Naval Warfare Timeline

• 660 BCE
  Corcyra wins a naval battle against their founding city of Corinth.
• 535 BCE
  Battle of Alalia. Carthaginian navy, in alliance with Etruscans, defeated Greek ships off the island of Corsica.
• 493 BCE
  The first fortifications are constructed at Athens' port of Piraeus.
• c. 483 BCE
  Themistocles persuades the Athenians to significantly expand their fleet, which saves them at Salamis and becomes their source of power.
• Aug 480 BCE
  The indecisive battle of Artemision between the Greek and Persian fleets of Xerxes I. The Greeks withdraw to Salamis.
• Sep 480 BCE
  Battle of Salamis where the Greek naval fleet led by Themistocles defeats the invading armada of Xerxes I of Persia.
• 433 BCE
  A naval battle between the victorious combined forces of Corcyra and Athens against Corinth.
• 410 BCE
  Alcibiades leads the Athenian fleet to victory over Sparta at Cyzicus.
• c. 407 BCE
  The Athenian fleet is defeated by Lysander of Sparta at Notium.
• 404 BCE
  End of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aigospotamoi, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
• 344 BCE
  Corcyra contributes two ships to Timoleon's fleet which attacked Syracuse.
• 260 BCE
  First Roman naval victory against Carthage off Mylae in the First Punic War.
• 256 BCE
  Roman naval victory against Carthage off Ecnomus during the First Punic War.
• 241 BCE
  Roman naval victory off the Aegates Islands leads to victory over Carthage, ending the First Punic War.
• 67 BCE
  Pompey assembles a naval fleet and attacks Pamphylia and Cilicia, principally to repress piracy.
• 56 BCE
  The navies of Rome and the Veneti Gauls clash resulting in a Roman victory. This is the first recorded naval battle in the Atlantic Ocean.