The Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies came in two stages: from c. 460 to 446 and from 431 to 404 BCE. With battles at home and abroad, the long and complex conflict was damaging to both sides. Sparta, with financial help from Persia, finally won the conflict by destroying the Athenian fleet at Aegospotami in 405 BCE.
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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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478 BCE - 454 BCEThe treasury of the Delian League is kept on Delos until its removal to Athens.
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c. 470 BCE - c. 469 BCEAttempted secession of Naxos from the Delian League. It is defeated and enslaved.
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460 BCE - 445 BCEFirst Peloponnesian War.
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458 BCEA treaty of cooperation is signed between the Sicilian city-state of Segesta and Athens.
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457 BCESparta wins the battle of Tanagra during the 1st Peloponnesian War with Athens.
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454 BCEThe Athenians move the treasury of the Delian League from Delos to Athens.
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451 BCEThirty years peace between Argos and Sparta.
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446 BCE - 445 BCEThirty years peace between Athens and Peloponnesians.
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432 BCESparta declares that Athens has broken the Thirty Year Peace and prepares for war.
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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 BCEThe Cycladic city states side with Athens in the Peloponnesian war against Sparta and her allies.
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431 BCE - 404 BCEThebes sides with Sparta against Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
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431 BCEAthens invades Megara.
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429 BCEAthens successfully campaigns in the Corinthian Gulf regions during the Peloponnesian War.
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429 BCEPeloponnesian forces led by Sparta begin the siege of Plataea.
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429 BCEFollowing attacks by Sparta, fortifications at the port of Piraeus are extended to reduce the width of the harbour entrances.
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429 BCEThe death of Pericles from the plague.
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427 BCEPlataea finally falls to the Spartans after a two year siege.
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425 BCEAthenian and Corinthian hoplites fight a street battle in the suburbs of Solygeia.
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425 BCEPylos campaign, under Cleon and Demosthenes' command Athens defeats Sparta at Pylos.
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424 BCEThe Athenian expeditions against Megara and Boeotia are a failure with a particularly heavy defeat near Delion.
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424 BCE - 420 BCEThe Nike of Paionios is erected at Olympia to commemorate the Messenian and Naupaktian victory over Sparta at the battle of Sphakteria.
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424 BCEA force of Athenian peltasts defeat Spartan hoplites on Sphaktria in the Peloponnese.
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423 BCEA one year truce in the Peloponnesian War.
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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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421 BCEPeace of Nicias, a truce between the Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues.
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421 BCESpartan soldiers return from campaigning Thrace, some as Neodamodeis.
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418 BCESparta, led by Agis II, defeats Argos and her allies at the battle of Mantinaea.
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417 BCE - 415 BCEMelos, after supporting Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, is attacked by Athens.
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415 BCE - 413 BCEAthenian expedition to attack Syracuse.
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c. 415 BCEAlcibiades persuades the Athenian assembly to send a military expedition to Sicily.
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413 BCEOn the advice of Alcibiades the Spartans take over the Athenian-held fort of Dekeleia.
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413 BCEThe Athenian expedition in Sicily ends in disastrous defeat and the Athenian generals Nicias and Demosthenes are executed.
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c. 412 BCERhodes revolts against Athens and supports Sparta in the Peloponnesian War.
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412 BCESparta allies with Persia.
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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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c. 407 BCEAlcibiades returns to Athens in triumph and is made strategos autokrater.
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c. 407 BCEThe Athenian fleet is defeated by Lysander of Sparta at Notium.
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404 BCESpartan general Lysander attacks the Athenian port of Piraeus destroying parts of the Long Wall fortifications.
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404 BCEEnd of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated By Sparta at Aigospotamoi, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
