HELLENISTIC TIMELINE
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Updated: 24 Jun 2018
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Created byJulia Miryam-Chavah Schenzinger
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323 BCE: Alexander the Great died323-322 BCE: Lamian War (Hellenic War).317 BCE: Philip III of Macedonia assassinated301 BCE: Battle of Ipsus. Division of the empire into 4 parts300 BCE: Euclid founds mathematical school in Athens282 BCE: Archimedes studies in Alexandria281 BCE: Achaean League. Seleucus assassinated280 - 277 BCE: Celtic invasions.267 - 262 BCE: Chremonidean War214 - 205 BCE: First Macedonian War202 - 196 BCE: Roman intervention in Greek affairs192 - 188 BCE: Seleucid War187 - 167 BCE: Macedonian War149 BCE: Greece becomes a Roman province148 BCE: Rome sacks Corinth148 BCE: Macedonia becomes a Roman province330 BCE - 64 BCE: Hellenistic Period in Byblosc. 325 BCE - c. 320 BCE: Greek rule in Gandhara, ending some time after the death of Alexander the Great312 BCE: Seleucos conquers Babylon and founds the Seleucid dynasty309 BCE - 308 BCE: Agathocles of Syracuse successfuly campaigns in North Africa defeating Carthaginian armies and taking Utica and Hippacra306 BCE: Demetrius I defeats Ptolemy’s fleet at Salamis, off the coast of Cyprus285 BCE - 282 BCE: Rome defeats the Celts in Italy. Rome's dominance in central Italy is secured279 BCE: Celts invade Thrace and Anatolia146 BCE: End of the Third Punic War. Carthage is destroyed and its lands become the Roman province Africa129 BCE: Parthians conquer Mesopotamia. The Silk Road to China is now controlled by the Parthians58 BCE - 51 BCE: Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul37 BCE: Herod the Great is installed as King of Judaea. Rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalemc. 30 BCE - c. 19 BCE: Roman poet Virgil writes his Aeneid
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