Corinth Timeline

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c. 5000 BCE

Earliest Neolithic finds in the Corinth area.
c. 750 BCE

The Bacchiadae take power in Corinth.
733 BCE

Corinth founds the colony of Syracuse in Sicily.
c. 733 BCE

Traditional date when Corinth founds a colony on Corcyra.
c. 700 BCE

Corinthians adopt the trireme from the Phoenicians.
660 BCE

Corcyra wins a naval battle against their founding city of Corinth.
c. 657 BCE - 585 BCE

The Kypselidai are tyrants of Corinth.
c. 627 BCE - c. 587 BCE

Periander is tyrant at Corinth.
c. 625 BCE

Black-figure pottery created in Corinth.
c. 625 BCE - 600 BCE

The orientalizing style of Greek pottery becomes popular in Corinth.
c. 620 BCE - 600 BCE

Proto-corinthian reaches its zenith in artistic quality producing the best pottery in Greece.
585 BCE

An oligarchy of 80 takes power at Corinth.
580 BCE

First athletic games at Isthmia.
c. 550 BCE

The temple of Apollo is constructed at Corinth.
c. 550 BCE - c. 366 BCE

Peloponnesian League alliance between Sparta, Corinth, Elis and Tegea which establishes Spartan hegemony over the Peloponnese.
525 BCE

Sparta and Corinth unsuccessfully attack Polycrates of Samos.
433 BCE

A naval battle between the victorious combined forces of Corcyra and Athens against Corinth.
429 BCE

Athens successfully campaigns in the Corinthian Gulf regions during the Peloponnesian War.
c. 411 BCE - c. 337 BCE

Life of Corinthian general Timoleon.
395 BCE - 386 BCE

The Corinthian Wars between Sparta and an alliance of Athens, Corinth, Argos, Boeotia and Thebes.
c. 354 BCE

Xenophon dies at Athens or Corinth.
338 BCE

Philip of Macedonia defeats the Greek allied forces of Athens, Thebes and Corinth in the Battle of Chaironeia.
243 BCE

Corinth joins the Archaean League.
243 BCE

Corinth is attacked and brought into the Achaean League.
225 BCE

Macedonians bring an army across the Isthmus to face another Achaian force trying to take Corinth.
146 BCE

Rome sacks Corinth and dissolves the Achaean league. Greece is ruled by Rome.
44 BCE

Julius Caesar founds the Roman colony of Corinth.
67 CE

Under Nero excavation of the Corinth Canal begins but is abandoned after three months.
267 CE

The Goths sack Athens, Corinth, Sparta, and Argos.
c. 396 CE

Corinth burned by the Visigoths under Alaric.