The following is an extensive chronology of events:
B.C.E. (before common era)

70,000	Human habitation in Greece
9000	Neolithic Age in Crete
c.6000	Neolithic site at Nea Nikomedheia in Macedonia
c.5500	Drakhmani(Elateia) site in Central Greece
3400-3000	Early Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic
3400-2100	Neolithic Age in Thessaly
3400-1200	Bronze Age in Crete
3000	Copper mined in Cyprus
2870	First known settlement at Troy
2350-2100	Middle Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic
2200-1200	Bronze Age in Cyprus
2100-1950	First series of Cretan palaces
2100-1600	Chalcolithic Age in Thessaly
1900	Transition from Early to Middle Helladic phase of Bronze Age. Change of population on Continental Greece, 'Minyan' pottery, Greek-speakers. Destruction of first series of Cretan palaces
1600-1200	Late Minoan, Helladic, Cycladic; second series of Cretan palaces
1600-1200	Bronze Age in Thessaly
1582	Foundation of Athens by Cecrops
1480-1450	Occupation of Knossos by Myceneans
1450-1400	Destruction of second series of Cretan palaces
1433	Deucalion and the Flood
1400	Knossos documents in language earlier than Homeric Greek
1400-1200	Palaces of Tiryns and Mycenae
c.1313	Foundation of Thebes by Cadmus
1300	Troy VI wrecked probably by earthquake
1300-1100	Age of Achaean domination in Greece
c.1283	Coming of Pelops into Elis
1260	Fall of Troy VIIa
c.1261-1209	Heracles
1250	Theseus at Athens; Oedipus at Thebes; Minos and Daedalus at Cnossus
1250-1183	"Sixth city" of Troy; age of the Homeric heroes
c.1225	Voyage of the Argonauts
c.1213	War of the Seven against Thebes
c.1200	Accession of Agamemnon
c.1192-1183	Siege of Troy
1184	Fall of Troy
c.1176	Accession of Orestes
c.1104	Dorian invasion of Greece
1100-850	Aeolian and Ionian migrations
1000	Temple of Hera at Olympia
800-700	Composition of Iliad and Odyssey and the adoption of the alphabet by the Greeks from the Phoenicians
840	Probable period of Homer
c.776	First Olympic Games
775	Greeks develop a phonetic alphabet, written from left to right
770	Sinope and Cumae
757-6	Cyzicus and Trapezus
752	First decennial archons
750-650	Greeks settle Thracian peninsula
750-594	Age of the aristocracies
c.750	Period of Hesiod
735	Naxos (Sicily)
734	Corcyra and Syracuse
730-29	Rhegium, Leontini, Catana
725-05	First Messenian War
725	Coinage in Lydia and Ionia
721	Sybaris
710	Crotona
705	Taras
700	Poseidonia; Beginnings of Greek architecture in stone
683	First annual archons at Athens
680	Pheidon dictator at Argos; earliest state coinage in Greece
676	Orthagoras dictator at Sicyon
670	Terpander of Lesbos; Archilochus of Paros; Homeric hymns to Apollo and Demeter
660	Laws of Zaleucus at Locri
658	Byzantium
654	Kampsacus
655-25	Cypeslus dictator at Corinth
651	Selinus
650	Abdera and Olbia
648	Himera; Myron dictator at Sicyon
640-31	Second Messenian War; Tyrtaeus, poet
c.630	Laws of Lycurgus at Sparta
630	Cyrene
615	Abydos
625-585	Periander dictator at Corinth
620	Laws of Draco at Athens
615	Thrasybulus dictator at Miletus
610	Laws of Charondas at Catana
600	Naucratis; Massalia (Marseilles); Cleisthenes dictator at Sicyon, Pittacus at Mytilene; Sappho and Alcaeus, poets of Lesbos; Thales of Miletus, philosopher; Alcman, poet at Sparta; Rise of sculpture
595	First Sacred War
594	Laws of Solon at Athens
590	Age of the Seven Wise Men; rise of the Amphictyonic League and Orphism, second Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
582	First Pythian and Isthmian games; the Acropolis statues and the "Apollos"
580	Acragas; Aesop of Samos, fabulist
576	First Nemean games
570	Phalaris dictator at Acragas;Stesichorus of Himera, poet; Anaximander of Miletus, philosopher
566	First Panathenaic games
561-60	First dictatorship of Peisistratus
560-46	Croesus of Lydia subjugates Ionia
558	Carthage conquers Sicily and Corsica
550	Emporium (Spain)
535	Elea (Italy)
546-27	Second dictatorship of Peisistratus
545	Persia subjugates Ionia
544	Anaximenes of Miletus, philosopher
540	Hipponax of Ephesus, poet
530	In Greece, a library
535-15	Polycrates dictator of Samos; Theodorus of Samos, artist, Anacreon of Teos, poet
534	Thespis establishes drama at Athens
530	Theognis of Megara, poet
529-00	Pythagoras, philosopher at Crotona
527-10	Hippias dictator at Athens
520	Olympieum begun at Athens
517	Simonides of Ceos, poet
514	Conspiracy of Harmodius and Aristogeiton
511	Phrynichus of Athens, dramatist
510	Destruction of Sybaris by Crotona
507	Cleisthenes extends democracy at Athens
500	Hecataeus of Miletus, geographer
499	Ionia revolts; Aeschylus' first play
497	Ionian Greeks burn Sardis
494	Persians defeat Ionian at Lade
493	Themistocles archon at Athens
490	Marathon; temple of Aphaea at Aegina
489	Aristides archon; trial of Miltiades
488-72	Theron dictator at Acragas
487	First selection of archons by lot
485-78	Gelon dictator at Syracuse
485	Epicharmus establishes comedy at Syracuse
482	Ostacism of Aristides
480	Battles of Aremisium, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Himera; Ageladas of Argos, sculptor
479	Battles of Plataea and Mycale
478	Pindar of Thebes, poet
478-67	Hieron I dictator at Syracuse
478	Pythagoras of Rhegium, sculptor
477	Delian Confederacy founded
472	Polygnotus, painter; Aechylus' Persae
469	Birth of Socrates
468	Cimon defeats Persians at the Eurymedon; first contest between Aeschylus and Sophocles
467	Bacchylides of Ceos, poet; Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes
467-54	Helot revolt; siege of Ithome
463-31	Public career of Pericles
462	Ephialtes limits the Areopagus; pay for jurors; Anaxagoras at Athens
461	Cimon ostracized; Ephialtes killed
460	Empedocles of Acragas, philosopher; Aeschylus' Promotheus Bound
459-54	Athenian expedition to Egypt fails
458	Aeschylus' Oresteia; the Long Walls
456	Temple of Zeus at Olympia; Paeonius of Mende, sculptor
454	Delian treasury removed to Athens
450	Zeno of Elea, philosopher; Hippocrates of Chios, matematician; Callimachus develops the Corinthian order; Philolaus of Thebes, astronomer
448	Peace of Callias with Persia
447-31	The Parthenon
445	Leucippus of Abdera, philosopher
443	Herodotus of Halicarnassus, historian joins colonists founding Thurii (Italy); Gorgias of Leontini, Sophist
442	Sophocles' Antigone; Myron of Eleutherae, sculptor
440	Protagoras of Abdera, Sophist
438	Pheidias' Athene Parthenos; Euripides' Alcestis
437	The Propylaea
435-34	War between Corinth and Corcyra
433	Alliance of Athens and Corcyra
432	Revolt of Potidaea; trials of Aspasia, Pheidias, and Anaxagoras
431-04	Peloponnesian War
431-24	Euripides' Medea, Andromache, and Hecuba; Sophocles' Electra
430	Plague at Athens; trial of Pericles
429	Death of Pericles; Cleon in power; Sophocles' Oediups the King
428	Revolt of Mytilene; Euripides' Hippolytus; death of Anaxagoras
427	Embassy of Gorias at Athens; Prodicus and Hippias, Sophists
425	Siege of Sphacteria; Aristophanes' Acharnians
424	Brasidas takes Amphipolis; exile of Thucydides, historian; Aristophanes' Knights
423	Aristophanes' Clouds; Zeuxis of Heraclea and Parrhasius of Ephesus, painters
422	Aristophanes' Wasps; death of Cleon and Brasidas
421	Peace of Nicias; Aristophanes' Peace
420	Hippocrates of Cos, physician; Democritus of Abdera, philosopher; Polycleitus of Sicyon, sculptor
420-04	The Erechtheum
419	Lysias, orator
418	Spartan victory at Mantinea; Euripides' Ion
416	Massacre at Melos; Euripides' Electra
415-13	Athenian expedition to Syracuse
415	Mutilation of the Hermae; disgrace of Alcibiades; Euripides' Trojan Women
414	Siege of Syracuse; Aristophanes' Birds
413	Athenian defeat at Syracuse; Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris
412	Euripides' Helen and Andromeda
411	Revolt of the Four hundred; Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae
410	Restoration of the democrary; victory of Alcibiades at Cyzicus
408	Timotheus of Miletus, poet and musician; Euripides' Orestes
406	Athenian victory at Arginusae; deaths of Euripides and Sophocles; Euripides' Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis
405-367	Dionysius I dictator at Syracuse
405	Spartan victory at Aegospotami; Aristophanes' Frogs
404	End of the Peloponnesian War; rule of the Thirty at Athens
403	Restoration of the democracy
401	Defeat of Cyrus II at Cunaxa; retreat of Xenophon's Ten Thousand; Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus
399	Trial and death of Socrates
399-60	Agesilaus king at Sparta
397	War between Syracuse and Carthage
396	Aristippus of Cyrene and Antisthenes of Athens, philosophers
395	Athens rebuilds the Long Walls
394	Battles of Coronea and Cnidus
c.393	Plato's Apology; Xenophon's Memorabilia; Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae
391-87	Dionysius subjugates south Italy
391	Isocrates opens his school
390	Evagoras Hellenizes Cyprus
387	Peace of Antalcidas, or King's Peace; Plato visits Archytas of Taras, mathematician, and Dionysius I
386	Plato founds the Academy
383	Spartans occupy Cadmeia at Thebes
380	Isocrates' Panegyricus
379	Pelopidas and Melon liberate Thebes
378-54	Second Athenian Empire
375	Theaeterus, mathematician
372	Diogenes of Sinope, philosopher
371	Epaminodas victorious at Leuctra
370	Diocles of Euboea, embryologist; Eudoxus of Cnidus, astronomer
367-57	Dionysius II dictator at Syracuse; Dion plans reforms
357	Plato visits Dionysius II
362	Epaninondas wins and dies at Mantinea
361	Plato's third visit to Syracuse
360	Praxiteles of Athens and Scopas of Paros, sculptors; Ephorus of Cyme and Theopompus of Chios, historians
359	Philip II regent in Macedonia
357-46	War between Athens and Macedonia
357-46	Exile of Dionysius II
356-46	Second Sacred War
356	Birth of Alexander the Great; burning of the second temple at Ephesus; Isocrates' On the Peace
355	Isocrates' Areopagiticus
354	Assissination of Dion
353-49	The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
351	Demosthenes' Philippic I
349	Philip attacks Olynthus; Demosthenes' Olynthiacs I and II
348	Heracleides of Pontus, astonomer; Speusippus succeeds Plato as head of the Academy
346	Demosthenes' On the Peace; Isocrates' Letter to Philip
344	Timoleon rescues Syracuse; Demosthenes' Philippic II
343	Trial and acquittal of Aeschines
342-38	Aristotle tutor of Alexander
340	Timoleon defeats the Carthaginians
338	Philip defeats Athenians at Chaeronea; death of Isocrates
336	Assassination of Philip; accession of Alexander and Darius III
335	Alexander burns down Thebes, and begins his Persian campaigns
334	Aristotle opens the Lyceum; battle of the Granicus; choragic monument of Lysicrates
333	Battle Issus
332	Siege and capture of Tyre; surrender of Jerusalem; foundation of Alexandria
331	Battle of Gaugamela (Arbela); Alexander at Babylon and Susa
330	Apelles of Sicyon, painter; Lysippus of Argos, sculptor; Aeschines' Against Ctesiphon; Demosthenes' On the Crown
329-8	Alexander indvades central Asia
327	Deaths of Cleitus and Callisthenes
327-5	Alexander in India
325	Voyage of Nearchus
324	Exile of Demosthenes
323	Death of Alexander; Lamian War
322	Deaths of Aristotle, Demosthenes, and Diogenes
269-41	Arcesilaus head of the Middle Academy
266-61	Chremonidean War
261	Antigonus II takes Athens
261-47	Antiochus II (Theos) Seleucid emperor
261-32	Cleanthes head of the Stoa
260	Herodas of Cos, poet
258	Erasistratus of Ceos, physiologist
257-180	Aristophanes of Byzantium, philologist
251	Aratus of Sicyon frees his city
250	Arsaces founds kingdom of Parthia; the Laocoon; Manetho, Egyptian historian; Lycophron of Chalcis, poet
247	Archimedes of Syracuse, scientist
247-26	Seleucus II (Callinicus)
246-21	Ptolemy II (Euergetes I)
246	Aratus leads Achaean League against Macedonia
242	Agis IV attempts reforms in Sparta
240	Apollonius of Rhodes, poet
239-29	Demetrius II King of Macedonia
235-197	Attalus I establishes kingdom of Pergamum
235-195	Eratosthenes librarian at Alexandria
232-07	Chrysippus head of the Stoa
229	Aratus frees Athens
229-21	Antigonus III (Doson) King of Macedonia
226-24	Reforms of Cleomenes III in Sparta
226-23	Seleucus III (Soter)
225	Earthquake destroys Rhodes
223-187	Antiochus III (the Great) Seleucid emperor
221	Antigonus III defeats Cleomenes III at Sellasia
221-179	Philip V King of Macedonia
221-03	Ptolemy IV (Philopator)
220	Apollonius of Perga, mathematician
217	Ptolemy IV defeats Antiochus III at Raphia
215	Alliance of Philip V and Hannibal
214-05	First Macedonian War with Rome
212	Marcellus takes Syracuse; death of Archimedes
210	Sicily becomes a Roman province
208	Zeno of Tarsus, philosopher
207	Revolution of Nabis in Sparta
205	Egypt a Roman protectorate
203-181	Ptolemy V (Epiphanes)
200-197	Second Macedonian War
200	Diogenes of Seleucia, philosopher
197	Battle of Cynoscephalae
197-160	Zenith of Pergamum under Eumenes II
196	Flamininus proclaims freedom of Greece; foundation of Pergamene Library
195-80	Aristophanes of Byzantium librarian at Alexandria
190	The Farnese Bull
189	Romans defeat Antiochus III at Magnesia
188	Philopoemen abolishes Lycurgean constitution in Sparta
187-75	Seleucus IV (Philopator)
181-45	Ptolemy VI (Philometor)
180	Great altar of Pergamum; Aristarchus of Samothrace librarian at Alexandria
179-68	Perseus King of Macedonia
175-63	Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) Seleucid emperor
175-38	Mithradates I King of Parthia
174	Antiochus IV rebuilds Olympieum
173	Carneades head of New Academy
171-68	Third Macedonian War
168	Aemilius Paullus defeats Perseus at Pydna; Antiochus IV despoils the Temple at Jerusalem
167	Deportation of the Achaeans, including Polybius, historian
166	First rising of the Maccabees; Book of Daniel
165	Judas Maccabee restores the Temple services
163-62	Antiochus V (Eupator) Seleucid emperor
162-50	Demetrius I (Soter) Seleucid emperor
161	Judas Maccabee makes treaty with Rome
160	Defeat and death of Judas Maccabee
160-39	Attalus II King of Pergamum
157	Judea becomes an independent priestly state
155	Carneades in Rome
150-45	Alexander Balas, Seleucid emperor
150	Hipparchus of Nicaea and Seleucus of Seleucia, astronomers; Moschus of Smyrna, poet
146	Mummius sacks Corinth; Greece and Macedonia become a province of Rome