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This is a timeline of ancient Greece from its emergence around 800 BC to its subjection to the Roman Empire in 146 BC. For earlier times, see Greek Dark Ages, Aegean civilizations and Mycenaean Greece. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece. For modern Greece after 1820, see Timeline of modern Greek history.
The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throughout the ages and as a result, the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes.
1947, 20 January: The deadliest shipwreck of modern Greek history occurs when Himara sinks in the South Evian Gulf, resulting in 391 deaths. It remains unknown if the cause was the bad weather, a mine or sabotage. 1947, 1 April: King George II dies of sudden heart failure in the Palace in Athens.
Prehistoric Greek history Neolithic Greece; Aegean Bronze Age; Helladic chronology. Eutresis culture; Korakou culture; Mycenaean Greece; Late Bronze Age collapse. Dorian invasion; Greek Dark Ages. Iron Age Greek migrations; History of ancient Greece Archaic Greece. Greek colonisation; Rise of the polis; Greco-Persian Wars. Siege of Naxos (499 ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
Ioannis Kapodistrias. On his arrival, Kapodistrias launched a major reform and modernisation programme that covered all areas. He re-established military unity by bringing an end to the second phase of the civil war; re-organised the military, which was then able to reconquer territory lost to the Ottoman military during the civil wars; [8] and introduced the first modern quarantine system in ...
Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (1453–1821) Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (1821–1924) Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (1924–1974)
The Greek Colonization of the Mediterranean & Black Sea. [2] Archaic period of Greece ( - 500 BCE). [2] Homer of Greece writes his Iliad and Odyssey. ( - 700 BCE) [2] Assyrian army makes a use of the new technology by which iron can be hardened into steel suitable for weapons. [3] Earliest surviving sundial is in use in Egypt. [3]