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Classical Antiquity Timeline
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1. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
612 BCE
480 BCE
250 BCE
220
2. Sunga Empire founded.
325
551 BCE
185 BCE
4 BCE
3. Chera dynasty in SouthIndia
404 BCE
257 BCE
321 BCE
c. 200 BCE
4. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.
776 BCE
117
399 BCE
18 BCE
5. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire
49 BCE
68
600 BCE
232 BCE
6. 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
273 BCE
202 BCE
653 BCE
6 BCE
7. Spring and Autumn Period begins in China; Zhou Dynasty's power is diminishing; the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought
722 BCE
563 BCE
475 BCE
539 BCE
8. Tiglath-Pileser III becomes the new king of Assyria. With time he conquers neighboring countries and turns Assyria into an empire
c. 455
305 BCE
325
745 BCE
9. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama
335
202 BCE
404 BCE
384 BCE
10. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece
146 BCE
326 BCE
335
399 BCE
11. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.
400 BCE
305 BCE
335
544 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.
285
202 BCE
305 BCE
c. 455
13. Roman Empire at largest extent under Emperor Trajan.
192
70
469 BCE
117
14. Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon
c. 455
273 BCE
753 BCE
490 BCE
15. End of Peloponnesian War between the Greek city-states
500 BCE
404 BCE
549 BCE
4 BCE
16. Invasion of Greece by Xerxes; Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis
185 BCE
700 BCE
399 BCE
480 BCE
17. Alexander the Great defeatsIndian king Porus in the Battle of the Hydaspes River.
745 BCE
326 BCE
257 BCE
49 BCE
18. Warring States Period begins in China as the Zhou king became a mere figurehead; China is annexed by regional warlords
335
475 BCE
313
508 BCE
19. Democracy instituted atAthens
424 BCE
508 BCE
4 BCE
230 BCE
20. Widely accepted date (Ussher) for birth of Jesus Christ
221 BCE
79
4 BCE
653 BCE
21. The Oresteia by Aeschylus - the only surviving trilogy of ancient Greek plays - is performed.
226
458 BCE
722 BCE
321 BCE
22. Death of Emperor Augustus (Octavian) - ascension of his adopted son Tiberius to the throne
745 BCE
230 BCE
c. 500 BCE
14
23. Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.
424 BCE
745 BCE
70
653 BCE
24. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.
600 BCE
18 BCE
9
600 BCE
25. Year of the four emperors in Rome.
14
600 BCE
323 BCE
68
26. Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great
500 BCE
722 BCE
563 BCE
49 BCE
27. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started
424 BCE
447 BCE
44 BCE
200s
28. Edict of Milan declared that the Roman Empire would be neutral toward religious worship.
458 BCE
465 BCE
313
465 BCE
29. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon
250 BCE
550 BCE
79
323 BCE
30. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit
384 BCE
500 BCE
549 BCE
9
31. 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.
500 BCE
469 BCE
305 BCE
285
32. Skandagupta repels anIndo-Hephthalite attack onIndia.
c. 455
185 BCE
202 BCE
424 BCE
33. 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
480 BCE
226
c. 455
476
34. 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
111 BCE
563 BCE
4 BCE
378
35. Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.
44 BCE
321 BCE
300 BCE
331 BCE
36. Death of Confucius
192
220
479 BCE
399 BCE
37. Visigoths sacks Rome for the first time since 390 BCE.
49 BCE
79
326 BCE
410
38. Darius I (Darius the Great) of Persia - subjugates eastern Thrace - Macedonia submits voluntarily - and annexes Libya - Persian Empire at largest extent
202 BCE
44 BCE
c. 512 BCE
529 BCE
39. The construction of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix
226
c. 512 BCE
700 BCE
68
40. Defeat of Gordian III (238
479 BCE
238
44 BCE
432 BCE
41. Sophocles's play Oedipus the King is first performed
653 BCE
429 BCE
c. 200 BCE
220
42. Death of Socrates
29
c. 100 BCE
399 BCE
185 BCE
43. Rise of Magadha as the dominant power under Bimbisara.
c. 500 BCE
600 BCE
458 BCE
544 BCE
44. Battle of Adrianople - Roman army is defeated by the Germanic tribes.
378
546 BCE
185 BCE
660 BCE
45. Fall of the Parthian Empire and Rise of the Sassanian Empire.
70
404 BCE
9
226
46. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia
230 BCE
378
395
331 BCE
47. Julius Caesar murdered by Marcus Brutus and others; End of Roman Republic; beginning of Roman Empire
44 BCE
549 BCE
424 BCE
544 BCE
48. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire
400 BCE
660 BCE
232 BCE
220
49. Birth of Augustine of Hippo
192
384 BCE
325
354
50. Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon
230 BCE
490 BCE
500 BCE
331 BCE