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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Death of Confucius






2. 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






3. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.






4. Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.






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






6. Construction of the Parthenon






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






8. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.






9. Rise of the Median Empire






10. Death of Socrates






11. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama






12. Founding of Rome (traditional date)






13. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon






14. Skandagupta repels anIndo-Hephthalite attack onIndia.






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






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






17. Death of Cyrus






18. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started






19. Democracy instituted atAthens






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






21. Roman Empire at largest extent under Emperor Trajan.






22. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece






23. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama






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






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






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






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.






28. Cambyses II of Persia conquers Egypt






29. Destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Vesuvius.






30. Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.






31. Pingala uses zero and binary numeral system






32. Rise of Persian Empire






33. Death of Socrates






34. Cyrus the Great overthrows Croesus King of Lydia






35. completion of Euclid's Elements






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






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






38. Chola dynasty rises in prominence.






39. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth






40. Defeat of Gordian III (238






41. Destruction of theFirst Temple in Jerusalem (Solomon's Temple) by the Babylonians






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






43. Chera dynasty in SouthIndia






44. 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






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






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






47. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia






48. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started






49. Attributed date of the destruction of Nineveh and subsequent fall of Assyria.






50. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth