| 6000's | Neolithic cultures in Thessaly | |
| 5000's | Foods from Greece spread to Balkans, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia then
Europe along the Danube Earliest Neolithic settlement in Crete |
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| 4000 | High Bronze Age began in Knossos, Crete | |
| 3700 | Crete established | |
| 3100 | Minoan civlization in Crete | |
| 3000 | Indo-European people came south from NW Balkans Bronze Age in Aegeans with Asian influence |
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| 2800 | Early Cycladic culture to late ending 1300 BC Early Helladic culture to late ending 100 BC |
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| 2600 bef | Thessalian I culture to IV ending in 1200 BC | |
| 2500 | Early Minoan culture to late ending1100 BC | |
| 2300's | Hieroglyphics used in Crete | |
| 2200 | People speaking Greek came from the north with heavy clothes | |
| 2000 | Citites on Crete were Phaetus and Knossus which had elaborate palaces, storehouses, religious centers. Extensive crafts and trade with Egypt | |
| 1700 | Mycenae in Peloponnesus destroyed by earthquakes | |
| 1600 | Crete palaces were destroyed and rebuilt, maybe civil wars. Linear script began | |
| Crete influences moved to Greece at Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, Sparta, Orchomenus, Athens, creating the Mycenaean culture, princes who were Greek tribal chiefs adopting the advanced Cretan culture, Achaens. | ||
| 1500's | Mycenaeans took control of Minoa, Crete (1400's?) | |
| 1450 | Crete Minoan palaces in Knossos were destroyed and rebuilt due to Greek sea lords or civil wars with the Achaens, almost completely destroyed by fire, replaced with Mycenaean civilization | |
| 1300 | Arcadians had settled in Greece. Acheans in Thessaly invaded by Ionians, Boeotians & Dorians, went to Mycenae, sacked Troy with the Thessalians. | |
| 1275 | Trojan War (1275 to 1240) | |
| 1250 | Crete occupied by mainland Achaens | |
| 1200-1100 | Dorians overan Crete and Greece, bringing the Iron Age and ending the Mycenaean civilization | |
| 1000 | Greeks had been migrating to Anatolia, settling in three areas: Aeolians from Thessaly at Gryneium, Cyme, Mytilene on Lesbos, Magnesia on the Hermus Ionians from Attica and Euboea at Mycale, Phocaea, Colophon, Ephesus. Miletus, and islands of Chios and Samos Dorians from Peloponnese at Cnidus, Halicarnassus, islands of Cos, Rhodes and Crete Mycenaean culture (late Helladic) Iron Age in Greece |
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| 900 | Monarchies were replaced by aristocracies except in Sparta A-62 | |
| 800 bef | Elymians from Spain migrated to Sicily whose original occupants were Sicans replaced by Sicels from south ernItaly | |
| 800 | Homer's writings about Greeks and Troy | |
| Colonization started to combat poor conditions, trade was heavy, slavery increased, King Pheidon of Argos in Lydia introduced a coin to Ionia then Greece | ||
| 776 | First Olympic games, a revival of the legendary games in order to subdue civilian wars | |
| 736 | First Messenian war, Spartus under King Theopompus conquered Messenia | |
| 690 / 696 | Kingdom of Phrygia at Gordion, destroyed by Cimmarians by 685 A-63 | |
| 685 | Kingdom of Lydia took Phrygia's place, Gyges founded the Mermnad Dynasty | |
| 683 | Kingship in Athens abolished, replaced with an annual office A-65 | |
| 652 | Raiding Cimmarians from Russia sacked Sardis and killed Gyges of Lydia | |
| 650 | Second Messenian war, Sparta crushed rebellion from Aristomenes of Arcadia | |
| 640 | Miletus founded trading city of Naucratis on the Nile, friends with Egypt | |
| 621 | Publication of the laws in Athens by Draco | |
| 610 | Sparta formed the Eunomia military, children from 7 up trained to fight | |
| 600's | Tyrannies and tyrants active, philosophy began at the Milesian School | |
| 600-500 | Macedonia was occupied by Thracians (from 2500 BC?) Joined by Dorians, Eordians, Aegae became the central city |
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| 594 | Solon became Athen's high officer, assigned to better conditions caused by high interest of 18 percent. He freed all slaves and erased all debts, changed Draco's laws except for homicide, a court of citizens and the right to appeal the magistrates. Not all was perfect. A-65 | |
| 590 | First Sacred War A-66 | |
| 585 | May 28th: Thales had predicted the eclipse, when appeared, Alyattes King of Lydia and Cyaraxes King of Media stopped fighting and made peace, boundaries at the river Halys. | |
| 561 | Peisistratus became tyrant of Athens, kicked out, returned, was wealthy from mines in Thrace, succeeded by sons in 527 who ruled to 508 A-66 | |
| 560 | Croesus of Media took Lydian throne | |
| 550 | King Cyrus of Persia took Media by defeating Astyages | |
| 546 | Cyrus sacked Sardis, captured Croesus and Ionian cities except Miletus. | |
| 546 | Sparta took the plains of Argos in The Battle of the 300 Champions, expelled tyrants from Peloponnese | |
| 530 | Pythagorus of the Pythagorean theorem founds the city of Croton, Greece | |
| 520 | Cleomenes I fought against Spartan magistrates but lost, legends of his madness and suicide might conceal his assassination by the magistrates | |
| 508 | Democratic reform in Athens | |
| 499 | Ionians, Athens revolted against early Persian tyrants, Sparta refused
to help Greeks burned Sardis, Darius I of Persia sacked Miletus, ending the revolution A-67 |
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| 492 | Mardonius of Persia to Athens to punish them for the revolt, subdued
Thrace Returned home after his ships were destroyed in a storm at Mt Athos |
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| 490 | Persians returned, Eretria fell but Athens won at the Battle of Marathon Sept 12 | |
| 480 | Persians returned under Xerxes with 180,000 men Persia occupied Attica and destroyed Athens but lost at the Battle of Salamis |
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| 479 | The Battle of Plataea: Greeks took back most territories | |
| 470 | Soccrates was born in Athens (469?) | |
| 467 | Meteorites convince Greeks heavenly bodies were not divine beings after all | |
| 464 | Third Messenian War | |
| 462 | Pericles comes to power in Athens, Greece flowers | |
| 460 | First Peloponnesian War, Persia against the Greeks | |
| 460 | Democritus born in Thrace, first proposed theory of atoms as the basic particle of all matter | |
| 449 | Second Sacred War | |
| 447 | Parthenon is built as temple to goddess Athena in Athens (to 432) | |
| 431 | Spartans finally defeat Athens in Peloponnesian Wars (to 404) | |
| 427 | Plato, real name Aristocles, was born | |
| 336 | Alexander the Great became King of Macedon - see Alexander | |