Macedonia Timeline

• c. 1200 BCE
  Earliest pieces of Protogeometric pottery decorated in a Macedonian style made in Upper Macedonia.
• 1074 BCE
  Aletes, the last Dorian king of Late Bronze Age Corinth, is deposed.
• 926 BCE - 891 BCE
  Bacchis, a descendent of Aletes, becomes king of Corinth.
• 748 BCE
  Telestes, the Bacchiad king of Corinth, is killed by Arieus and Perantas from a different faction of the Bacchiads. The Corinthian political system changes to oligarchy.
• 655 BCE
  Cypselus ends the oligarchy in Corinth and expels the Bacchiads.
• c. 580 BCE
  The Bacchiads move to Upper Macedonia, and become the ruling clan of the Lynkestian tribe.
• c. 497 BCE - c. 454 BCE
  Alexander I reigns as king of Macedon.
• c. 437 BCE
  Athens founds the colony of Amphipolis in northern Macedonia.
• 423 BCE
  The Battle of Lynkestis – Joined forces of Lynkestis and Illyria successfully avert the Macedonian-Spartan invasion.
• 413 BCE
  Archelaus of Macedon invades Lynkestis without success.
• 393 BCE
  Amynthas III of Macedon attempts to capture Lynkestis and breaks its alliance with Illyria only to be defeated by their joined forces.
• 390 BCE
  Amynthas III marries Eurydice of Lynkestis to consolidate a coalition with both Lynkestis and its Illyrian ally.
• 382 BCE - 301 BCE
  Life of Antigonos I.
• 364 BCE
  Macedonian general Perdiccas III successfully defends Amphipolis against Athenian attack.
• 358 BCE
  Philip II of Macedon decisively defeats the Illyrian invasion of Lynkestis and founds Herakleia Lynkestis as a guarding citadel to secure Macedonian border with Illyria.
• 351 BCE
  Herakleia Lynkestis appears for the first time in a written document: Demosthenes' first speech Against Philip the Macedon.
• 339 BCE - 338 BCE
  The Fourth Sacred War.
• 338 BCE
  Philip of Macedonia defeats the Greek allied forces of Athens, Thebes and Corinth in the Battle of Chaironeia.
• c. 330 BCE - c. 300 BCE
  Extensive building programme at Nemea funded by the Macedonians.
• 319 BCE
  Death of Antipater, regent of Macedon.
• 316 BCE
  Death of Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great.
• c. 316 BCE
  Thessalonica is founded by Cassander.
• 310 BCE
  Assassination of Roxanne and Alexander IV, wife and son of Alexander the Great.
• 148 BCE
  Corcyra is made part of the Roman province of Macedonia.
• 148 BCE
  Following the Roman conquest of Macedonia, Herakleia Lynkestis becomes the centre of Macedonia Quatra province of the Roman Empire.
• 146 BCE
  Thessalonica is made the captial of the Roman province of Macedon.
• c. 25 BCE - c. 50 CE
  Life of the Roman physician Aulus Cornelius Celsus.
• c. 100 CE
  Roman architectural features are introduced to the revived city of Heraclea Lyncestis, turning it into a thriving centre of commerce, law, and administration.
• c. 300 CE - c. 500 CE
  Heraclea Lyncestis thrives as an episcopal seat in the Early Christian era.
• c. 600 CE
  A Slavic tribe settles in the region around the already abandoned city of Heraclea Lyncestis.