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Ancient Athens Timeline
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Athenians
End of the Dark Ages
Establishment of Democracy
Golden Age of Athens
Battle of Salamis
Peloponnesian War
Sicilian Expedition
Around the time in which polis started to develop.
Athens had a growth in intellectual and artistic learning from 477 to 431 B.C.
Democracy was formally introduced by Cleisthenes. He organized citizens in 10 groups by where they live. He increased the power of assembly by allowing all citizens to submit laws for debate and passage.
Persia invades Greece... again. Xerxes, the son of Darius the Great, assembled an enormous invasion to crush Athens. Xerxes was defeated by the Greeks.
Athens sent a huge fleet of soldiers to the city-state of Syracuse in Sicily. This attack failed disastrously, with the destruction of the entire force, in 413 B.C.
Sparta declared war on Athens, therefore starting the Peloponnesian War. This war was fought by the Athenian empire against the Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta from 431 to 404 B.C. The Spartans defeated Athens victoriously. This date also marks the end of the Golden Age for Athens.
490 B.C.
479 B.C.
621 B.C.
460 B.C.
421 B.C.
404 B.C.
750 B.C.
508 B.C.
480 B.C.
477 B.C.
431 B.C.
415 B.C.
First Step to Democracy
Marathon
Battle of Plataea
The First Peloponnesian War
Peace of Nicias
End of the Peloponnesian War
Draco developed a legal code based on all of the Athenians so that the rich and poor were equal under law. Death was the punishment for the majority of the laws created.
The Spartans and the Athenians led the Greek army, or "Hellenic League", in the defeat of the Persians, led by Xerxes.
A fleet of 25,000 Persians carried across the Aegean Sea and landed northeast of Athens on a plain called Marathon, while a fleet of 10,000 Athenians in phalanx formation waited. Athens defeated the Persians in Marathon, losing fewer than 200 men, while the Persians lost approximately 6000.
This war between the Athenians (Delian League) and Spartans (Peloponnesian) was fought from 460 to 445 B.C. The war ended in a peace treaty signed by both Spartans and Athenians called the "Thirty Year's Peace".
After another nine years of fighting, Sparta defeated Athens with one final naval battle and the Athenians surrendered, sparing their empire destruction. This also ended the Athenian empire.
In the firt phase of the Peloponnesian war, also called the Archidamian War, Sparta launched invasions on Attica, while Athens raided the coast of Peloponnese to suppress signs of unrest in its empire. Sparta and Athens, both being worn down from the war, signed this truce.