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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Death of Cyrus
384 BCE
529 BCE
49 BCE
44 BCE

2. Fall of the Parthian Empire and Rise of the Sassanian Empire.
221 BCE
257 BCE
79
226

3. Emperor Wu established Jin Dynasty providing a temporary unity of China after the devastating Three Kingdoms period.
400 BCE
586 BCE
280
500 BCE

4. Birth of Aristotle
226
14
549 BCE
384 BCE

5. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.
600 BCE
323 BCE
18 BCE
460 BCE

6. Invasion of Greece by Xerxes; Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis
480 BCE
c. 455
202 BCE
c. 200 BCE

7. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia
230 BCE
232 BCE
273 BCE
257 BCE

8. Mahavira - founder of Jainism is born
586 BCE
509 BCE
192
549 BCE

9. Warring States Period begins in China as the Zhou king became a mere figurehead; China is annexed by regional warlords
480 BCE
475 BCE
432 BCE
544 BCE

10. Widely accepted date (Ussher) for birth of Jesus Christ
4 BCE
44 BCE
378
539 BCE

11. Sophocles's play Oedipus the King is first performed
525 BCE
200 BCE
429 BCE
326 BCE

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.
305 BCE
49 BCE
250 BCE
600 BCE

13. Democracy instituted atAthens
395
354
200 BCE
508 BCE

14. Cambyses II of Persia conquers Egypt
429 BCE
546 BCE
525 BCE
475 BCE

15. First Chinese domination of Vi?t Nam in the form of the Nanyue Kingdom.
539 BCE
49 BCE
232 BCE
111 BCE

16. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.
4 BCE
354
335
479 BCE

17. Alexander the Great defeatsIndian king Porus in the Battle of the Hydaspes River.
70
117
326 BCE
508 BCE

18. Skandagupta repels anIndo-Hephthalite attack onIndia.
c. 200 BCE
508 BCE
384 BCE
c. 455

19. Rise of the Median Empire
378
49 BCE
508 BCE
728 BCE

20. The construction of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix
700 BCE
238
146 BCE
326 BCE

21. 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
70
745 BCE
202 BCE
c. 455

22. Nanda dynasty comes to power.
14
424 BCE
404 BCE
399 BCE

23. Foundation of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great
479 BCE
563 BCE
550 BCE
500 BCE

24. Death of Gautama Buddha
660 BCE
483 BCE
465 BCE
447 BCE

25. Death of Cyrus
460 BCE
529 BCE
c. 200 BCE
c. 100 BCE

26. Rise of the Median Empire
c. 500 BCE
c. 100 BCE
508 BCE
728 BCE

27. 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.
544 BCE
776 BCE
325
111 BCE

28. Nanda dynasty comes to power.
660 BCE
c. 512 BCE
600 BCE
424 BCE

29. Warring States Period begins in China as the Zhou king became a mere figurehead; China is annexed by regional warlords
68
475 BCE
700 BCE
546 BCE

30. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit
49 BCE
500 BCE
192
323 BCE

31. Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.
111 BCE
79
70
44 BCE

32. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon
323 BCE
544 BCE
70
509 BCE

33. Zapotec culture flourishes around city of Monte Alb
6 BCE
68
200s
400 BCE

34. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon
c. 100 BCE
776 BCE
c. 200 BCE
323 BCE

35. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire
232 BCE
469 BCE
326 BCE
200 BCE

36. 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.
221 BCE
68
300 BCE
146 BCE

37. Sunga Empire founded.
483 BCE
529 BCE
185 BCE
c. 500 BCE

38. Tiglath-Pileser III becomes the new king of Assyria. With time he conquers neighboring countries and turns Assyria into an empire
221 BCE
465 BCE
305 BCE
745 BCE

39. Cyrus the Great overthrows Croesus King of Lydia
325
146 BCE
4 BCE
546 BCE

40. Expulsion of the last King of Rome - founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)
509 BCE
475 BCE
202 BCE
653 BCE

41. Visigoths sacks Rome for the first time since 390 BCE.
79
586 BCE
539 BCE
410

42. Defeat of Gordian III (238
500 BCE
586 BCE
238
525 BCE

43. Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.
29
70
207 BCE
469 BCE

44. 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.
305 BCE
70
475 BCE
202 BCE

45. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia
230 BCE
465 BCE
508 BCE
745 BCE

46. Roman Empire at largest extent under Emperor Trajan.
476
117
6 BCE
202 BCE

47. Rise of Parthia (Ashk
753 BCE
600 BCE
250 BCE
469 BCE

48. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
378
745 BCE
529 BCE
6 BCE

49. Ashoka the Great becomes the emperor of the Mauryan Empire
232 BCE
273 BCE
c. 455
483 BCE

50. Purported date of the accession of Jimmu - the mythical first Emperor of Japan
660 BCE
500 BCE
146 BCE
354