478/477 BC Greeks disaffected with Pausanias and Spartans. Athens and allies form Delian League c. 476 BC Delian League, led by Kimon (son of Miltiades), takes Eion, last Persian stronghold west of Hellespont c. 475 BC Delian League takes Skyros Theseus
470s BC Athenians force Karystos (on Euboia) to stay in Delian League 468 BC Kimon defeats Persians in Asia Minor 462/ /450 BC Kimon ostracised BC Failed Delian League expedition to Egypt 450 BC Kimon dies in Cyprus. Peace with Persia follows
BC Allies prevented from leaving Delian League 454 BC League treasury moved to Acropolis in Athens Pericles, descendent of Kleisthenes
462/461 BC Pericles assists Ephialtes in reducing power of Areopagus Council (council of ex-arkhons). Introduces payment for participation in juries. Other posts will become paid 461 BC Death of Ephialtes 458/457 BC Arkhonships opened up to wider range of citizens
PheidiasIktinosMnesikles 443 BC on Pericles dominant leader at Athens
Peloponnesian League 460 BC Athens allies with Argos, enemy of Sparta BC First Peloponnesian War 430s BC Athens interfering in Corinthian colony BC (Second) Peloponnesian War
Late 430s BC Spartan raids on Attican countryside BC Plague in Athens. Pericles dies 425 BC Athenian victory at Sphakteria. Athenians take 292 prisoners incl. 120 Spartan citizen fighters 424 BC Athenians lose territories in N. Greece to Spartans
421 BC Peace of Nikias agreed BC Athenian expedition to Sicily Syracusans BC Oligarchic rule in Athens 405 BC Athenian fleet captured in Hellespont
404 BC Surrender of Athens. End of Second Peloponnesian War. Brief period of oligarchic rule at Athens, followed by restoration of democracy and legal reforms