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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.