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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.






2. Sunga Empire founded.






3. Chera dynasty in SouthIndia






4. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.






5. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire






6. Han Dynasty established in China - after the death of Qin Shi Huang; China in this period officially becomes a Confucian state and opens trading connections with the West - i.e. the Silk Road






7. Spring and Autumn Period begins in China; Zhou Dynasty's power is diminishing; the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought






8. Tiglath-Pileser III becomes the new king of Assyria. With time he conquers neighboring countries and turns Assyria into an empire






9. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama






10. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece






11. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.






12. Chandragupta Maurya seizes the satrapies of Paropanisadai (Kabul) - Aria (Herat) - Arachosia (Qanadahar) and Gedrosia (Baluchistan)from Seleucus I Nicator - the Macedonian satrap of Babylonia - in return for 500 elephants.






13. Roman Empire at largest extent under Emperor Trajan.






14. Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon






15. End of Peloponnesian War between the Greek city-states






16. Invasion of Greece by Xerxes; Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis






17. Alexander the Great defeatsIndian king Porus in the Battle of the Hydaspes River.






18. Warring States Period begins in China as the Zhou king became a mere figurehead; China is annexed by regional warlords






19. Democracy instituted atAthens






20. Widely accepted date (Ussher) for birth of Jesus Christ






21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus - the only surviving trilogy of ancient Greek plays - is performed.






22. Death of Emperor Augustus (Octavian) - ascension of his adopted son Tiberius to the throne






23. Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.






24. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.






25. Year of the four emperors in Rome.






26. Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great






27. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started






28. Edict of Milan declared that the Roman Empire would be neutral toward religious worship.






29. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon






30. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit






31. Chandragupta Maurya seizes the satrapies of Paropanisadai (Kabul) - Aria (Herat) - Arachosia (Qanadahar) and Gedrosia (Baluchistan)from Seleucus I Nicator - the Macedonian satrap of Babylonia - in return for 500 elephants.






32. Skandagupta repels anIndo-Hephthalite attack onIndia.






33. Romulus Augustus - last Western Roman Emperor is forced to abdicate by Odoacer - a chieftain of the Germanic Heruli; Odoacer returns the imperial regalia to Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno in Constantinople in return for the title of dux of Italy; most fr






34. 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






35. Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.






36. Death of Confucius






37. Visigoths sacks Rome for the first time since 390 BCE.






38. Darius I (Darius the Great) of Persia - subjugates eastern Thrace - Macedonia submits voluntarily - and annexes Libya - Persian Empire at largest extent






39. The construction of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix






40. Defeat of Gordian III (238






41. Sophocles's play Oedipus the King is first performed






42. Death of Socrates






43. Rise of Magadha as the dominant power under Bimbisara.






44. Battle of Adrianople - Roman army is defeated by the Germanic tribes.






45. Fall of the Parthian Empire and Rise of the Sassanian Empire.






46. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia






47. Julius Caesar murdered by Marcus Brutus and others; End of Roman Republic; beginning of Roman Empire






48. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire






49. Birth of Augustine of Hippo






50. Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon