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c. 800 BCEThe oracle of Zeus is established at Dodona.
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776 BCEFirst athletic games in honour of Zeus are held at Olympia with one event, the stadion foot race.
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c. 700 BCEGreek poet Hesiod writes his Theogony and Works and Days.
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573 BCEFirst athletic games at Nemea in honour of Zeus.
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c. 480 BCEThe huge temple of Zeus is built at Agrigento.
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c. 460 BCE - 457 BCETemple of Zeus is built at Olympia with a statue of Apollo dominating the west pediment and containing the cult statue of Zeus by Phidias.
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c. 460 BCEThe bronze Poseidon or Zeus statue (of Cape Artemesium) is sculpted.
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c. 430 BCEThe cult statue of Zeus by Phidias is dedicated in the Temple of Zeus, Olympia. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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c. 330 BCETemple of Zeus built at Nemea.