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c. 900 BCESparta is founded.
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706 BCE
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c. 650 BCESparta crushes Messenian revolt.
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c. 550 BCE - c. 366 BCEPeloponnesian League alliance between Sparta, Corinth, Elis and Tegea which establishes Spartan hegemony over the Peloponnese.
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494 BCE - 493 BCE
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Aug 480 BCEBattle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans under King Leonidas and other Greek allies hold back the Persians led by Xerxes I for three days but are defeated.
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c. 471 BCESpartan general Pausanias is put on trial for the second time with a charge of treason but is acquitted for a second time.
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464 BCE - 463 BCEEarthquake in Sparta, followed by slave revolt. Surrender of Thasos.
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460 BCE - 445 BCEFirst Peloponnesian War.
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457 BCE
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431 BCE - 404 BCEThe 2nd Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League) which involved all of Greece.
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431 BCE - 404 BCE
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427 BCEPlataea finally falls to the Spartans after a two year siege.
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425 BCE
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424 BCE
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424 BCESpartan Brasidas' campaign in Thrace.
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424 BCEA force of Athenian peltasts defeat Spartan hoplites on Sphaktria in the Peloponnese.
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422 BCESpartan general Brasidas employs Myrkinian and Chalkidian peltasts to defeat a force of Athenian hoplites at Amphipolis.
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422 BCESpartan general Brasidas dies of his wounds at Amphipolis.
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421 BCESpartan soldiers return from campaigning Thrace, some as Neodamodeis.
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420 BCESparta is excluded from the Olympic Games for breaking the ekecheiria or sacred truce.
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413 BCEOn the advice of Alcibiades the Spartans take over the Athenian-held fort of Dekeleia.
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c. 412 BCE
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412 BCEThe Spartan general Astyochus sacks Kos.
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410 BCEAlcibiades leads the Athenian fleet to victory over Sparta at Cyzicus.
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c. 408 BCELysander is first made an admiral of the Spartan fleet.
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404 BCEEnd of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aigospotamoi, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
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396 BCESpartan Agesilaus II's campaign into Ionia.
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390 BCEAthenian leader Iphikrates employs peltasts to defeat Spartan hoplites at Lechaion near Corinth.
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378 BCE - 377 BCESpartan king Agesilaus II campaigns in Boeotia.
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371 BCE
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362 BCEIndecisive Battle of Matinea where Thebes fought against Sparta and Athens. Theban general Epaminondas is killed.
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222 BCE
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