Gela Timeline

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c. 689 BCE

Rhodes and Cretans found Gela in Sicily.
c. 580 BCE

Agrigento in Sicily is founded by colonists from Gela, Crete and Rhodes.
491 BCE - 478 BCE

Reign of Gelon, tyrant of Gela on Sicily.
456 BCE

Aeschylus dies in Gela, Sicily.
406 BCE

A Carthaginian army sacks Gela on Sicily.
339 BCE

Gela on Sicily is rebuilt by the Corinthian general Timoleon.
282 BCE

Gela, on Sicily, is destroyed by Phintias, the tyrant of Agrigento.