| 546 Battle of Pallene (Attica) |
| 546 Siege of Sardis (Lydia) |
| 546 Cyrus II captures Sardis (Lydia) |
| 546-511 Advance of Persia |
| 546-371 Peloponnesian League |
| 545-524 Lygdamis tyrant of Naxos |
| 540 Siege of Phocaea (Ionia) |
| 538-522 Polycrates tyrant of Samos |
| 537 Sea Battle off Alalia (Corsica) |
| 535 Dicaearchia founded (Italy) |
| 535 Elea (=Velia) founded (Italy) |
| 530-522 Cambyses II (Persia) |
| 525 Persians capture Cyprus |
| 525 Spartan expedition to Samos |
| 525 Trireme invented |
| 525/4 Cleisthenes archon at Athens |
| 524 Battle of Cumae (Italy) |
| 524/3 Miltiades the Younger archon Athens |
| 522 Bardiya (Persia) |
| 522-486 Darius I (Persia) |
| 520-490 Cleomenes I (Sparta) |
| 519 Athens-Plataea alliance |
| 517 Persians invade Samos |
| 516 Miltiades the Younger in Chersonese |
| 515 Scylax (Gr) sailed down the Indus River |
| 514 Darius I crossed the Hellespont |
| 514 Hipparchus murdered at Athens |
| 513 Darius I’s Scythian campaign |
| 510 Croton destroys Sybaris (Italy) |
| 510 Battle at Eryx (Sicily) |
| 510 Hippias expelled from Athens |
| 508/7 Isagoras archon at Athens |
| 508 Reforms of Cleisthenes at Athens |
| 506 Cleomenes (Sparta) invades Attica |
| 506-490 Heraldless War (Aegina) |
| 505 Battle of Aricia (Italy) |
| 505-498 Cleander tyrant at Gela (Sicily) |
| 500s-00-100s Delphic Amphictyony |
| 499 Siege of Naxos (Cyclades) |
| 499-449 Persian Wars |
| 499-494 Ionian revolt (Asia Minor) |
| 498 Athenians/Eretrians burn Sardis (AM) |
| 498 Battle of Ephesus (Asia Minor) |
| 497 Battle of Salamis (Cyprus) |
| 496 Siege of Soli (Cyprus) |
| 496 Battle of Lake Regillus (Italy) |
| 496/5 Hipparchus archon at Athens |
| 494 Sea Battle of Lade (Asia Minor) |
| 494 Siege/sack of Miletus (Ionia) |
| 494 Battle of Sepeia (Argolis) |
| 493/2 Themistocles archon at Athens |
| 493 Athens’ port Piraeus fortified |
| 492 Battle Helorus River (Sicily) |
| 492 Mardonius (Persia) invades Europe |
| 490 Siege of Eretria (Euboea) |
| 490 Zancle (Sicily) falls to Anaxilas |
| 490.08/09 Battle of Marathon (Attica) |
| 489 Miltiades invades Paros (Aegean) |
| 489/8 Aristides the Just archon at Athens |
| 488-473 Theron tyrant of Acragas (Sicily) |
| 487 Egypt revolts against Persia |
| 487 First Ostracism at Athens (Hipparchus) |
| 487-481 War between Athens and Aegina |
| 486-465 Xerxes I (Persia) |
| 485-478 Gelon I tyrant of Syracuse (Sicily) |
| 485-465 Deinomenid Dynasty (Syracuse) |
| 484-425 Herodotus (Halicarnassus, Caria) |
| 483 Silver discovered at Laurium, Attica |
| 483 Theron captures Himera (Sicily) |
| 481 Greeks form league against Persia |
| 480.08/09 Battle of Artemisium (Euboea) |
| 480.08/09 Battle of Thermopylae (Thessaly) |
| 480.09 Sea Battle of Salamis (Saronic Gulf) |
| 480 09 Athens sacked by the Persians |
| 480 Artabazus (1) besieged Potidaea and Olynthus (Chalcidice) |
| 480-307 Sicilian Wars |
| 480 First Sicilian War (v. Carthage) |
| 480.09 Battle of Himera (north Sicily) |
| 479 Mardonius plundered Athens (Attica) |
| 479.08 Battle of Plataea (Boeotia) |
| 479.08 Battle of Mycale (Ionia) |
| 479/8 Siege of Sestus (Chersonese) |
| 479/8 Xanthippus archon at Athens |
Late Archaic Period (546-479 BC), Chronology
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