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Classical Antiquity Timeline
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1. The Buddhist Srivijaya Empire established in Maritime Southeast Asia.
424 BCE
200s
700 BCE
500 BCE
2. Ashoka the Great becomes the emperor of the Mauryan Empire
4 BCE
273 BCE
335
c. 200 BCE
3. Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon
232 BCE
525 BCE
490 BCE
c. 512 BCE
4. Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon
400 BCE
14
745 BCE
490 BCE
5. Rise of Parthia (Ashk
117
728 BCE
612 BCE
250 BCE
6. Sixteen Maha Janapadas ('Great Realms' or 'Great Kingdoms') emerge inIndia.
29
600 BCE
c. 200 BCE
285
7. 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
660 BCE
326 BCE
321 BCE
202 BCE
8. 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.
285
600 BCE
776 BCE
14
9. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire
321 BCE
384 BCE
232 BCE
509 BCE
10. Murder of Xerxes
305 BCE
465 BCE
544 BCE
424 BCE
11. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
185 BCE
410
6 BCE
549 BCE
12. Visigoths sacks Rome for the first time since 390 BCE.
586 BCE
410
c. 455
9
13. Cyrus the Great overthrows Croesus King of Lydia
551 BCE
111 BCE
546 BCE
70
14. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit
68
500 BCE
238
429 BCE
15. Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.
238
776 BCE
321 BCE
469 BCE
16. Battle of Adrianople - Roman army is defeated by the Germanic tribes.
335
404 BCE
539 BCE
378
17. Construction of the world's largest pyramid - the Great Pyramid of Cholula - begins in Cholula - Puebla - Mexico
529 BCE
146 BCE
300 BCE
226
18. Year of the four emperors in Rome.
111 BCE
68
404 BCE
230 BCE
19. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia
230 BCE
18 BCE
6 BCE
285
20. The construction of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix
146 BCE
202 BCE
700 BCE
18 BCE
21. Birth of Aristotle
117
378
68
384 BCE
22. Battle of the TeutoburgForest - the Imperial Roman Army's bloodiest defeat
300 BCE
9
424 BCE
18 BCE
23. Construction of the Parthenon
432 BCE
460 BCE
226
551 BCE
24. Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela
221 BCE
200 BCE
323 BCE
331 BCE
25. Pandyan kingdom in SouthIndia
230 BCE
549 BCE
469 BCE
c. 600 BCE
26. Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great
563 BCE
331 BCE
49 BCE
479 BCE
27. Julius Caesar murdered by Marcus Brutus and others; End of Roman Republic; beginning of Roman Empire
326 BCE
479 BCE
202 BCE
44 BCE
28. Roman Emperor Theodosius I outlaws all pagan religions in favour of Christianity.
4 BCE
469 BCE
111 BCE
395
29. Kingdom of Champa in Central Vi?t Nam.
49 BCE
192
384 BCE
221 BCE
30. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started
335
660 BCE
207 BCE
447 BCE
31. 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
476
469 BCE
6 BCE
335
32. Widely accepted date (Ussher) for birth of Jesus Christ
4 BCE
745 BCE
14
395
33. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
399 BCE
6 BCE
14
378
34. First Chinese domination of Vi?t Nam in the form of the Nanyue Kingdom.
429 BCE
745 BCE
325
111 BCE
35. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.
480 BCE
335
238
192
36. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece
9
146 BCE
529 BCE
321 BCE
37. Kingdom of Nan Yueh extends from North Vi?t Nam to Canton
378
202 BCE
321 BCE
207 BCE
38. Emperor Diocletian splits the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western Empires.
753 BCE
285
424 BCE
226
39. Battle of Adrianople - Roman army is defeated by the Germanic tribes.
185 BCE
c. 512 BCE
378
447 BCE
40. Attributed date of the destruction of Nineveh and subsequent fall of Assyria.
612 BCE
469 BCE
192
395
41. Construction of the Parthenon
432 BCE
776 BCE
4 BCE
c. 512 BCE
42. 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
146 BCE
447 BCE
404 BCE
476
43. Destruction of theFirst Temple in Jerusalem (Solomon's Temple) by the Babylonians
586 BCE
300 BCE
525 BCE
509 BCE
44. Death of Cyrus
529 BCE
509 BCE
c. 512 BCE
220
45. Death of Emperor Augustus (Octavian) - ascension of his adopted son Tiberius to the throne
221 BCE
313
14
c. 200 BCE
46. Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela
612 BCE
546 BCE
395
331 BCE
47. Constantine I organises theFirst Council of Nicaea.
460 BCE
331 BCE
325
476
48. Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great
313
500 BCE
285
49 BCE
49. Sunga Empire founded.
469 BCE
395
660 BCE
185 BCE
50. Skandagupta repels anIndo-Hephthalite attack onIndia.
221 BCE
c. 455
331 BCE
146 BCE