Search Results
-
c. 900 BCESparta is founded.
-
706 BCESparta founds the colony of Tarentum in Magna Graecia.
-
c. 700 BCESparta, Argos and Paros hold the first documented musical competitions in Greece.
-
c. 650 BCESparta crushes Messenian revolt.
-
c. 550 BCE - c. 366 BCEPeloponnesian League alliance between Sparta, Corinth, Elis and Tegea which establishes Spartan hegemony over the Peloponnese.
-
c. 545 BCESparta takes control of Thyrea from Argos.
-
525 BCESparta and Corinth unsuccessfully attack Polycrates of Samos.
-
494 BCE - 493 BCESpartan forces under Cleomenes I attack the city of Argos.
-
494 BCE - 493 BCETelesilla of Argos defends her city against the Spartan forces with an army of women.
-
c. 490 BCELeonidas beomes one of Sparta's two kings.
-
480 BCEPausanias is made regent of Sparta for his young cousin Pleistarchus.
-
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.
-
479 BCEXerxes' Persian forces are defeated by Greek forces at Plataea effectively ending Persia's imperial ambitions in Greece.
-
478 BCESparta withdraws from alliance against Persia.
-
c. 475 BCEAthenian general Cimon defeats Spartan general Pausanias and takes Byzantium.
-
c. 471 BCESpartan general Pausanias is put on trial for the second time with a charge of treason but is acquitted for a second time.
-
464 BCE - 463 BCEEarthquake in Sparta, followed by slave revolt. Surrender of Thasos.
-
460 BCE - 445 BCEFirst Peloponnesian War.
-
457 BCESparta wins the battle of Tanagra during the 1st Peloponnesian War with Athens.
-
451 BCESparta and Argos sign a peace treaty which endures for the next 30 years.
-
432 BCESparta declares that Athens has broken the Thirty Year Peace and prepares for war.
-
431 BCE - 404 BCEThe 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League) which involved all of Greece.
-
431 BCE - 404 BCEThebes sides with Sparta against Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
-
430 BCE - c. 354 BCELife of Xenophon of Athens.
-
429 BCEPeloponnesian forces led by Sparta begin the siege of Plataea.
-
429 BCEFollowing attacks by Sparta, fortifications at the port of Piraeus are extended to reduce the width of the harbour entrances.
-
427 BCEPlataea finally falls to the Spartans after a two year siege.
-
425 BCEPylos campaign, under Cleon and Demosthenes' command Athens defeats Sparta at Pylos.
-
424 BCE - 420 BCEThe Nike of Paionios is erected at Olympia to commemorate the Messenian and Naupaktian victory over Sparta at the battle of Sphakteria.
-
424 BCESpartan Brasidas' campaign in Thrace.
-
424 BCESpartan general Brasidas takes Amphipolis, Thucydides failed to prevent this and is exiled.
-
424 BCEA force of Athenian peltasts defeat Spartan hoplites on Sphaktria in the Peloponnese.
-
422 BCESpartan general Brasidas dies of his wounds at Amphipolis.
-
422 BCESpartan general Brasidas employs Myrkinian and Chalkidian peltasts to defeat a force of Athenian hoplites at Amphipolis.
-
421 BCESpartan soldiers return from campaigning Thrace, some as Neodamodeis.
-
420 BCESparta is excluded from the Olympic Games for breaking the ekecheiria or sacred truce.
-
418 BCESparta, led by Agis II, defeats Argos and her allies at the battle of Mantinaea.
-
413 BCEOn the advice of Alcibiades the Spartans take over the Athenian-held fort of Dekeleia.
-
412 BCEThe Spartan general Astyochus sacks Kos.
-
c. 412 BCERhodes revolts against Athens and supports Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
-
412 BCESparta allies with Persia.
-
410 BCEAlcibiades leads the Athenian fleet to victory over Sparta at Cyzicus.
-
c. 408 BCELysander is first made an admiral of the Spartan fleet.
-
c. 407 BCEThe Athenian fleet is defeated by Lysander of Sparta at Notium.
-
404 BCESpartan general Lysander attacks the Athenian port of Piraeus destroying parts of the Long Wall fortifications.
-
404 BCEEnd of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aigospotamoi, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
-
c. 398 BCEXenophon works as mercenary for Sparta.
-
396 BCESpartan Agesilaus II's campaign into Ionia.
-
395 BCE - 386 BCEThe Corinthian Wars between Sparta and an alliance of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Boeotia and Thebes.
-
395 BCESpartan general Lysander is killed by Theban forces at the Battle of Hallartos.
-
390 BCEAthenian leader Iphikrates employs peltasts to defeat Spartan hoplites at Lechaion near Corinth.
-
387 BCESparta attacks the Athenian port of Piraeus.
-
382 BCE - 379 BCESparta establishes a garrison at Thebes.
-
c. 379 BCEPelopidas removes the Spartan garrison from the Theban acropolis.
-
378 BCE - 377 BCESpartan king Agesilaus II campaigns in Boeotia.
-
377 BCE - 355 BCEThe Cycladic city states join Athens in the Second Athenian League against Sparta .
-
375 BCEThebes defeats Sparta at the Battle of Tegyra.
-
371 BCEThebes, led by Epaminondas, defeats Sparta in the Battle of Leuctra.
-
367 BCECeltic mercenaries fight with the Spartans against Thebes.
-
362 BCEIndecisive Battle of Matinea where Thebes fought against Sparta and Athens. Theban general Epaminondas is killed.
-
295 BCEDemetrius I campaigns in central Greece, removes the tyrant Lachares from Athens and defeats Sparta.
-
273 BCEPyrrhus of Epirus attacks Macedon and Sparta.
-
222 BCEThe Achaean League and Antigonos III of Macedon defeat Sparta at Sellasia.
-
267 CEThe Goths sack Athens, Corinth, Sparta, and Argos.
-
396 CESparta is sacked by the Visigoths led by Alaric.