History/Classics 310
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Themistocles
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Early Sparta and Athens
514-482 B.C.
Pentekontaeteia,
479-431 B.C.
Peloponnesian War
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| c. 1200 B.C. | Collapse of Bronze Age Sparta | |
| Arrival of First Dorians in Laconia | ||
| c. 800 B.C.? | Political Unification of Four Obes of Sparta | |
| 775-750 B.C. | Traditional date for Lycurgus | |
| 754 B.C. | First ephor recorded | |
| 736-716 B.C. | FIRST MESSENIAN WAR | |
| c. 720-670 B.C. | Reign of Theopompus (Eurypontid) | |
| 706 B.C. | Conspiracy of the Partheniai | |
| Colonization of Taras (Tarentum) | ||
| c. 700-665 B.C. | Reign of Polydorus (Agiad) | |
| 676 B.C. | Great Rhetra: Political Reforms in Sparta | |
| 669 B.C. | Battle of Hysiae | |
| 668-657 B.C. | SECOND MESSENIAN WAR | |
| c. 650 B.C.? | Invention of coinage in Lydia | |
| c. 620-600 B.C. | Aegina mints first silver staters | |
| 600 B.C. | Spartans reduce Pylos and Methone | |
| 600-580 B.C. | Increasing austerity reflected in excavations of the temple of Artemis Orthia | |
| c. 580-565 B.C. | Battle of Fetters: Spartan defeat at Tegea | |
| Tegean-Spartan Alliance: Origin of Peloponnesian League | ||
| 556 B.C. | Chilon as ephor | |
| 545 B.C. | Battle of Champions: Sparta defeats Argos Spartan Annexation of Cynuria |
| 1088 B.C. | Death of Codrus, last king of Athens | |
| Archonship for life: Aristocratic Government | ||
| 752/1 B.C. | Archonship made ten year office | |
| c. 700 B.C. | Final Political Unification of Athens | |
| 682/1 B.C. | Archonship made annual office | |
| 632 B.C. | Attempted coup of Cylon | |
| 621 B.C. | Law Code of Draco | |
| c. 600 B.C. | Athens conquers Salamis from Aegina. Athenian colony at Sigeum in Troad. Black Figure Ware commences | |
| 594/3 B.C. | Archonship of Solon: Political and Economic Reforms | |
| 590/89 & | Anarchia: Political turmoil | |
| 586/5 B.C. | ||
| 582/1 B.C. | Archonship of Damasias. New Political Strife (581-79 B.C.) | |
| c. 570 B.C. | Athenian-Megarian War | |
| First Archaic Sculpture (Calf-bearer). Earliest pediments of Temple of Athena. First Masterpieces of Black Figure Ware | ||
| 566/5 B.C. | Inauguration of Panathenea. Construction of first Propylaea and Altar of Athena Nike on Acropolis | |
| 561/0 B.C. | First Tyranny of Peisistratus | |
| c. 560 B.C.? | First Coinage in Athens. Dominance of Black Figure Ware | |
| 556/5 B.C. | Second Tyranny of Peisistratus | |
| 546/5 B.C. | Battle of Pallene. Third Tyranny of Peisistratus | |
| 536 B.C. | Thespis first at first dramatic festival of Great Dionysia | |
| c. 530 B.C. | Striking first "owl" tetradrachmae. Reconstruction of "Old Temple" of Athena on Acropolis & pediments of Gigantomachy. Climax of Black Figure Ware. | |
| 528/7 B.C. | Death of Peisistratus. Succession of Hippias & Hipparchus | |
| 525-500 B.C. | Climax of Archaic Sculpture (Rampin Horseman & korai of the Acropolis) | |
| 520/19 B.C. | Alliance of Athens and Plataea | |
| 510 B.C. | Overthrow of Hippias: End of Tyranny | |
| 508/7 B.C. | Archonship of Isagoras. Cleisthenic Revolution and Establishment of the Democracy |
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