean kingdom of Lakedaimon. Beginning of Dorian invasion (?) 1115(?)--Dorian colonization of Melos and Gortyn from Lakonia 800(?)--Four obes politically united c.750--Capture of Amyklai c.736-716--First Messenian War c.720--Argives capture Asine 706--Founding of Tarentum 676--Reform of Karneia. Great Rhetra. 669--Spartan defeat at Hysiai 668--First Gymnopaidai 659--Spartan capture of Phigaleia 657(?)--Spartan capture of Hira in Tyrtaios' war c.600--Conquest of Pylos and Mothone 560-550--Spartan war with Tegea; alliance between Anaaxandrdides and Ariston 556--Khilon first ephor 546--Battle of Champions(w/ Argos) 519--Kleomenes at Plataiai c.505--Development of Peloponnesian League c.494--Battle of Sepeia 490--Death of Kleomenes 480--Battle of Thermopylae 461-446--First Peloponnesian War 431-404--Second Peloponnesian War 404-371--Spartan Hegemony 401-400--Expedition of the '10,000' to Asia 371--Battle of Leuktra 244-241--Agis IV King of Sparta 235-222--Kleomenes III king at Sparta | THE REST OF GREECE 3000BCE--Beginnings of Minoan culture in Crete 1150--Destruction of Mycenae 1050-950--Ionian migration; colonization of Asia Minor 1050--Iron Age in Greece 850-730--Athens as leading cultural center in Greece Foundation of emporion in Al Mina 776--First Olympic Games 750-700--Invention and diffusion of Greek Alphabet 734-680--Lelantine War 700--Homer and Hesiod 700-650--Advent of hoplite tactics c.620--The reforms of Drakon c.600--Development of trireme 595--earliest Greek coinage at Aegina c.594/3--Solon archon at Athens 561--Peisistratos' first tyranny at Athens 510--Expulsion of Hippias(Peisistratids) from Athens 499--Ionian revolt from Persia 490--Battle of Marathon 480--Battles of Artemisium, Thermopylae, Salamis and Himera 479--Battles of Plataia and Mykale 449--Peace of Kallias 461-446--First Peloponnesian War 431-404--Second Peloponnesian War 421--Peace of Nikias 395-386--Corinthian War 386--King's Peace 371--Theban ascendancy with the Battle of Leuktra 338--Battle of Chaeronea 336--Alexander the Great 223--Antigonus III invades the Peloponnese 196--Rome declares Gk. independence 194--Rome evacuates Greece |
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