1. c. 3200 BCE Early Cycladic culture emerges
2. ★ c. 2600 BCE First Minoan palaces at Knossos
3. c. 1900 BCE Linear A writing appears
4. c. 1750 BCE Minoan palaces rebuilt after destruction
5. ★ c. 1628 BCE Thera erupts
6. ★ c. 1450 BCE Mycenaeans take control of Crete
7. c. 1400 BCE Mycenae reaches its height
8. c. 1250 BCE Lion Gate built at Mycenae
9. ★ c. 1200 BCE Traditional date of the Trojan War
10. ★ c. 1180 BCE Mycenaean palaces burn
11. c. 1150 BCE Linear B falls out of use
12. c. 1050 BCE Ionian migration to Asia Minor
13. c. 950 BCE Iron working spreads
14. ★ c. 800 BCE Greek alphabet adopted
15. ★ 776 BCE First Olympic Games
16. ★ c. 750 BCE Homeric epics take written form
17. c. 740 BCE Colonisation of Sicily and Italy begins
18. c. 650 BCE Age of the tyrants
19. 621 BCE Draco's law code at Athens
20. ★ 594 BCE Solon's reforms
21. 546 BCE Persia absorbs the Ionian cities
22. ★ 508 BCE Cleisthenes founds Athenian democracy
23. 499 BCE Ionian Revolt
24. ★ 490 BCE Battle of Marathon
25. ★ 480 BCE Thermopylae and Salamis
26. 479 BCE Battle of Plataea ends the invasion
27. 478 BCE Delian League formed
28. 462 BCE Ephialtes strips the Areopagus
29. ★ 461 BCE Pericles rises to leadership
30. ★ 447 BCE Parthenon begun
31. c. 441 BCE Sophocles stages Antigone
32. ★ 431 BCE Peloponnesian War begins
33. 430 BCE Plague strikes Athens
34. 415 BCE Sicilian Expedition sails
35. ★ 404 BCE Athens surrenders
36. ★ 399 BCE Socrates executed
37. ★ c. 387 BCE Plato founds the Academy
38. 371 BCE Thebes breaks Spartan power
39. ★ 338 BCE Philip II wins at Chaeronea
40. 335 BCE Aristotle founds the Lyceum
41. ★ 334 BCE Alexander invades Persia
42. 331 BCE Battle of Gaugamela
43. 331 BCE Alexandria founded
44. 326 BCE Alexander reaches the Indus
45. ★ 323 BCE Alexander dies at Babylon
46. ★ 306 BCE The Successor kingdoms form
47. c. 300 BCE Euclid writes the Elements
48. ★ c. 295 BCE Library of Alexandria founded
49. c. 250 BCE Archimedes at work in Syracuse
50. c. 240 BCE Eratosthenes measures the Earth
51. 197 BCE Rome defeats Macedon at Cynoscephalae
52. 168 BCE Battle of Pydna ends the Macedonian kingdom
53. ★ 146 BCE Rome sacks Corinth
54. 86 BCE Sulla storms Athens
55. ★ 31 BCE Battle of Actium
56. 27 BCE Achaea becomes a Roman province
57. c. 49 CE Paul preaches at Athens and Corinth
58. 124 CE Hadrian rebuilds Athens
59. 267 CE Herulian sack of Athens
60. c. 293 CE Greece under the Tetrarchy
61. ★ 330 CE Constantinople founded
62. 393 CE Olympic Games abolished
63. ★ 529 CE Justinian closes the Academy
64. c. 584 CE Slavic settlement in Greece
65. 726 CE Iconoclast controversy begins
66. c. 805 CE Byzantine reconquest of the Peloponnese
67. 963 CE Great Lavra founded on Mount Athos
68. 1018 CE Basil II completes the Bulgarian conquest
69. ★ 1054 CE East-West Schism
70. 1071 CE Defeat at Manzikert
71. 1082 CE Venice granted trading privileges
72. 1185 CE Normans sack Thessaloniki
73. ★ 1204 Fourth Crusade takes Constantinople
74. 1205 Frankish principalities established
75. 1210 Venice takes Crete
76. 1259 Byzantine victory at Pelagonia
77. 1261 Constantinople recovered
78. 1348 Black Death reaches Greece
79. 1349 Despotate of the Morea founded
80. 1387 Ottomans take Thessaloniki for the first time
81. 1449 Constantine XI crowned at Mystras
82. ★ 1453 Fall of Constantinople
83. 1460 Ottomans conquer the Morea
84. c. 1500 The millet system
85. 1571 Battle of Lepanto
86. c. 1600 Klephts take to the mountains
87. 1669 Venice loses Crete
88. ★ 1687 Parthenon explodes
89. 1770 Orlov Revolt
90. 1774 Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca
91. 1814 Filiki Eteria founded
92. ★ 1821 Greek War of Independence begins
93. 1822 Chios massacre
94. 1824 Byron dies at Missolonghi
95. ★ 1827 Battle of Navarino
96. ★ 1830 London Protocol recognises Greece
97. 1832 Otto of Bavaria becomes king
98. 1834 Athens becomes the capital
99. 1864 Britain cedes the Ionian Islands
100. 1893 Corinth Canal opens
101. 1896 First modern Olympics in Athens
102. ★ 1912 Balkan Wars begin
103. 1919 Greek landing at Smyrna
104. ★ 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe
105. ★ 1923 Population exchange with Turkey
106. 1924 Second Hellenic Republic declared
107. 1936 Metaxas dictatorship
108. ★ 28 October 1940 Greece refuses Mussolini's ultimatum
109. ★ 1941 German invasion and occupation
110. ★ 1943 Destruction of Greek Jewry
111. 1944 Liberation and the Dekemvriana
112. ★ 1946 Civil War begins
113. 1952 Greece joins NATO
114. ★ 21 April 1967 Colonels seize power
115. 17 November 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising
116. ★ 1974 Junta falls and the republic returns
117. ★ 1981 Greece joins the European Community
118. 2001 Greece adopts the euro
119. 2004 Athens hosts the Olympics
120. ★ 2010 Debt crisis and bailout
121. July 2015 Bailout referendum and capital controls
122. 2018 Greece exits the bailout programs