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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Fall of the Parthian Empire and Rise of the Sassanian Empire.
226
546 BCE
509 BCE
600 BCE

2. Murder of Xerxes
600 BCE
551 BCE
384 BCE
465 BCE

3. Birth of Aristotle
c. 455
220
384 BCE
c. 100 BCE

4. completion of Euclid's Elements
c. 500 BCE
458 BCE
500 BCE
220

5. Kingdom of Champa in Central Vi?t Nam.
447 BCE
192
185 BCE
458 BCE

6. First Peloponnesian War betweenAthens and Sparta
202 BCE
460 BCE
551 BCE
331 BCE

7. Qin Shi Huang unifies China - end of Warring States Period; marking the beginning of Imperial rule in China which lasts until 1912. Construction of the Great Wall by the Qin Dynasty begins.
4 BCE
546 BCE
300 BCE
221 BCE

8. Death of Emperor Augustus (Octavian) - ascension of his adopted son Tiberius to the throne
700 BCE
18 BCE
14
c. 600 BCE

9. Skandagupta repels anIndo-Hephthalite attack onIndia.
400 BCE
c. 455
753 BCE
230 BCE

10. Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great
49 BCE
250 BCE
500 BCE
29

11. Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.
70
753 BCE
331 BCE
551 BCE

12. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.
325
c. 512 BCE
753 BCE
6 BCE

13. Death of Emperor Augustus (Octavian) - ascension of his adopted son Tiberius to the throne
146 BCE
117
14
250 BCE

14. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.
185 BCE
550 BCE
c. 600 BCE
18 BCE

15. Sixteen Maha Janapadas ('Great Realms' or 'Great Kingdoms') emerge inIndia.
331 BCE
600 BCE
6 BCE
c. 600 BCE

16. Alexander the Great defeatsIndian king Porus in the Battle of the Hydaspes River.
29
469 BCE
313
326 BCE

17. Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon
479 BCE
335
490 BCE
529 BCE

18. Expulsion of the last King of Rome - founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)
44 BCE
257 BCE
378
509 BCE

19. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
220
200 BCE
70
660 BCE

20. Year of the four emperors in Rome.
400 BCE
221 BCE
68
4 BCE

21. Visigoths sacks Rome for the first time since 390 BCE.
500 BCE
321 BCE
111 BCE
410

22. Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.
285
257 BCE
321 BCE
544 BCE

23. The Oresteia by Aeschylus - the only surviving trilogy of ancient Greek plays - is performed.
480 BCE
550 BCE
458 BCE
14

24. Year of the four emperors in Rome.
68
146 BCE
220
776 BCE

25. Rise of the Median Empire
202 BCE
331 BCE
447 BCE
728 BCE

26. Death of Socrates
399 BCE
250 BCE
232 BCE
550 BCE

27. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.
29
551 BCE
660 BCE
325

28. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) - founder of Buddhism is born as a prince of the Shakya tribe - which ruled parts of Magadha - one of the Maha Janapadas
586 BCE
563 BCE
117
200s

29. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama
202 BCE
326 BCE
479 BCE
500 BCE

30. Visigoths sacks Rome for the first time since 390 BCE.
18 BCE
410
250 BCE
200 BCE

31. The Fall of the Babylonian Empire and liberation of the Jews by Cyrus the Great
c. 100 BCE
79
221 BCE
539 BCE

32. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
551 BCE
6 BCE
563 BCE
9

33. Edict of Milan declared that the Roman Empire would be neutral toward religious worship.
404 BCE
238
313
700 BCE

34. End of Peloponnesian War between the Greek city-states
563 BCE
469 BCE
404 BCE
200s

35. Foundation of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great
79
550 BCE
728 BCE
c. 200 BCE

36. Pingala uses zero and binary numeral system
508 BCE
4 BCE
230 BCE
500 BCE

37. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire
404 BCE
232 BCE
529 BCE
500 BCE

38. Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
313
68
479 BCE
29

39. Zapotec culture flourishes around city of Monte Alb
550 BCE
44 BCE
400 BCE
728 BCE

40. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece
146 BCE
399 BCE
400 BCE
475 BCE

41. Destruction of theFirst Temple in Jerusalem (Solomon's Temple) by the Babylonians
465 BCE
207 BCE
586 BCE
378

42. Spring and Autumn Period begins in China; Zhou Dynasty's power is diminishing; the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought
525 BCE
111 BCE
500 BCE
722 BCE

43. Confucius - founder of Confucianism - is born
250 BCE
525 BCE
551 BCE
c. 600 BCE

44. Pandyan kingdom in SouthIndia
728 BCE
480 BCE
c. 600 BCE
250 BCE

45. Darius I (Darius the Great) of Persia - subjugates eastern Thrace - Macedonia submits voluntarily - and annexes Libya - Persian Empire at largest extent
c. 512 BCE
551 BCE
c. 200 BCE
447 BCE

46. Battle of the TeutoburgForest - the Imperial Roman Army's bloodiest defeat
9
776 BCE
395
432 BCE

47. Evidence of writing system appear in Oaxaca used by the Zapotec civilization
70
313
465 BCE
600 BCE

48. Founding of Rome (traditional date)
753 BCE
490 BCE
653 BCE
305 BCE

49. First recorded Olympic Games. The history of the Games is believed to reach as far back as the 13th century BCE but no older written record survives.
9
395
14
776 BCE

50. Invasion of Greece by Xerxes; Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis
753 BCE
480 BCE
14
483 BCE