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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Death of Confucius
479 BCE
539 BCE
465 BCE
480 BCE

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
490 BCE
14
273 BCE
563 BCE

3. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.
273 BCE
325
745 BCE
c. 200 BCE

4. Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Titus.
70
563 BCE
192
257 BCE

5. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit
221 BCE
238
331 BCE
500 BCE

6. Construction of the Parthenon
200 BCE
549 BCE
432 BCE
529 BCE

7. Tiglath-Pileser III becomes the new king of Assyria. With time he conquers neighboring countries and turns Assyria into an empire
14
395
469 BCE
745 BCE

8. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.
508 BCE
18 BCE
185 BCE
509 BCE

9. Rise of the Median Empire
753 BCE
476
660 BCE
728 BCE

10. Death of Socrates
117
399 BCE
483 BCE
354

11. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama
305 BCE
490 BCE
202 BCE
111 BCE

12. Founding of Rome (traditional date)
447 BCE
550 BCE
753 BCE
c. 100 BCE

13. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon
323 BCE
549 BCE
c. 455
539 BCE

14. Skandagupta repels anIndo-Hephthalite attack onIndia.
378
c. 512 BCE
c. 455
305 BCE

15. Emperor Wu established Jin Dynasty providing a temporary unity of China after the devastating Three Kingdoms period.
480 BCE
6 BCE
280
335

16. Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon
432 BCE
490 BCE
500 BCE
c. 500 BCE

17. Death of Cyrus
525 BCE
221 BCE
529 BCE
232 BCE

18. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started
257 BCE
117
447 BCE
238

19. Democracy instituted atAthens
220
722 BCE
508 BCE
14

20. Edict of Milan declared that the Roman Empire would be neutral toward religious worship.
200 BCE
476
313
429 BCE

21. Roman Empire at largest extent under Emperor Trajan.
117
146 BCE
563 BCE
331 BCE

22. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece
226
202 BCE
146 BCE
c. 500 BCE

23. Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama
480 BCE
202 BCE
700 BCE
111 BCE

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

25. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire
509 BCE
280
500 BCE
232 BCE

26. Expulsion of the last King of Rome - founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)
250 BCE
9
111 BCE
509 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.
432 BCE
776 BCE
200 BCE
300 BCE

28. Cambyses II of Persia conquers Egypt
525 BCE
185 BCE
335
202 BCE

29. Destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Vesuvius.
500 BCE
238
79
529 BCE

30. Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
226
354
29
305 BCE

31. Pingala uses zero and binary numeral system
221 BCE
500 BCE
c. 100 BCE
476

32. Rise of Persian Empire
432 BCE
653 BCE
200s
111 BCE

33. Death of Socrates
399 BCE
202 BCE
384 BCE
232 BCE

34. Cyrus the Great overthrows Croesus King of Lydia
776 BCE
476
546 BCE
483 BCE

35. completion of Euclid's Elements
722 BCE
c. 500 BCE
500 BCE
700 BCE

36. Emperor Wu established Jin Dynasty providing a temporary unity of China after the devastating Three Kingdoms period.
280
273 BCE
c. 100 BCE
79

37. Darius I (Darius the Great) of Persia - subjugates eastern Thrace - Macedonia submits voluntarily - and annexes Libya - Persian Empire at largest extent
c. 512 BCE
465 BCE
326 BCE
111 BCE

38. Chola dynasty rises in prominence.
321 BCE
4 BCE
700 BCE
c. 100 BCE

39. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
400 BCE
6 BCE
257 BCE
280

40. Defeat of Gordian III (238
238
458 BCE
230 BCE
563 BCE

41. Destruction of theFirst Temple in Jerusalem (Solomon's Temple) by the Babylonians
200s
305 BCE
586 BCE
232 BCE

42. Battle of Adrianople - Roman army is defeated by the Germanic tribes.
378
549 BCE
238
399 BCE

43. Chera dynasty in SouthIndia
c. 200 BCE
230 BCE
586 BCE
117

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
c. 512 BCE
612 BCE
221 BCE
476

45. Darius I (Darius the Great) of Persia - subjugates eastern Thrace - Macedonia submits voluntarily - and annexes Libya - Persian Empire at largest extent
c. 512 BCE
202 BCE
c. 500 BCE
331 BCE

46. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
326 BCE
220
480 BCE
490 BCE

47. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia
230 BCE
326 BCE
c. 100 BCE
70

48. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started
9
447 BCE
250 BCE
550 BCE

49. Attributed date of the destruction of Nineveh and subsequent fall of Assyria.
612 BCE
6 BCE
539 BCE
257 BCE

50. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
546 BCE
6 BCE
525 BCE
326 BCE