Athens (Greece): All Data
Athens (Greece) is a city in Greece. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Athens: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
752 BC
Capital of Athenai
480 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second Persian invasion of Greece
479 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second Persian invasion of Greece
477 BC
Mentioned in Event: Wars of the Delian League
477 BC
Capital of Athenian Empire
405 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second Phase - Deceleian War
404 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second Phase - Deceleian War
403 BC
Mentioned in Event: Second Phase - Deceleian War
377 BC
Mentioned in Event: Creation of the Second Athenian League
377 BC
Capital of Second Athenian Empire
354 BC
Mentioned in Event: Social War (357-355)
312 BC
Mentioned in Event: Third War of the Diadochi
304 BC
Mentioned in Event: Fourth War of the Diadochi
287 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Athens (287 BC)
87 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaign in Greece (First Mithridatic War)
87 BC
Mentioned in: Siege of Athens and Piraeus
86 BC
Mentioned in Event: Campaign in Greece (First Mithridatic War)
48 BC
Mentioned in Event: Caesar's Civil War
45 BC
Mentioned in Event: Caesar's Civil War
42 BC
Mentioned in Event: Liberators' Civil War
169 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Marcomannic War
170 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Marcomannic War
268 AD
Mentioned in Event: Gothic War (267-269)
286 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
294 AD
Mentioned in Event: Early Tetrarchic Period
312 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
317 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
325 AD
Mentioned in Event: Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
337 AD
Mentioned in Event: Division of the Empire among the sons of Constantine the Great
351 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
353 AD
Mentioned in Event: Roman civil war of 350-353
395 AD
Mentioned in Event: Definitive Division of the Roman Empire
1206 AD
Capital of Duchy of Athens (Thessalonica)
1210 AD
Capital of Duchy of Athens (Latin Empire)
1261 AD
Capital of Duchy of Athens
1267 AD
Capital of Duchy of Athens (Kingdom of Sicily-Anjou)
1302 AD
Capital of Duchy of Athens (Aragon)
1395 AD
Capital of Duchy of Athens (Venice)
1445 AD
Capital of Duchy of Athens (Despotate of Morea)
1469 AD
Mentioned in Event: Ottoman-Venetian War (1463-1479)
1470 AD
Mentioned in Event: Ottoman-Venetian War (1463-1479)
1687 AD
Mentioned in Event: Morean War
1687 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of the Acropolis (1687), part of Morean War
1821 AD
Mentioned in Event: Central Greece Front (Greek War of Indipendence)
1821 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of the Acropololis, part of Central Greece Front (Greek War of Indipendence)
1826 AD
Mentioned in Event: Egyptian Campaign (Greek War of Independence)
1827 AD
Mentioned in Event: Egyptian Campaign (Greek War of Independence)
1834 AD
Capital of Kingdom of Greece
1924 AD
Mentioned in Event: Proclamation of the Second Hellenic Republic
1924 AD
Capital of Hellenic Republic
1941 AD
Mentioned in Event: German invasion of Greece
1941 AD
Mentioned in Event: Greece divided in Occupation zones by Axis powers
1941 AD
Capital of Hellenic State (Germany)
1944 AD
Mentioned in Event: German Withdrawal from Greece (World War II)
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Attica Region, part of Hellenic Republic