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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Kingdom of Nan Yueh extends from North Vi?t Nam to Canton






2. El Mirador - largest early Maya city - flourishes






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






4. Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.






5. Death of Cyrus






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






7. The Buddhist Srivijaya Empire established in Maritime Southeast Asia.






8. Death of Confucius






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






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






11. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.






12. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.






13. Emperor Wu established Jin Dynasty providing a temporary unity of China after the devastating Three Kingdoms period.






14. Purported date of the accession of Jimmu - the mythical first Emperor of Japan






15. Zapotec culture flourishes around city of Monte Alb






16. Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.






17. Th?c Dynasty takes over Vi?t Nam (then Kingdom of






18. Democracy instituted atAthens






19. Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela






20. 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






21. Birth of Socrates






22. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama






23. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon






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






25. Sunga Empire founded.






26. Sunga Empire founded.






27. First Peloponnesian War betweenAthens and Sparta






28. Kingdom of Champa in Central Vi?t Nam.






29. 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.






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






31. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia






32. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia






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






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






35. Death of Gautama Buddha






36. Construction of the world's largest pyramid - the Great Pyramid of Cholula - begins in Cholula - Puebla - Mexico






37. Rise of the Median Empire






38. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.






39. 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






40. Expulsion of the last King of Rome - founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)






41. Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.






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






43. Founding of Rome (traditional date)






44. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.






45. Chola dynasty rises in prominence.






46. Skandagupta repels anIndo-Hephthalite attack onIndia.






47. Emperor Wu established Jin Dynasty providing a temporary unity of China after the devastating Three Kingdoms period.






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






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






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






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