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c. 4000 BCE

Founding of the city of Sidon.
c. 1100 BCE - c. 600 BCE

Iron Age Development, public buildings erected at the Agora in Athens.
c. 1025 BCE

Migrants from Ionia settle on Naxos.
c. 900 BCE

Sparta is founded.
800 BCE - 500 BCE

Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
c. 740 BCE - c. 433 BCE

Greek poleis or city-states establish colonies in Magna Graecia.
c. 740 BCE

Chalcis and Kyme found the colony of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
733 BCE

Corinth founds the colony of Syracuse in Sicily.
c. 733 BCE

Traditional date when Corinth founds a colony on Corcyra.
c. 720 BCE

Sybaris in Magna Graecia founded by Archaean settlers.
c. 710 BCE

Croton in Magna Graecia founded by Archaean settlers.
706 BCE

Sparta founds the colony of Tarentum in Magna Graecia.
700 BCE - 600 BCE

King Phiedon leads Argos to its greatest expansion.
630 BCE

Greek colonists from the island of Thera found the city of Cyrene in North Africa.
546 BCE - 545 BCE

Persian conquest of Ionian Greek city-states.
c. 540 BCE

Phocaea founds Elea in Magna Graecia.
c. 501 BCE

Aegina's culture is at its height.
c. 443 BCE

Thurii in Magna Graecia founded by Athenian settlers.
433 BCE

Tarentum founds Heraclea in Magna Graecia.
c. 408 BCE

The various city-states of Rhodes form a single federal state.
371 BCE - 362 BCE

Thebes is the dominant city-state in Greece.
89 BCE

All poleis or city-states in Magna Graecia come under Roman control.