Chronology, Ancient Greece, Early Classical Period (479-446 BC)

Greece, Chronology: Early Classical Period (479-446 BC)

479-461 Age of Cimon (Athens)
478 Pausanias (Sparta) captures Byzantium
478-467 Hieron I tyrant of Syracuse (Sicily)
478-454 Delian League (Athens)
475 Cimon captures Eion on the Strymon
475 Cimon captures Scyros (island, Sporades archipelago)
474 Sea Battle of Cumae (Italy)
473 Battle of Tegea (Arcadia)
472 Carystus forced to join Delian League
471 Battle of Dipaea (Arcadia)
471 Themistocles ostracized
470-167 Molossian Dynasty (Epirus)
469 Siege of Naxos (Cyclades)
469 Naxos forced to join Delian League
469-399 Socrates (Athens)
467 Sea Battle of Eurymedon (Pamphylia)
465-463 Revolt of Thasos (Aegean)
465-455 Siege of Ithome
465-424 Artaxerxes I Macrocheir (Persia)
464 Battle of Drabescus (Thrace)
464 Earthquake (Sparta)
464 Battle of Ithome (Messenia)
464-455 Third Messenian War (Sparta)
463 Battle of Thasos (island, north Aegean)
461 Cimon ostracized
461 Reforms of Ephialtes (Athens)
461-429 Age of Pericles (Athens)
460 Battle at Catana (Sicily)
460 Battle of Oenoe (Attica)
460-446 FIRST PELOPONNESIAN WAR
460-445 Teres I (Thrace)
460-00-46 Odrysian kingdom (Thrace)
460-395 Thucydides (historian, Athens)
459 Sea Battle at Cecryphalea (island, Aegina)
459 Battle at Halieis (Argolis)
459 Battle of Papremis (Egypt)
458 Sea Battle of Aegina (island, Aegina)
458-447 Building of the Long Walls at Athens
458 Battle of Megara (Megaris)
458/7 Siege of Aegina (island, Aegina)
458/7 or 454/3 Athens-Segesta alliance
457 Long Walls completed (Athens)
457 Battle of Tanagra (Boeotia)
457 Battle of Oenophyta (Boeotia)
456 Tolmides’ naval campaign (Peloponnese)
455 Helots received at Naupactus (Locris)
455 Siege of Memphis (Egypt)
455 Myronides’ expedition to Thessaly
455 Siege of Oeniadae (Acarnania)
455/4 Siege of Prosopitis (Egypt)
454-413 Perdiccas II (Macedonia)
454 Pericles’ expedition to Acarnania
454 Pay for jurymen introduced (Athens)
454 Treasury transferred to Athens
454/3 Athens-Leontini, Rhegium alliances
454/3 Athens-Halicyae alliance
454-404 Athenian Empire
453 Battle at Elba (Italy)
451 Athena-Sparta five-year truce
451 Pericles introduces citizenship law
451 Battle at Motyum (Sicily)
451 Sparta-Argos thirty-year truce
450 Siege of Citium (Cyprus)
450 Naxos (Cyclades) Athenian cleruchy
450 Battle at Nomae (Sicily)
450 Battle of Salamis (Cyprus)
450-413 Demosthenes (1) (general, Athens)
449 Peace of Callias (Athens/Persia)
449-448 Second Sacred War (Phocis)
447 Battle of Coronea (Boeotia)
447 Work on Parthenon began (Athens)
446 Brea founded (Thrace)
446 Revolt of Euboea (Central Greece)
446 Battle of Himera River (south Sicily)
446 Thirty Years’ Treaty (Athens/Sparta)

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