TIMELINE/KEY EVENTS
- 1881-1893 BC: Corinth Canal built
- 1821-1829 BC: Greece becomes Independant
- 1715 BC: Turks captures Palam idi fortress
- 1687 BC: Roof blown off Acropolis
- 1184 BC: Troy falls to Mycenae
- 1180 BC: The Trojan War
- 776 BC: First recorded Olympic Games
- 730 BC: Homer writes his epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey
- 506 BC: Cleisthenes introduces the first ever democracy to Athens
- 490 BC: The Battle of Marathon
- 480 BC: The Battle of Thermopylae
- 399 BC: The catapult was built
- 431 BC: Peloponnesian War
- 429 BC: Pericles dies
- 415 BC: Syracuse with the help from Sparta repels an invasion from Athens
- 399 BC: Socrates is tired, which caused him to commit suicide
- 375 BC: Plato writes "Republic"
- 373 BC: Temple of Apollo at Delphi is destroyed
- 367 BC: Aristotle enters the Academy of Plato
- 336-323 BC: Alexander the Great is king of Macedon
- 212 BC: Archimedes is killed when the Romans invade Syracuse