Early Archaic Period c.750-546 BC), Chronology

Greece, Chronology, Early Archaic Period (750-546 BC)

750 Homer (Ionia?)
750 Hoplite phalanx invented
750-700 Late Geometric pottery
750-550 Colonial Expansion
747-657 Bacchiad Dynasty (Corinth)
743-724 First Messenian War (Sparta)
750 Cumae founded (Italy)
734 Naxus founded (Sicily)
733 Corcyra colonised (Ionian Sea)
733 Syracuse founded (Sicily)
730 Zancle founded (Sicily)
730-720 Rhegium founded (Italy)
729 Catana founded (Sicily)
729 Leontini founded (Sicily)
728 Megara Hyblaea founded (Sicily)
725-720 Cumae founded (Italy)
720 Sybaris founded (Italy)
720-620 Orientalizing Period
716 Mylae founded (Sicily)
710-650 Lelantine War (Euboea)
708 Croton founded (Italy)
706 Taras founded (Italy)
700 Eretria colonised Chalcidice
700 Hesiod (Boeotia)
700 Penteconter invented
688 Gela founded (Sicily)
685-668 Second Messenian War (Sparta)
680 Siris founded (Italy)
680-660 Pheidon tyrant of Argos (Argolis)
676 Chalcedon founded (Bosporus)
675 Abydos founded (Hellespont)
669 Battle of Hysiae (Argolis)
664 Sea Battle of Sybota (off Corcyra)
660 Byzantium founded (Bosporus)
657-625 Cypselus tyrant of Corinth
656 Istrus founded (Bulgaria)
654 Abdera founded (Thrace)
650 Caulonia founded (Italy)
650 Metapontum founded (Italy)
650 Thasos colonised (north Aegean)
650-550 Orthagorids (Sicyon)
649 Himera founded (Sicily)
647 Pontic Olbia founded (Ukraine)
640 Theogenes tyrant of Megara
632 Attempted tyranny at Athens by Cylon
632 Megacles archon at Athens
632-404 Alcmaeonidae family (Athens)
631 Sinope founded (Asia Minor)
630 Amorgos founded (Cyclades)
630 Cyrene founded (North Africa)
630 Greek settlement at Naucratis (Egypt)
628 Selinus founded (Sicily)
625 Ambracia founded (Greece)
625 Leucas founded (Ionian Sea)
625-585 Periander tyrant of Corinth
621 Draco archon at Athens
621 First written laws at Athens (Draco)
600 Apollonia Illyrica founded (Illyria)
600 Capua founded (Italy)
600 Massilia (=Marseilles) founded (France)
600 Neopolis founded (Italy)
600 Panticapaeum founded (Crimea)
600 Siege of Smyrna (Ionia)
600-575 Aenus founded (Thrace)
600-570 Cleisthenes tyrant of Sicyon
595-586 First Sacred War (Phocis)
594/3 Solon archon at Athens
594 New law code at Athens (Solon)
590 Thrasybulus tyrant of Miletus
590-353 Aleuadae of Larissa (Thessaly)
582-580 Damasias archon at Athens
580 Acragas founded (Sicily)
580 Battle near Lilybaeum (Sicily)
580-446 Western Greeks
575 Emporion (=Empuries) founded (Spain)
570 Egypt captures Cyprus
570 Battle of Irasa (Libya)
570 Sybaris destroys Siris (Italy)
564 Amisos founded (AM)
561-527 Pisistratus tyrant of Athens
560 Alalia (=Aleria) founded (Corsica)
560 Battle of the Fetters (Arcadia)
560 Heraclea Pontica founded (Black Sea)
559-530 Cyrus II (Persia)
556 Chilon ephor at Sparta
550 Croesus (Lydia) subjugates Ionia
550 Miltiades the Elder in the Chersonese
550 Spartan-Tegean treaty
550-330 Achaemenid Empire (Persia)
546 Battle of Champions (Argolis)

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