Red = War & Battles, Magenta = Birth or Death, Orange = Drama & Philosophy, Royal Blue = Revolt, Stasis or Disaster, Green = Truce, Alliance or Surrender

Year (BC)

  1. 480
  2. 479
  3. 478/7
  4. 476
  5. 472
  6. 467
  7. 465
  8. 465- 464
  9. 460- 454
  10. 460 - 446
  11. c.459/ 8
  12. 456
  13. 454
  14. 451
  15. 451
  16. 450- 449
  17. 447- 446
  18. 446
  19. 446
  20. 445
  21. 442
  22. 440
  23. 435
  24. 433
  25. 432
  26. 431
  27. 431- 421
  28. 430
  29. 430
  30. 430- 429
  31. 429
  32. 429
  33. 428
  34. 427
  35. 427
  36. 427
  37. 427
  38. 425/6
  39. 425
  40. 425
  41. 424
  42. 424

Event(s)

  1. Battle of Salamis (c. birth of Euripides)
  2. Battle of Plataea: end of Persian War, defeated by Hellenic coalition
  3. Delian League formed, Athens apointed leader of it
  4. Phrynichus' Phoenician Women (?)
  5. Aeschylus' Persian Women
  6. Athens defeats the Persians at the river Eurymedon,Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes
  7. Athenians and their allies are seriosuly defeated by the Thracians at Drabescus
  8. The Athenians crush a revolt on Thasos
  9. Athenians send an expedition to Egypt support for a revolt against Persia, it ended it failure
  10. 1st Peloponnesian War
  11. Birth of Thucydides; 458, Aeschylus' Oresteia
  12. Death of Aeschylus
  13. Treasury of the Delian Leauge is moved to Athens from Delos; the start of a tribute paying, ship providing Athenian empire
  14. Five-year truce between the Athenians and the Spartans
  15. The Athenians defeat the Persians in Cyprus
  16. The Peace of Callias (between Athens and Persia)
  17. King Pleistonax leads a Spartan army in an invasion of Attica, but turns back at Eleusis
  18. Euboea and Megara revolt from Athens
  19. Thirty Years' Peace (between Athens and Sparta)
  20. c. Birth of Aristophanes
  21. Sophocles' Antigone (?)
  22. Samos revolts from Athens, Pericles puts it down, Byzantium also revolts
  23. War breaks out between Corcyra and Corinth
  24. Alliance between Athens and Corcyra
  25. Potidea revolts from Athens, the town is besieged by Athens
  26. Thebes invades Plateae, leads to outright war and the beginning of the 2nd Peloponnesian War; Euripides' Medea
  27. The Archidamian War
  28. Peloponnesian forces invade Attica
  29. First outbreak of Plague in Athens
  30. Potidea falls to Athens, ending the years long siege that started in 432
  31. Death of Pericles
  32. Peloponnesian forces attack Plataea
  33. Lesbos revolts form the Athenian Empire, Athenians besiege Mytilene, Euripides' Hippolytus
  34. 2 debates in the Athenian assembly on Mytilene, the 2nd is Thucydides' 'Mytilene Debate', 1000 rebel leaders are killed
  35. Plataea surrenders to Sparta, the Spartans execute the men and enslave the women
  36. Civil War in Corcyra
  37. Athens sends forces to Sicily, Gorgias visits Athens as part of an embassy from Leontini
  38. The Plague returns
  39. Athens sends reinforcements to Sicily, but a delay in the fleet results in it being deployed against Sparta at Pylos
  40. Pylos campaign, under Cleon's command Athens defeat Sparta at Pylos and take prisoners, Aristophanes' Acharnians
  41. Athenian forces return from Sicily and the generals are put on trial, Aristophanes' Knights
  42. Brasidas takes Amphipolis, Thucydides failed to prevent him and is exiled