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800 BCE - 700 BCEHomer's Iliad is composed with mention of medical treatment in Greek warfare.
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800 BCE - 500 BCEGreek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
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c. 700 BCECorinthians adopt the trireme from the Phoenicians.
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660 BCECorcyra wins a naval battle against their founding city of Corinth.
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c. 650 BCESparta crushes Messenian revolt.
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c. 650 BCE - c. 350 BCEHoplites are the major protagonists in Greek land warfare.
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580 BCE - 376 BCECarthage and Greece fight for dominance in Sicily.
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c. 550 BCE - c. 366 BCEPeloponnesian League alliance between Sparta, Corinth, Elis and Tegea which establishes Spartan hegemony over the Peloponnese.
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539 BCEEtruscan & Carthaginian alliance expels the Greeks from Corsica.
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525 BCESparta and Corinth unsuccessfully attack Polycrates of Samos.
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499 BCE - 493 BCEIonian cities rebel against Persian rule.
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494 BCE - 493 BCESpartan forces under Cleomenes I attack the city of Argos.
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493 BCEThe first fortifications are constructed at Athens' port of Piraeus.
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492 BCEDarius I of Persia invades Greece.
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11 Sep 490 BCEA combined force of Greek hoplites defeat the Persians at Marathon.
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c. 483 BCEThemistocles persuades the Athenians to significantly expand their fleet, which saves them at Salamis and becomes their source of power.
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480 BCETyrant of Syracuse Gelon defeats the Carthaginians at the battle of Himera.
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480 BCEThebes sides with Persia during Xerxes invasion of Greece.
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480 BCEAgrigento defeats Carthage at the battle of Himera.
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Aug 480 BCEThe indecisive battle of Artemision between the Greek and Persian fleets of Xerxes I. The Greeks withdraw to Salamis.
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Aug 480 BCEBattle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans under King Leonidas and other Greek allies hold back the Persians led by Xerxes I for three days but are defeated.
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Sep 480 BCEBattle of Salamis where the Greek naval fleet led by Themistocles defeats the invading armada of Xerxes I of Persia.
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479 BCEXerxes' Persian forces are defeated by Greek forces at Plataea effectively ending Persia's imperial ambitions in Greece.
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478 BCESpartan general Pausanias is given command of a force and takes both Cyprus and Byzantium.
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476 BCE - 463 BCEDelian League operations are led by Athenian commander Cimon
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c. 475 BCEAthenian general Cimon defeats Spartan general Pausanias and takes Byzantium.
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c. 466 BCEAthenian general Cimon twice defeats the Persians at Eurymedon on the southern coast of Asia Minor.
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465 BCE - 463 BCEAthenian general Cimon conquers Chersonesus in Thrace and the north-Aegean island of Thasos.
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460 BCE - 445 BCEFirst Peloponnesian War.
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457 BCESparta wins the battle of Tanagra during the 1st Peloponnesian War with Athens.
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453 BCEPericles erects trophy at Nemea after Athenian victory over the Sikyonians.
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450 BCEAthenian general Cimon dies on Cyprus fighting the Persians.
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448 BCEPericles leads the Athenian forces in the Battle of Delphi.
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440 BCEHoplites become increasingly lighter-armoured, as new battle tactics required more mobility.
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433 BCEA naval battle between the victorious combined forces of Corcyra and Athens against Corinth.
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431 BCE - 404 BCEThe 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League) which involved all of Greece.
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431 BCE - 404 BCEThe Cycladic city states side with Athens in the Peloponnesian war against Sparta and her allies.
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431 BCE - 404 BCEThebes sides with Sparta against Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
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431 BCEAthens invades Megara.
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c. 430 BCE - 415 BCEThe Histories of Herodotus is published. The work is divided into nine chapters, each dedicated to one of the Muses.
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429 BCEAthens successfully campaigns in the Corinthian Gulf regions during the Peloponnesian War.
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429 BCEPeloponnesian forces led by Sparta begin the siege of Plataea.
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427 BCEPlataea finally falls to the Spartans after a two year siege.
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425 BCEAthenians capture Pylos. Spartan general Brasidas is injured in attempting to retake the city.
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425 BCEAthenian and Corinthian hoplites fight a street battle in the suburbs of Solygeia.
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425 BCEPylos campaign, under Cleon and Demosthenes' command Athens defeats Sparta at Pylos.
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424 BCEThe Athenian expeditions against Megara and Boeotia are a failure with a particularly heavy defeat near Delion.
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424 BCESpartan Brasidas' campaign in Thrace.
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424 BCESpartan general Brasidas takes Amphipolis, Thucydides failed to prevent this and is exiled.
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424 BCEA force of Athenian peltasts defeat Spartan hoplites on Sphaktria in the Peloponnese.
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422 BCEThe Athenians, led by Cleon, try to retake Amphipolis but are defeated by Brasidas.
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422 BCESpartan general Brasidas employs Myrkinian and Chalkidian peltasts to defeat a force of Athenian hoplites at Amphipolis.
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418 BCESparta, led by Agis II, defeats Argos and her allies at the battle of Mantinaea.
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415 BCE - 413 BCEAthenian expedition to attack Syracuse.
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c. 415 BCEAlcibiades persuades the Athenian assembly to send a military expedition to Sicily.
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414 BCEAthens constructs fortifications at Sounion.
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413 BCEThe Athenian expedition in Sicily ends in disastrous defeat and the Athenian generals Nicias and Demosthenes are executed.
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412 BCEThe Spartan general Astyochus sacks Kos.
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412 BCESparta allies with Persia.
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410 BCEAlcibiades leads the Athenian fleet to victory over Sparta at Cyzicus.
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407 BCEAthenian general Alcibiades makes his naval base on Samos.
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c. 407 BCEThe Athenian fleet is defeated by Lysander of Sparta at Notium.
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406 BCEAgrigento is attacked and destroyed by Carthage.
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404 BCEEnd of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aigospotamoi, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
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397 BCEDionysius I of Syracuse employs wheeled seige towers and bolt throwers for the first time in Greek warfare at the seige of Motya.
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396 BCESpartan Agesilaus II's campaign into Ionia.
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395 BCE - 386 BCEThe Corinthian Wars between Sparta and an alliance of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Boeotia and Thebes.
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395 BCESpartan general Lysander is killed by Theban forces at the Battle of Hallartos.
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394 BCESpartan king Agesilaus II defeats a Theban coalition at the battle of Coronea.
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390 BCEAthenian leader Iphikrates employs peltasts to defeat Spartan hoplites at Lechaion near Corinth.
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382 BCE - 379 BCESparta establishes a garrison at Thebes.
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378 BCE - 377 BCESpartan king Agesilaus II campaigns in Boeotia.
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375 BCEThebes defeats Sparta at the Battle of Tegyra.
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371 BCEThebes, led by Epaminondas, defeats Sparta in the Battle of Leuctra.
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367 BCECeltic mercenaries fight with the Spartans against Thebes.
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366 BCETheban general Epaminondas builds a fleet to harass the Athenian Empire.
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364 BCEMacedonian general Perdiccas III successfully defends Amphipolis against Athenian attack.
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364 BCETheban general Pelopidas is victorious but killed at the Battle of Kynoskephalai.
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362 BCEIndecisive Battle of Matinea where Thebes fought against Sparta and Athens. Theban general Epaminondas is killed.
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349 BCEPhocion leads an Athenian campaign in Euboea.
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340 BCEPhocion defeats Philip II of Macedon at Byzantium.
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338 BCEPhilip of Macedonia defeats the Greek allied forces of Athens, Thebes and Corinth in the Battle of Chaironeia.
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May 334 BCEAlexander invades the Persian empire.
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327 BCEThe argyraspides, a special unit of hypaspist, is formed.
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284 BCELysimachus drives Pyrrhus out of Macedon.
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280 BCE - 275 BCEKing Pyrrhus of Epirus wages the Pyrrhic War against the Romans in Italy, defence of Tarentum being the pretext.
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Jul 280 BCEPyrrhus defeats the Romans at the Battle of Heraclea.
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279 BCEPyrrhus defeats the Romans at the Battle of Asculum.
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275 BCEThe Romans defeat Pyrrhus of Epirus at the Battle of Maleventum.
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273 BCEPyrrhus of Epirus attacks Macedon and Sparta.
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229 BCECorcyra is captured by the Illyrians.
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225 BCEMacedonians bring an army across the Isthmus to face another Achaian force trying to take Corinth.
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205 BCEPhilip V of Macedon take Samos.
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146 BCERome sacks Corinth and dissolves the Achaean league. Greece is ruled by Rome.