Timeline Ancient Greece
2025-02-05
| MAINLAND | CRETE | CYCLADES | BC | |||
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Aceramic Neolithic (6800-6500) | 6800-6700 | Seafaring and trade in the Aegean | |||
| 6700-6600 | Construction of simple huts | |||||
| 6600-6500 | ||||||
| Early Neolithic (6500-5800) | 6500-6400 | Fired pottery | ||||
| 6400-6300 | Domesticated cattle | |||||
| 6300-6200 | ||||||
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| 6000-5900 | ||||||
| 5900-5800 | Cultivated plants | |||||
| Middle Neolithic (5800-5300) | 5800-5700 | Settlement and megaron-type building at Sesklo | ||||
| 5700-5600 | ||||||
| 5600-5500 | ||||||
| 5500-5400 | ||||||
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| Late Neolithic (5300-4500) | 5300-5200 | First fortifications at Dimini and Sesklo | ||||
| 5200-5100 | ||||||
| 5100-5000 | ||||||
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| Final Neolithic (4500-3100) | 4500-4400 | |||||
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| 4300-4200 | ||||||
| 4200-4100 | ||||||
| 4100-4000 | ||||||
| 4000-3900 | ||||||
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| 3200-3100 | ||||||
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Early Helladic I (3100-2700) | Early Minoan I (3100-2650) | Pre-palatial Period (3100-1925) | Early Cycladic I (Grotta-Pelos, 3100-2700) | 3100-3000 | Marble figurines from the Cyclades |
| 3000-2900 | ||||||
| 2900-2800 | ||||||
| 2800-2700 | ||||||
| Early Helladic II (2700-2200) | Early Minoan II (2650-2220 | Early Cycladic II (Keros-Syros, 2700-2200) | 2700-2600 | "Corridor Houses" on the mainland, Minoan sealstones and stone vases | ||
| 2600-2500 | ||||||
| 2500-2400 | ||||||
| 2400-2300 | ||||||
| 2300-2200 | ||||||
| Early Helladic III (2200-2000) | Early Minoan III | Early Cycladic III (2200-2000) | 2200-2100 | |||
| Middle Minoan I (2100-1850) | 2100-2000 | Settlements on hilltops, often fortified (mainland); peak sanctuaries (Crete) | ||||
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Middle Helladic I | Protopalatial / Old Palace Period | Middle Cycladic I (2000-1800) | 2000-1900 | First palaces at Knossos and Phaistos | |
| Middle Helladic II (1900-1700) | Middle Minoan II | 1900-1800 | Writings in Linear A | |||
| MM III | Neopalatial / New Palace Period (1750-1490) | MC II | 1800-1700 | Destruction of Minoan palaces (1700); rebuilding | ||
| MH III | Late Minoan I (1675-1470) | MC III | 1700-1600 | Eruption of Thera vulcano (1675) | ||
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Late Helladic I | Late Cycladic I | 1600-1500 | Beginning of Mycenaean civilization (1600) | ||
| Late Helladic II | Late Minoan II | Postpalatial Period (1490-1075) | Late Cycladic II | 1500-1400 | Collapse of Minoan civilization (1490); Mycenaean occupation of Crete | |
| Late Helladic III (1420-1075) | Late Minoan III (1420-1075) | Late Cycladic III (1350-1000) | 1400-1300 | Linear B; Knossos destroyed (1375); Mycenae and Tiryns fortified | ||
| 1300-1200 | Destruction of Troy VIIa (1250) | |||||
| 1200-1100 | Destruction of Mycenaean palaces (1200); Dorian invasion (1200-1100) | |||||
| 1100-1000 | End of Mycenaean civilization (1000) | |||||
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Submycenaean / Protogeometric Period (Dark Age, 1050-700) | Subminoan Period (Dark Age, 1075-700) | Dark Age (1050-700) | 1000-900 | ||
| 900-800 | Greek alphabet | |||||
| 800-700 | "Iliad" and "Odyssey"; Olympic Games (776); Colonies in Southern Italy, Sicily | |||||
| Archaic Period (700-480) | 700-600 | Hesiod; Monarchy in Athens replaced by Council of Areopagus; laws by Drakon | ||||
| 600-500 | First Sacred War; Pythian and Isthmian games; Solon; Peloponnesean League | |||||
| 500-400 | Persian wars; Sophokles; Sokrates; Perikles; Peloponnesian war; Plato | |||||
| Classical Period (480-323) | 400-300 | Aristotle (384-322); Alexander the Great (356-323) | ||||
| Hellenistic Period (323-31) | 300-200 | Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212) | ||||
| 200-100 | Romans conquer Macedonia (148); Romans conquer Greek city-states (133) | |||||
| 100-0 | Caesar assassinated (44); Augustus becomes Roman Emperor (31) | |||||