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ca. 3000-1100 B.C.: Bronze Age
ca. 1900-1100: Minoan and Mycenaean Civilizations
1104: "Dorian Invasion"
ca. 1100-875 B.C.: Protogeometric Period ("Dark Age") [Note]
ca. 875-750 B.C.: Geometric Period [Note]
ca. 800: First Temples
776: First Olympics
ca. 750: Introduction of Greek Alphabet
ca. 750-620 B.C.: Orientalizing Period [Note]
Age of Colonization
Late 8th Century: Homeric Epic
ca. 630: Introduction of Attic Black Figure Pottery
ca. 620-480 B.C.: Archaic Period
594: Solon's archonship (Athens)
561-528/7: Tyranny of Pisistratus (Athens)
ca. 530: Introduction of Attic Red Figure pottery
508/7: Establishment of the Athenian Democracy
490: Battle of Marathon
480-479: Battles of Salamis and Plataea
479-323 B.C.: Classical Period
ca. 470: Production of Attic Black Figure Pottery ends
447-432: The Parthenon
431-404: Peloponnesian War
359-336: Philip of Macedon
336-323: Campaigns of Alexander the Great
323-30 B.C.: Hellenistic Period
753 B.C.: Legendary Founding of Rome
753-509 B.C.: The Regal Period (Age of Kings)
509-27 B.C.: The Roman Republic
509-275: Expansion of Roman power throughout Italy; the struggle of the orders
264-146 Expansion of Roman power throughout the Mediterranean; the Punic Wars
133-27: The traumatic final years of the Roman Republic; the Civil Wars
27 B.C.-A.D. 68: The Julio-Claudian Emperors
Augustus (27 B.C.-A.D. 14)
Tiberius (A.D. 14-37)
Caligula (A.D. 37-41)
Claudius (A.D. 41-54)
Nero (A.D. 54-68)
A.D. 68-69: Civil Wars
Galba, Otho, Vitellius
A.D. 69-96: The Flavian Emperors
Vespasian (69-79)
Titus (79-81)
Domitian (81-96)
A.D. 96-180: The Antonine Emperors
Nerva (96-98)
Trajan (98-117)
Hadrian (117-138)
Antoninus Pius (138-161)
Marcus Aurelius (161-180)
A.D. 180-476: The Late Empire
180-192: Commodus
193-211: Septimius Severus
211-217: Caracalla
218-222: Elagabalus
222-235: Severus Alexander
235-284: Age of the Soldier Emperors
284-305: Diocletian
306-337: Constantine The Great
361-363: Julian the Apostate
A.D. 476: Fall of Western Empire
Note: The terms Protogeometric, Geometric, and Orientalizing refer to specific styles of vase painting. They should not be understood to indicate anything specific about Greek society or culture in these periods. [Return to text]
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