About 8500-3350 BCE Neolithic Era (the latter part of the Stone Age)
About 4500-3200 BCE Settlement of Strophilas on Andros
About 3300-2100 BCE Early Helladic period (Greek mainland)
About 3200-2000 BCE Early Minoan period (Crete)
About 3000-1700 BCE Settlement of Plaka on Andros
About 3200-1050 BCE Bronze Age
About 2300 BCE Immigrants from Anatolia (modern Turkey) bring bronze-working skills to Greece
About 2100-1600 BCE Middle Minoan period (Crete)
About 2150-1750 BCE The construction of the first palace at Knossos, Crete, and the beginning of the flourishing of the Minoan civilisation
About 2000-1550 BCE Middle Helladic period (Greek mainland)
About 1600 BCE Mount Thera erupts on the Aegean island of Santorini, causing widespread devastation. The Minoan civilisation of Crete is largely destroyed
About 1600-1050 BCE Late Minoan period (Crete)
About 1550-1050 BCE Late Helladic (AKA Mycenaean) period (Greek mainland)
About 1450 BCE Mycenaeans from the Greek mainland conquer Crete
About 1200 BCE Mycenaean palatial civilisation on the Greek mainland collapses.
About 1200 BCE Destruction of Troy (conventional date)
About 1100-1025 BCE Dark Ages
About 1100-700 BCE Early Iron Age
About 1025-900 BCE Protogeometric style
About 900 BCE Sparta is founded in the southern Peloponnese region of Greece.
About 900-700 BCE Geometric style
About 900-700 Settlement of Zagora on Andros
776 BCE First Panhellenic games held at Olympia (Olympic Games)
About 700 BCE Written recording by Homer of earlier oral epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey
About 720-600 BCE Orientalising period
About 690 BCE Black-figure technique at Corinth begins
About 660 BCE Beginning of monumental sculpture
About 660-480 BCE Archaic period
About 600 BCE Beginning of Attic black-figure technique
596 or 582 BCE First Panhellenic games held at Delphi (Pythian Games)
582-579 BCE First Panhellenic games held at Isthmia (Isthmian Games)
About 580 BCE First coins invented in Lydia (western Turkey)
About 580 BCE Construction of the temple of Hera at Olympia
573 BCE First Panhellenic games held at Nemea (Nemean Games)
About 530 BCE Beginning of Attic red-figure technique
490 BCE Greek victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon
490-479 BCE Persian Wars
480 BCE Greek victory over the Persians at Salamis
About 480-323 BCE Classical period
About 456 BCE Temple of Zeus at Olympia finished (cult statue of Zeus completed before 431 BCE)
447-432 BCE Building of the Parthenon, designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates with decoration by Pheidias
431-404 BCE Peloponnesian Wars between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies
338 BCE Defeat of Athens and Thebes by Philip II of Macedonia at battle of Chaironea
323-27 BCE Hellenistic period (begins on death of Alexander the Great)
146 BCE Rome effectively annexed southern Greece under the name of Achaia