Athenian Law
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632: Cylon fails to establish tyranny in Athens |
| 621/20: Drakon’s laws |
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| 594/93: Solon’s reforms |
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546: Peisistratos establishes tyranny |
| 508/7: Cleisthenes’ reforms; establishment of democracy |
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490: Battle of Marathon |
| 487/6: Nine archons henceforth chosen by lot |
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480-79: Xerxes’ invasion; battles of Thermopylae, Artimisium; Salamis and Plataea |
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478: Creation of Delian League |
| 462: Ephialtes’ reforms (reduced powers of Areiopagus) |
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| 451/0: Perikles’s citizenship law |
c. 450: Athenians and Persians make peace |
| 440’s: Introduction of jury pay by Perikles |
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431: beginning of Peloponnesian War (431-404) |
| c. 430: Earliest fragments of speeches composed by logographer (Antiphon) |
429: Death of Perikles |
| c. 425: Cleon raises jury pay two obols per day |
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415-413: Sicilian Expedition |
| 415: First attested graphê paranomôn |
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| 411: Trial and death of Antiphon |
411: Oligarchic revolution of the 400 |
| 410: Codification Board (anagrapheis tôn nomôn) begins work, led by Nikomachus |
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| 409/8: Reinscription of Drakon’s homocide law |
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| 404: Reinscription of laws completed |
404: Battle of Aegispotamoi (defeat of Athens) |
| 403/2: Teisamenos’ decree; ratification of lawcode; establishment of nomothetai supervising legislation; nomoi and psêphsimata distinguished |
403: Thirty tyrants in Athens; democracy restored same year |
| 399: Trial of Socrates |
395-387: Cornithian War |
| 385/84: Birth of Demosthenes |
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| 378/7: Introduction of pinakia for jury selection. |
377: Establishment of Second Athenian Naval Confederacy |
| c. 375: Witnesses no longer give oral testimony in court; instead, clerk henceforth reads statements given in advance of trial. |
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371-362: Theban hegemony |
| 366: Demosthenes prosecutes guardians |
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356: Beginning of Sacred War |
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348: Philip captures of Olynthus |
| 345: Against Timarkhos trial (Aes. 1) |
346: End of Sacred War |
| 343: On the False Embassy trial (Dem. 19; Aes. 2) |
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338: Battle of Chaeronia; end of Athenian autonomy |
| 330: On the Crown trial (Aes. 3; Dem. 18) |
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| 322: Demosthenes convicted in Harpalos affair. |
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