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Classical Antiquity Timeline
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1. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire
232 BCE
68
313
722 BCE
2. Confucius - founder of Confucianism - is born
c. 455
273 BCE
753 BCE
551 BCE
3. Ashoka the Great becomes the emperor of the Mauryan Empire
586 BCE
424 BCE
280
273 BCE
4. Nanda dynasty comes to power.
424 BCE
c. 200 BCE
146 BCE
c. 600 BCE
5. Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus of Nazareth
447 BCE
525 BCE
6 BCE
c. 100 BCE
6. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started
529 BCE
325
447 BCE
483 BCE
7. Evidence of writing system appear in Oaxaca used by the Zapotec civilization
600 BCE
6 BCE
500 BCE
722 BCE
8. Kingdom of Nan Yueh extends from North Vi?t Nam to Canton
232 BCE
509 BCE
4 BCE
207 BCE
9. Murder of Xerxes
753 BCE
458 BCE
460 BCE
465 BCE
10. Zapotec culture flourishes around city of Monte Alb
400 BCE
250 BCE
c. 512 BCE
490 BCE
11. Emperor Diocletian splits the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western Empires.
323 BCE
238
285
612 BCE
12. Battle of Adrianople - Roman army is defeated by the Germanic tribes.
313
378
753 BCE
544 BCE
13. Death of Confucius
410
226
313
479 BCE
14. Death of Cyrus
220
326 BCE
508 BCE
529 BCE
15. Fall of the Parthian Empire and Rise of the Sassanian Empire.
458 BCE
226
432 BCE
424 BCE
16. Widely accepted date (Ussher) for birth of Jesus Christ
424 BCE
458 BCE
410
4 BCE
17. Chola dynasty rises in prominence.
c. 100 BCE
429 BCE
460 BCE
c. 500 BCE
18. Death of Cyrus
529 BCE
424 BCE
600 BCE
399 BCE
19. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit
549 BCE
c. 455
111 BCE
500 BCE
20. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
432 BCE
18 BCE
230 BCE
220
21. Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit
300 BCE
226
500 BCE
192
22. Building of the Parthenon atAthens started
399 BCE
9
c. 100 BCE
447 BCE
23. Attributed date of the destruction of Nineveh and subsequent fall of Assyria.
285
753 BCE
612 BCE
600 BCE
24. Founding of Rome (traditional date)
200s
753 BCE
447 BCE
476
25. Evidence of writing system appear in Oaxaca used by the Zapotec civilization
600 BCE
226
c. 600 BCE
722 BCE
26. Rise of Parthia (Ashk
321 BCE
544 BCE
753 BCE
250 BCE
27. Pandyan kingdom in SouthIndia
200s
404 BCE
c. 600 BCE
490 BCE
28. Year of the four emperors in Rome.
68
612 BCE
384 BCE
509 BCE
29. Pandyan kingdom in SouthIndia
c. 600 BCE
200s
476
326 BCE
30. Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela
479 BCE
331 BCE
500 BCE
335
31. Rise of the Median Empire
728 BCE
331 BCE
313
551 BCE
32. Roman conquest of Greece - see Roman Greece
612 BCE
600 BCE
146 BCE
399 BCE
33. Chera dynasty in SouthIndia
c. 200 BCE
c. 500 BCE
525 BCE
399 BCE
34. Rise of Parthia (Ashk
395
250 BCE
49 BCE
79
35. Democracy instituted atAthens
221 BCE
728 BCE
323 BCE
508 BCE
36. 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. 500 BCE
480 BCE
549 BCE
37. Sunga Empire founded.
185 BCE
220
490 BCE
6 BCE
38. Birth of Augustine of Hippo
354
202 BCE
68
326 BCE
39. Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.
321 BCE
238
305 BCE
429 BCE
40. Edict of Milan declared that the Roman Empire would be neutral toward religious worship.
6 BCE
728 BCE
313
400 BCE
41. Foundation of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great
550 BCE
49 BCE
354
305 BCE
42. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
49 BCE
404 BCE
220
70
43. Sunga Empire founded.
458 BCE
400 BCE
185 BCE
202 BCE
44. Ashoka the Great becomes the emperor of the Mauryan Empire
273 BCE
9
232 BCE
250 BCE
45. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon
323 BCE
529 BCE
c. 200 BCE
300 BCE
46. First Chinese domination of Vi?t Nam in the form of the Nanyue Kingdom.
200 BCE
111 BCE
49 BCE
549 BCE
47. First Chinese domination of Vi?t Nam in the form of the Nanyue Kingdom.
280
c. 500 BCE
111 BCE
321 BCE
48. Purported date of the accession of Jimmu - the mythical first Emperor of Japan
424 BCE
586 BCE
14
660 BCE
49. 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.
305 BCE
326 BCE
479 BCE
49 BCE
50. Expulsion of the last King of Rome - founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)
509 BCE
490 BCE
331 BCE
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