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1500 BCEThe site of Delphi is first settled.
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c. 800 BCEThe site of Delphi first acquires a religious significance.
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c. 650 BCEThe first temple in honour of Apollo is built at Delphi.
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c. 580 BCEThe kouroi of Argos, thought to represent Cleobis & Biton, are sculpted.
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560 BCEThe oracles of Delphi and Thebes both tell King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacks the Medes, he will destroy a great empire. Seeing this as a good omen, he goes to war, loses, and the Lydian Empire is destroyed.
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c. 560 BCENaxos dedicates a large column and sphinx to the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
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c. 525 BCEThe Treasury of the Siphnians is built at Delphi which included Caryatid architecture.
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c. 510 BCEThe second temple to Apollo is constructed at Delphi, replacing the first temple destroyed by fire.
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490 BCEAthens builds a treasury at Delphi following their victory at Marathon against Persia.
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480 BCE - 460 BCEThe bronze charioteer of Delphi is sculpted.
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480 BCEPersian forces attack the sanctuary of Delphi.
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448 BCEPericles leads the Athenian forces in the Battle of Delphi.
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373 BCEAn earthquake destroys the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
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c. 330 BCEThe third temple to Apollo is constructed at Delphi, replacing the earlier temple damaged by earthquake.
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279 BCEGauls attack the sanctuary of Delphi.
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191 BCEDelphi comes under Roman control.
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c. 67 CEEmperor Nero competes at the panhellenic Games of Olympia and Delphi.
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393 CERoman Emperor Theodosius definitively ends all pagan Games in Greece.
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c. 591 CE - 585 CEThe Pythian Games of Delphi began.