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This is a timeline of Ancient Greece from 800 BC to 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages and Aegean civilizations. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece.

Created by StevePro on Mar 24, 2011

Last updated: 03/24/11 at 04:56 PM

• Polydorus sends colonists to Italy
  734 BC

  Polydorus sends colonists to Italy.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_ancient_Greece

• Perdiccas I of Macedon flees
  735 BC

  Perdiccas I of Macedon flees from Argos to Macedonia and conquers the land.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdiccas_I_of_Macedon

• Messenian War Ends
  738 BC

  Alternate date for the end of the first Messenian war.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenia

• Polydorus becomes king of Sparta
  754 BC

  Polydorus was the only son of Cadmus and Harmonia and king of Thebes. Upon his father's death, Pentheus, the son of his sister Agave and Echion, one of the Spartoi, ruled Thebes. Pentheus, however, ruled only for a short time, before Dionysus caused his mother to tear him limb from limb.[1] Polydorus succeeded him, marrying Nycteis, the daughter of Nycteus. When their son Labdacus was still young, Polydorus died of unknown causes, leaving Nycteus as his regent.[2] In Pausanias' history, Polydorus' rule began when his father abdicated, but this is the only source for such a timeline.[3]
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_ancient_Greece

• First Messenian War Begins
  757 BC

  The first Messenian war starts. (date disputed by Jerome, Pausanias and Diodorus; this estimate is based on a reading of Diodorus' Spartan king lists and Pausanias' description of the war)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenia

• First Olympic Games
  776 BC

  Traditional date for the first historic Olympic games.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_Games