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Classical Antiquity Timeline

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1. Zapotec culture flourishes around city of Monte Alb
326 BCE
400 BCE
257 BCE
458 BCE

2. 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.
479 BCE
660 BCE
221 BCE
238

3. completion of Euclid's Elements
546 BCE
257 BCE
c. 500 BCE
185 BCE

4. Rise of Persian Empire
207 BCE
653 BCE
424 BCE
483 BCE

5. Birth of Augustine of Hippo
200 BCE
354
c. 200 BCE
323 BCE

6. Year of the four emperors in Rome.
546 BCE
476
68
722 BCE

7. Rise of Magadha as the dominant power under Bimbisara.
544 BCE
549 BCE
c. 512 BCE
476

8. Birth of Augustine of Hippo
232 BCE
185 BCE
354
600 BCE

9. Th?c Dynasty takes over Vi?t Nam (then Kingdom of
257 BCE
c. 200 BCE
384 BCE
539 BCE

10. Sixteen Maha Janapadas ('Great Realms' or 'Great Kingdoms') emerge inIndia.
600 BCE
c. 500 BCE
776 BCE
c. 600 BCE

11. El Mirador - largest early Maya city - flourishes
273 BCE
200 BCE
226
500 BCE

12. Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon
490 BCE
9
549 BCE
273 BCE

13. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.
68
509 BCE
335
c. 512 BCE

14. Death of Confucius
479 BCE
460 BCE
480 BCE
525 BCE

15. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.
776 BCE
c. 600 BCE
325
700 BCE

16. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
280
612 BCE
6 BCE
563 BCE

17. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.
325
549 BCE
335
79

18. Defeat of Gordian III (238
238
c. 600 BCE
600 BCE
4 BCE

19. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
185 BCE
479 BCE
410
220

20. Defeat of Gordian III (238
728 BCE
238
220
384 BCE

21. 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
550 BCE
202 BCE
68
460 BCE

22. Mahavira - founder of Jainism is born
660 BCE
323 BCE
79
549 BCE

23. The construction of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix
321 BCE
410
525 BCE
700 BCE

24. Sunga Empire founded.
70
185 BCE
300 BCE
549 BCE

25. Expulsion of the last King of Rome - founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)
722 BCE
c. 600 BCE
c. 500 BCE
509 BCE

26. Rise of the Median Empire
220
728 BCE
395
111 BCE

27. Kingdom of Champa in Central Vi?t Nam.
465 BCE
c. 200 BCE
192
29

28. Visigoths sacks Rome for the first time since 390 BCE.
539 BCE
469 BCE
200 BCE
410

29. Emperor Diocletian splits the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western Empires.
14
285
465 BCE
728 BCE

30. 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
544 BCE
546 BCE
476
378

31. Kingdom of Nan Yueh extends from North Vi?t Nam to Canton
483 BCE
331 BCE
539 BCE
207 BCE

32. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit
500 BCE
660 BCE
321 BCE
600 BCE

33. Sixteen Maha Janapadas ('Great Realms' or 'Great Kingdoms') emerge inIndia.
14
70
460 BCE
600 BCE

34. Battle of the TeutoburgForest - the Imperial Roman Army's bloodiest defeat
753 BCE
4 BCE
9
550 BCE

35. Ashoka the Great becomes the emperor of the Mauryan Empire
429 BCE
525 BCE
432 BCE
273 BCE

36. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
6 BCE
429 BCE
192
326 BCE

37. Cyrus the Great overthrows Croesus King of Lydia
546 BCE
410
335
146 BCE

38. 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
4 BCE
563 BCE
539 BCE
c. 512 BCE

39. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
202 BCE
326 BCE
6 BCE
220

40. Birth of Socrates
221 BCE
563 BCE
469 BCE
544 BCE

41. Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great
458 BCE
49 BCE
200 BCE
18 BCE

42. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.
200s
4 BCE
404 BCE
18 BCE

43. Spring and Autumn Period begins in China; Zhou Dynasty's power is diminishing; the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought
722 BCE
509 BCE
202 BCE
331 BCE

44. Julius Caesar murdered by Marcus Brutus and others; End of Roman Republic; beginning of Roman Empire
29
221 BCE
44 BCE
207 BCE

45. completion of Euclid's Elements
230 BCE
384 BCE
c. 500 BCE
6 BCE

46. Pandyan kingdom in SouthIndia
475 BCE
586 BCE
200s
c. 600 BCE

47. Sophocles's play Oedipus the King is first performed
285
429 BCE
192
c. 512 BCE

48. Confucius - founder of Confucianism - is born
185 BCE
273 BCE
185 BCE
551 BCE

49. The Buddhist Srivijaya Empire established in Maritime Southeast Asia.
207 BCE
146 BCE
200s
653 BCE

50. Democracy instituted atAthens
331 BCE
508 BCE
185 BCE
395