Corinth was a Greek, Hellenistic and Roman city located on the isthmus which connects mainland Greece with the Peloponnese. Surrounded by fertile plains and blessed with natural springs, ancient Corinth was a centre of trade, had a naval fleet and participated in various Greek wars.
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c. 5000 BCEEarliest Neolithic finds in the Corinth area.
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1074 BCEAletes, the last Dorian king of Late Bronze Age Corinth, is deposed.
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926 BCE - 891 BCEBacchis, a descendent of Aletes, becomes king of Corinth.
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c. 750 BCEThe Bacchiadae take power in Corinth.
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c. 733 BCETraditional date when Corinth founds a colony on Corcyra.
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733 BCECorinth founds the colony of Syracuse in Sicily.
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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. 657 BCE - 585 BCEThe Kypselidai are tyrants of Corinth.
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c. 627 BCE - c. 587 BCEPeriander is tyrant at Corinth.
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c. 625 BCEBlack-figure pottery created in Corinth.
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c. 625 BCE - 600 BCEThe orientalizing style of Greek pottery becomes popular in Corinth.
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c. 620 BCE - 600 BCEProto-corinthian reaches its zenith in artistic quality producing the best pottery in Greece.
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585 BCEAn oligarchy of 80 takes power at Corinth.
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580 BCEFirst athletic games at Isthmia.
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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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c. 550 BCEThe temple of Apollo is constructed at Corinth.
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525 BCESparta and Corinth unsuccessfully attack Polycrates of Samos.
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433 BCEA naval battle between the victorious combined forces of Corcyra and Athens against Corinth.
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429 BCEAthens successfully campaigns in the Corinthian Gulf regions during the Peloponnesian War.
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c. 411 BCE - c. 337 BCELife of Corinthian general Timoleon.
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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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c. 354 BCEXenophon dies at Corinth.
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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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243 BCECorinth joins the Archaean League.
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243 BCECorinth is attacked and brought into the Achaean League.
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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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146 BCERome sacks Corinth and dissolves the Achaean league. Greece is ruled by Rome.
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44 BCEJulius Caesar founds the Roman colony of Corinth.
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67 CEUnder Nero excavation of the Corinth Canal begins but is abandoned after three months.
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267 CEThe Goths sack Athens, Corinth, Sparta, and Argos.
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c. 396 CECorinth burned by the Visigoths under Alaric.
