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Important dates from Greek & Roman history
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09/22/2010

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Bronze Age in Greece
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3300-1100 BCE
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Minoan civilization reaches its height on Crete (Knossos)
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2000-1450 BCE
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Mycenaean civilization reaches its height in mainland Greece
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1450-1100 BCE
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Presumed date of the Trojan War
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12th c. BCE
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Dark Age in Greece
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1100-750 BCE
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Archaic Period in Greece: emergence of city-states, including Athens
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750-510 BCE
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Presumed date of the first Olympic games
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776 BCE
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Homeric composition of Iliad and Odyssey
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8th c. BCE
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Hesiod composes his Theogony, Works and Days, and other poems
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8th c. BCE
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The law-giver Solon in Athens
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594 BCE
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Thales founded a school of philosophy in Miletus
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585 BCE
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The tyrant Peisistratus in Athens: festivals, temples flourish
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561-527 BCE
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Pythagoras in Croton
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530 BCE
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Athens drives out the last tyrant - establishment of democracy
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508 BCE
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War between Athens and Persia
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490-479 BCE
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Classical Period in Greece
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500-323 BCE
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Athens' Golden Age: Greek drama, The Parthenon built under Pericles
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5th c. BCE
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Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta
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431-404 BCE
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Socrates condemned to death for impiety and corrupting the youth. His teachings survive in the works of his student, Plato
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399 BCE
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Rule of Alexander the Great
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336-323 BCE
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Hellenistic Period in Greece
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323- BCE
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The Greek city-states become part of the Roman Empire
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146 BCE
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Traditional date of the founding of Rome by Romulus, its 1st king
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753 BCE
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Monarchy in Rome, including Numa Pompilius
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753-509 BCE
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The tyrant Tarquin the Proud exiled from Rome: beginning the Republic
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509 BCE
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Early Republic/Middle Republic with expansion to Italy and beyond
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509-133 BCE
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Late Republic
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133-44 BCE
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Julius Caesar
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100-44 BCE
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Roman Empire
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31 BCE-476 CE
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battle of Actium: Augustus becomes Rome's first emperor (Empire)
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31 BCE
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Augustus holds the Saecular Games
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17 BCE
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Augustus becomes Pontifex Maximus
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12 BCE
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Birth of Jesus
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3 BCE
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Death of Augustus
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14 CE
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Crucifixion of Jesus
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30 CE
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Paul's missionary journeys ending in his martyrdom
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46-67 CE
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Christians blamed for fire in Rome by the Emperor Nero
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64 CE
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Fall of Jerusalem: end of the Temple, Judaea becomes part of the Roman Empire
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66 CE
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Apuleius writes Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass) referring to a conversion to Isis
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2nd c. CE
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Christians occasionally persecuted in the Roman Empire
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1st and 2nd c. CE
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First large-scale persecution of Christians under the emperor Decius
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251-253 CE
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The emperor Diocletian orders burning of Christian books and churches
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303 CE
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Battle of the Milvian Bridge: Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity
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312 CE
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the so-called Edict of Milan establishes official toleration of Christianity
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313 CE
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Council of Nicea: Nicene Creed
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325 CE
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The first list including all 27 books of the New Testament
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367 CE
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The bishop and writer Augustine active as a Christian
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386-434 CE
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The fall of the Western Roman Empire
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476 CE
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