Sparta - The Political History

Chronological Listing

B.C.
c. 750 - Sparta conquers Amyclae
730 - 710 - Sparta conquers Messenia
650 - Sparta puts down Messenian revolt
560-50 - War with Tegea
550 - Conquest of Thyreatis
525 - Sparta attacks Samos
510 - Fall of the Pisistratid tyranny.
Spartans send force to Athens.
508-7 - Spartans intervene in Athens at request of Isagoras
Spartan force under Cleomenes blockaded in Acropolis.
480 (August) - Spartan force of 300, under Leonidas, defends
pass at Thermopylae against Persians
479 (August) - Spartan-led force defeats Persians at Plataea
478-476 - Athens defies Sparta to complete the "Long Walls"
477 - Foundation of Confederacy of Delos
464 - Earthquake at Sparta; revolt of helots
Spartan force of 300 wiped out
Helots take refuge in Ithome
464-459 - Siege of Ithome
451 Five years' Truce between Athens and Peloponnesians
447 - Construction of the Parthenon begins
446-5 - Thirty years' peace between Athens and Peloponnesians
432 - Start of the Peloponnesian War
424 - Sparta secretly executes 2,000 helots, lured by promises of a parade in honor of their military service to Sparta
421 - Peace of Nicias ends first phase of Peloponnesian War
415 - Athenian expedition to Sicily
405 - Spartan naval forces under Lysander blockade Athens
404 - Athens surrenders
Long Walls pulled down
The "Thirty" assume control of Athenian government
403 - Spartans maintain garrison in Athens
Fall of the Thirty
398 - Sparta sends embassy to Susa
397 - Conspiracy of Cinadon in Sparta
Krpyteia arrest and execute members of "Inferiors" for plot
395 - Athens begins to rebuild the Long Walls
395-4 - Athens joins confederation against Sparta
393 - Completion of Long Walls
382 - Spartans seize citadel at Thebes
Install garrison of 1500
379-8 - Thebans recapture citadel and expel garrison
378-7 - Spartan king Agesilaus leads expeditions into Boeotia
Expeditions turned back by Thebans
377-373 - Thebans expel Spartan garrisons from Boeotian cities
374 - Sparta and Athens agree to peace
371 - Peace of Callias (June)
Spartan army defeated at battle of Leuctra (July)
370-69 - Boeotians, led by Epaminondas, invade Peloponnese
369 - Messene founded
Boeotians invade Peloponnese for second time, recognize Messenia