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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon
469 BCE
192
323 BCE
29

2. Birth of Socrates
653 BCE
469 BCE
200s
c. 100 BCE

3. Cambyses II of Persia conquers Egypt
529 BCE
c. 600 BCE
500 BCE
525 BCE

4. Sunga Empire founded.
185 BCE
600 BCE
6 BCE
29

5. Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.
70
321 BCE
544 BCE
257 BCE

6. End of Peloponnesian War between the Greek city-states
c. 200 BCE
207 BCE
c. 500 BCE
404 BCE

7. Fall of the Parthian Empire and Rise of the Sassanian Empire.
238
226
460 BCE
400 BCE

8. Destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Vesuvius.
563 BCE
79
432 BCE
6 BCE

9. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
479 BCE
c. 100 BCE
220
70

10. Death of Cyrus
660 BCE
776 BCE
483 BCE
529 BCE

11. Death of Confucius
476
6 BCE
117
479 BCE

12. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.
c. 500 BCE
202 BCE
458 BCE
18 BCE

13. 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
404 BCE
9
424 BCE

14. Zapotec culture flourishes around city of Monte Alb
29
185 BCE
600 BCE
400 BCE

15. El Mirador - largest early Maya city - flourishes
313
776 BCE
200 BCE
335

16. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
529 BCE
70
600 BCE
6 BCE

17. Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela
753 BCE
325
68
331 BCE

18. Th?c Dynasty takes over Vi?t Nam (then Kingdom of
429 BCE
660 BCE
238
257 BCE

19. Death of Emperor Augustus (Octavian) - ascension of his adopted son Tiberius to the throne
745 BCE
29
14
c. 200 BCE

20. Rise of Persian Empire
728 BCE
273 BCE
653 BCE
544 BCE

21. 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.
745 BCE
305 BCE
476
313

22. The Buddhist Srivijaya Empire established in Maritime Southeast Asia.
563 BCE
273 BCE
200s
192

23. Ashoka the Great becomes the emperor of the Mauryan Empire
500 BCE
273 BCE
257 BCE
563 BCE

24. Julius Caesar murdered by Marcus Brutus and others; End of Roman Republic; beginning of Roman Empire
70
395
c. 100 BCE
44 BCE

25. 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
429 BCE
476
395
c. 200 BCE

26. completion of Euclid's Elements
c. 500 BCE
653 BCE
70
469 BCE

27. End of Peloponnesian War between the Greek city-states
c. 100 BCE
404 BCE
728 BCE
238

28. 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.
776 BCE
500 BCE
722 BCE
79

29. Murder of Xerxes
465 BCE
285
300 BCE
230 BCE

30. Expulsion of the last King of Rome - founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)
509 BCE
539 BCE
250 BCE
117

31. 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
202 BCE
185 BCE
273 BCE
6 BCE

32. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia
230 BCE
257 BCE
200 BCE
395

33. Construction of the world's largest pyramid - the Great Pyramid of Cholula - begins in Cholula - Puebla - Mexico
226
111 BCE
549 BCE
300 BCE

34. Rise of Parthia (Ashk
4 BCE
250 BCE
325
612 BCE

35. Warring States Period begins in China as the Zhou king became a mere figurehead; China is annexed by regional warlords
49 BCE
475 BCE
722 BCE
14

36. Rise of Parthia (Ashk
c. 500 BCE
529 BCE
226
250 BCE

37. Construction of the Parthenon
432 BCE
313
321 BCE
509 BCE

38. The construction of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix
700 BCE
226
185 BCE
9

39. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece
9
146 BCE
4 BCE
c. 500 BCE

40. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit
250 BCE
653 BCE
192
500 BCE

41. Death of Confucius
479 BCE
146 BCE
326 BCE
c. 600 BCE

42. Birth of Socrates
469 BCE
4 BCE
300 BCE
257 BCE

43. The construction of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix
4 BCE
185 BCE
753 BCE
700 BCE

44. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
220
529 BCE
509 BCE
399 BCE

45. Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.
200 BCE
728 BCE
70
200s

46. The Fall of the Babylonian Empire and liberation of the Jews by Cyrus the Great
c. 500 BCE
c. 512 BCE
539 BCE
9

47. Sixteen Maha Janapadas ('Great Realms' or 'Great Kingdoms') emerge inIndia.
586 BCE
305 BCE
404 BCE
600 BCE

48. Nanda dynasty comes to power.
410
4 BCE
424 BCE
250 BCE

49. Sixteen Maha Janapadas ('Great Realms' or 'Great Kingdoms') emerge inIndia.
111 BCE
600 BCE
480 BCE
202 BCE

50. Rise of Magadha as the dominant power under Bimbisara.
509 BCE
9
544 BCE
232 BCE