| 2900 BC | 2900-2000 BC: The Bronze Age when Early Aegean cultures start to emerge |
| 2500 BC | The great Minoan civilization |
| 1200 BC | The Trojan War and the destruction of Troy (Ilium) |
| 1050 BC | 1050-750 BC: The Dark Ages of Greece and the fall of the Mycenean culture |
| 850 BC | 850 - 700 BC: Development of the first Greek Alphabet |
| 776 BC | The First Olympic Games are staged |
| 750 BC | 750 -700 BC: Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| 730 BC | 730-710 BC - the First Messenian War and the Spartans conquer southwest Peloponnesia |
| 650 BC | The Rise of the Greek tyrants |
| 621 BC | Draco's code of law is introduced |
| 600 BC | Greek Coin currency introduced |
| 500 BC | 500-323 BC - The Greek Classical Period |
| 505 BC | Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens |
| 490 BC | Greek / Persian Wars led by Xerxes |
| 468 BC | Sophocles writes his first tragedy |
| 461 BC | 461-446 BC: The Peloponnesian Wars begins between Sparta and Athens |
| 449 BC | 449 -432: Construction of the Parthenon and the Acropolis in Athens |
| 441 BC | Euripides writes his first tragedy |
| 443 BC | 443 - 429 BC Pericles leads Athens |
| 430 BC | Outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Athens |
| 431 BC | Second of the Peloponnesian Wars between Sparta and Athens |
| 420 BC | 420 - 410: Construction of Temple of Athena Nike |
| 399 BC | Socrates is executed for his opposition to the Thirty Tyrants |
| 386 BC | Plato founds the Academy |
| 384 BC | Aristotle is born |
| 359 BC | Philip II becomes the king of the Greeks |
| 356 BC | Alexander the Great, son of King Philip II, is born |
| 333 BC | Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at Issus and is given Egypt by the Persian Satrap where he builds a capital at Alexandria and founds the great library
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| 323 BC | Alexander the Great dies at Babylon |
| 323 BC | 323 -31 BC: The Hellenistic Period |
| 224 BC | Earthquake destroys the Colossus of Rhodes |
| 200 BC | 200 - 196 BC: First Roman victory over Greece |
| 197 BC | King Philip V of Greece loses to Roman forces at Kynoskephalai |
| 86 BC | The Roman General Sulla captures Athens |
| 33 AD | Crucifixion of Jesus and the origin of Christianity |
| 267 AD | The Goths sack Athens, Sparta, and Corinth |
| 286 AD | The Roman Emperor Diocletian divides the Roman empire in two forming modern Greece (the Byzantine Empire)
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| 641 AD | The Slavs overrun Greece |
