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6000 BCE - 5000 BCE: First inhabitation of the Nemean valley.
5000 BCE: Earliest Neolithic finds in the Corinth area.
3000 BCE: First settlement at Tiryns.
3000 BCE - 2000 BCE: First inhabitation of Mycenae area.
2100 BCE: First evidence of building structures at Mycenae.
2000 BCE: Early Greeks settle the Peloponnese.
1600 BCE: First construction stages of the Tiryns citadel.
1550 BCE: Gold death masks (including that of 'Agamemnon') made at Mycenae.
1500 BCE - 1200 BCE: Mycenae at its peak of influence.
1500 BCE - 1400 BCE: First palace structure and Treasury of Atreus tomb built at Mycenae.
1500 BCE - 1200 BCE: The Linear B script of the Mycenaean civilization is in use.
1450 BCE: Mycenaen influence extended to Knossos, Crete.
1400 BCE - 1300 BCE: Mycenaean palace architecture at Tiryns.
1400 BCE - 1300 BCE: Mycenaean fortifications, palaces and tombs constructed at Argos.
1400 BCE - 1100 BCE: Culture in the Cyclades is increasingly influenced by the Mycenaean civilization of mainland Greece.
1300 BCE - 1200 BCE: Mycenaean Tiryns is at the height of its importance.
1300 BCE: First palace destroyed at Mycenae and repaired, Lion Gate added and fortifications extended.
1200 BCE: Earthquake severely damages Tiryns.
1200 BCE: Second palace destroyed at Mycenae, city begins to decline.
1200 BCE - 1100 BCE: Argos takes over from Mycenae as most important regional power in the Argolid.
900 BCE: Sparta is founded.
700 BCE - 600 BCE: King Phiedon leads Argos to its greatest expansion.
700 BCE: Corinthians adopt the trireme from the Phoenicians.
700 BCE: Sparta, Argos and Paros hold the first documented musical competitions in Greece.
657 BCE - 585 BCE: The Kypselidai are tyrants of Corinth.
650 BCE: Sparta crushes Messenian revolt.
627 BCE - 587 BCE: Periander is tyrant at Corinth.
625 BCE: Black-figure pottery created in Corinth.
600 BCE - 700 BCE: Tiryns becomes a cult centre for the worship of Hera, Athena, and Herakles.
585 BCE: An oligarchy of 80 takes power at Corinth.
580 BCE: First athletic games at Isthmia.
580 BCE: The kouroi of Argos, thought to represent Cleobis & Biton, are sculpted.
573 BCE: First athletic games at Nemea in honour of Zeus.
550 BCE - 366 BCE: Peloponnesian League alliance between Sparta, Corinth, Elis and Tegea which establishes Spartan hegemony over the Peloponnese.
550 BCE: The temple of Apollo is constructed at Corinth.
545 BCE: Sparta takes control of Thyrea from Argos.
494 BCE - 493 BCE: Spartan forces under Cleomenes I attack the city of Argos.
494 BCE - 493 BCE: Telesilla of Argos defends her city against the Spartan forces with an army of women.
490 BCE: Leonidas beomes one of Sparta's two kings.
478 BCE: Sparta withdraws from alliance against Persia.
468 BCE: Tiryns is destroyed by the Argeians.
468 BCE: Argeians destroy citadel of Mycenae.
460 BCE - 445 BCE: First Peloponnesian War.
451 BCE: Sparta and Argos sign a peace treaty which endures for the next 30 years.
432 BCE: Sparta declares that Athens has broken the Thirty Year Peace and prepares for war.
431 BCE - 404 BCE: The 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League) which involved all of Greece.
431 BCE - 404 BCE: Thebes sides with Sparta against Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
429 BCE: Peloponnesian forces led by Sparta begin the siege of Plataea.
425 BCE: Pylos campaign, under Cleon and Demosthenes' command Athens defeats Sparta at Pylos.
424 BCE: Spartan general Brasidas takes Amphipolis, Thucydides failed to prevent this and is exiled.
424 BCE: A force of Athenian peltasts defeat Spartan hoplites on Sphaktria in the Peloponnese.
418 BCE: Sparta, led by Agis II, defeats Argos and her allies at the battle of Mantinaea.
415 BCE - 330 BCE: Nemean Games relocated to Argos.
412 BCE: Sparta allies with Persia.
410 BCE: Alcibiades leads the Athenian fleet to victory over Sparta at Cyzicus.
404 BCE: End of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aigospotamoi, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
395 BCE - 386 BCE: The Corinthian Wars between Sparta and an alliance of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Boeotia and Thebes.
390 BCE: Athenian leader Iphikrates employs peltasts to defeat Spartan hoplites at Lechaion near Corinth.
382 BCE - 379 BCE: Sparta establishes a garrison at Thebes.
375 BCE: Thebes defeats Sparta at the Battle of Tegyra.
371 BCE: Thebes, led by Epaminondas, defeats Sparta in the Battle of Leuctra.
362 BCE: Indecisive Battle of Matinea where Thebes fought against Sparta and Athens. Theban general Epaminondas is killed.
338 BCE: Philip of Macedonia defeats the Greek allied forces of Athens, Thebes and Corinth in the Battle of Chaironeia.
330 BCE: Athletic Games return from Argos to Nemea.
330 BCE: Temple of Zeus built at Nemea.
330 BCE - 300 BCE: Extensive building programme at Nemea funded by the Macedonians.
280 BCE: Founding of the Achaean League in the Peloponnese of Greece.
269 BCE: Nemean Games definitively moved to Argos.
243 BCE: Corinth joins the Archaean League.
235 BCE: Megelopolis joins the Achaean League.
225 BCE: Macedonians bring an army across the Isthmus to face another Achaian force trying to take Corinth.
222 BCE: The Achaean League and Antigonos III of Macedon defeat Sparta at Sellasia.
191 BCE: The Achaean League signs a treaty of alliance with Rome.
146 BCE: Rome sacks Corinth and dissolves the Achaean league. Greece is ruled by Rome.
146 BCE: Open war breaks out between Rome and the Achaean League.
44 BCE: Julius Caesar founds the Roman colony of Corinth.
67 CE: Under Nero excavation of the Corinth Canal begins but is abandoned after three months.
267 CE: The Goths sack Athens, Corinth, Sparta, and Argos.
393 CE: Roman Emperor Theodosius definitively ends all pagan Games in Greece.
396 CE: Corinth burned by the Visigoths under Alaric.