| Dates | Events | |
| 776 BC | Greeks win the Battle of Marathon | |
| 750 - 700 BC | Alexander becomes ruler of Greece | |
| 490 BC | Greece becomes part of the Roman Empire | |
| 480 BC | Greek alphabet created and spread around the Greek-speaking world | |
| 431 BC | Start of the Great Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta | |
| 336 BC | Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis | |
| 331 BC | The first recorded Olympic Games | |
| 323 BC | Egypt conquered by the Greeks | |
| 146 BC | Death of Alexander the Great |