Some Really Important Dates
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Jump to navigationJump to search| 1500bc | Aryan invasion |
| 800bc | Vedas written |
| 800-500bc | Early Upanisads written |
| 586bc | Jerusalem conquered by Babylonians |
| 551-479 bc | Confucius |
| 550-400?? bc | Laozi |
| 500 bc | Mahabarata |
| 563-483bc | Buddha |
| 520-497 bc | Pythagoras |
| 540-468 bc | Mahavira |
| 2220 bc | Creatan Minoan Culture |
| 1000 bc | Destruction of Mycenean Palace Culture |
| 900-800 bc | revival of population on Peloponesis, use of iron in tools and weapons. |
| 750 bc | Greek city states growth. |
| 750-550 bc | period of Greek colonization. |
| 480 bc | Xerxes, ruler of Persia attacks at Thermopylae and Salamis |
| 477 bc | Athens governs Delian League |
| 495-429, | Pericles. |
| 450-429, | Period of "Periclean Athens" - democratic and legal reforms. great playwrights such as: Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides |
| 431-404, | Peloponnesian War, starting with Spartan invasion of Attica, ending with Athens surrender in 404 |
| 415 | Alcibiades defects to Sparta. |
| 404 | Athens surrenders to Sparta. |
| 404-403, | Reign of Terror in Athens, 30 Tyrants. |
| 399, | Socrates trial. |
| 480 | Battle of Thermopylae |
| 469-399 | Socrates |
| 427-347 | Plato |
| 412-324 | Diogenes of Sinope |
| 384-322 | Aristotle |
| 365-290 | Chuang-Tzu |
| 356-323 | Alexander the Great |
| 341-270 | Epicurus |
| 333-262 | Zeno of Citium (Stoic) |
| 279-206 bc | Chrysippus (Stoic) |
| 304-232 | Ashoka the Great |
| 264-149 | Punic Wars |
| 250 | Third Buddhist Council |
| 200-100bc | Yoga Sutras written by Patanjali |
| 106-46 | Cicero |
| 70bc - 19 | Virgil |
| 65bc - 8 | Horace |
| 35bc - 45ad | Philo of Alexandria |
| 0-33 | Jesus |
| 3-65 | Seneca |
| 50-120 ad | Epictetus |
| 121-180 | Marcus Aurelius |
| 354-430 | Augustine |
| 570-632 | Muhammed |
| 1491-1556 | Ignatius of Loyola |
