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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Birth of Aristotle






2. Ashoka the Great becomes the emperor of the Mauryan Empire






3. El Mirador - largest early Maya city - flourishes






4. Chera dynasty in SouthIndia






5. 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.






6. Democracy instituted atAthens






7. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started






8. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece






9. Pandyan kingdom in SouthIndia






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






11. Birth of Socrates






12. Rise of Parthia (Ashk






13. Year of the four emperors in Rome.






14. Mahavira - founder of Jainism is born






15. 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.






16. Confucius - founder of Confucianism - is born






17. Sunga Empire founded.






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






19. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.






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






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






22. The Fall of the Babylonian Empire and liberation of the Jews by Cyrus the Great






23. Roman Empire at largest extent under Emperor Trajan.






24. Ashoka the Great becomes the emperor of the Mauryan Empire






25. Death of Cyrus






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






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






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






29. Zapotec culture flourishes around city of Monte Alb






30. Founding of Rome (traditional date)






31. Rise of the Median Empire






32. Roman Emperor Theodosius I outlaws all pagan religions in favour of Christianity.






33. Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.






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






35. Foundation of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great






36. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.






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






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






39. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama






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






41. Murder of Xerxes






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






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






44. Democracy instituted atAthens






45. The construction of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix






46. Battle of the TeutoburgForest - the Imperial Roman Army's bloodiest defeat






47. Birth of Socrates






48. Destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Vesuvius.






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






50. Cambyses II of Persia conquers Egypt