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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Birth of Augustine of Hippo
479 BCE
250 BCE
c. 600 BCE
354

2. Purported date of the accession of Jimmu - the mythical first Emperor of Japan
728 BCE
660 BCE
111 BCE
313

3. Rise of Parthia (Ashk
c. 200 BCE
700 BCE
250 BCE
c. 100 BCE

4. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama
660 BCE
384 BCE
146 BCE
202 BCE

5. The Oresteia by Aeschylus - the only surviving trilogy of ancient Greek plays - is performed.
238
202 BCE
410
458 BCE

6. El Mirador - largest early Maya city - flourishes
410
500 BCE
200 BCE
280

7. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.
6 BCE
200s
335
c. 600 BCE

8. Chera dynasty in SouthIndia
c. 200 BCE
410
728 BCE
745 BCE

9. Battle of Adrianople - Roman army is defeated by the Germanic tribes.
378
745 BCE
549 BCE
49 BCE

10. Cambyses II of Persia conquers Egypt
525 BCE
273 BCE
479 BCE
776 BCE

11. First Peloponnesian War betweenAthens and Sparta
285
660 BCE
460 BCE
200 BCE

12. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece
146 BCE
479 BCE
c. 500 BCE
c. 455

13. Attributed date of the destruction of Nineveh and subsequent fall of Assyria.
612 BCE
226
44 BCE
500 BCE

14. Death of Gautama Buddha
483 BCE
68
238
273 BCE

15. 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
563 BCE
c. 200 BCE
313
331 BCE

16. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit
202 BCE
563 BCE
546 BCE
500 BCE

17. Sunga Empire founded.
200 BCE
18 BCE
185 BCE
500 BCE

18. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.
399 BCE
29
325
546 BCE

19. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.
447 BCE
111 BCE
c. 600 BCE
335

20. 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
722 BCE
207 BCE
c. 100 BCE

21. Edict of Milan declared that the Roman Empire would be neutral toward religious worship.
509 BCE
c. 100 BCE
14
313

22. Kingdom of Nan Yueh extends from North Vi?t Nam to Canton
300 BCE
544 BCE
207 BCE
432 BCE

23. End of Peloponnesian War between the Greek city-states
404 BCE
200 BCE
220
323 BCE

24. First Chinese domination of Vi?t Nam in the form of the Nanyue Kingdom.
111 BCE
525 BCE
469 BCE
273 BCE

25. Pandyan kingdom in SouthIndia
c. 600 BCE
745 BCE
447 BCE
221 BCE

26. Expulsion of the last King of Rome - founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)
200 BCE
700 BCE
509 BCE
c. 455

27. Democracy instituted atAthens
508 BCE
745 BCE
331 BCE
399 BCE

28. Defeat of Gordian III (238
612 BCE
18 BCE
238
483 BCE

29. First Chinese domination of Vi?t Nam in the form of the Nanyue Kingdom.
529 BCE
111 BCE
354
776 BCE

30. Darius I (Darius the Great) of Persia - subjugates eastern Thrace - Macedonia submits voluntarily - and annexes Libya - Persian Empire at largest extent
c. 512 BCE
305 BCE
202 BCE
776 BCE

31. Sixteen Maha Janapadas ('Great Realms' or 'Great Kingdoms') emerge inIndia.
549 BCE
529 BCE
600 BCE
192

32. 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.
273 BCE
469 BCE
563 BCE
776 BCE

33. Invasion of Greece by Xerxes; Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis
326 BCE
480 BCE
653 BCE
c. 600 BCE

34. Fall of the Parthian Empire and Rise of the Sassanian Empire.
226
546 BCE
238
305 BCE

35. Destruction of theFirst Temple in Jerusalem (Solomon's Temple) by the Babylonians
257 BCE
586 BCE
400 BCE
660 BCE

36. Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.
185 BCE
490 BCE
18 BCE
321 BCE

37. Rise of Magadha as the dominant power under Bimbisara.
544 BCE
49 BCE
117
508 BCE

38. Widely accepted date (Ussher) for birth of Jesus Christ
4 BCE
321 BCE
728 BCE
465 BCE

39. The Buddhist Srivijaya Empire established in Maritime Southeast Asia.
400 BCE
539 BCE
200s
220

40. Emperor Wu established Jin Dynasty providing a temporary unity of China after the devastating Three Kingdoms period.
280
722 BCE
221 BCE
447 BCE

41. Founding of Rome (traditional date)
753 BCE
200 BCE
232 BCE
18 BCE

42. Year of the four emperors in Rome.
544 BCE
728 BCE
68
238

43. Th?c Dynasty takes over Vi?t Nam (then Kingdom of
257 BCE
776 BCE
44 BCE
335

44. Battle of the TeutoburgForest - the Imperial Roman Army's bloodiest defeat
9
285
480 BCE
500 BCE

45. Confucius - founder of Confucianism - is born
551 BCE
529 BCE
79
202 BCE

46. Emperor Diocletian splits the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western Empires.
44 BCE
660 BCE
490 BCE
285

47. First Peloponnesian War betweenAthens and Sparta
460 BCE
257 BCE
395
509 BCE

48. Purported date of the accession of Jimmu - the mythical first Emperor of Japan
700 BCE
c. 455
660 BCE
49 BCE

49. Birth of Socrates
546 BCE
653 BCE
469 BCE
399 BCE

50. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece
509 BCE
146 BCE
508 BCE
207 BCE