A chronology of Herodotus' books 5 & 6

para.

year

event

5

1-2

c.512

Persian invasion of Thrace

5

+1

early 6th century

Paionians attack Perinthos

5

3-10

-

Thracian tribes

5

11-24

c.512

Persian invasion of Paionia, embassy to Macedonia, Darius at Sardis

5

25-27

c.511

Otanes as Persian governor, captures Lemnos and Imbros

5

28-29

c.550-c.500

internal conflict of Miletos resolved by Paros

5

30-32

500

Naxos invasion planned

5

33-38

499

Persian invasion of Naxos fails, Ionian revolt starts

5

39-41

c. 540 ?

Birth of Kleomenes, Dorieus, Leonidas, and Cleombrotus

5

42-43

btw. 524? and 510

Dorieus’s failed colony in Libya

5

44-45

510

Fall of Sybaris

5

46-48

btw. 510 and 490

Dorieus’s failed colony in Sicily and aftermath

5

49-51

499

Ionian embassy to Sparta

5

52-54

-

Persian royal road

5

55-56

514

death of the Athenian tyrant Hypparkhos

5

57-61

c. 9th century

Phoenician alphabet introduced to Greece

5

62

514? - 510

Alkmaionids in exile

5

63

c. 511

Spartans led by Anchimolios fail to overthrow Hippias

5

64-65

510

Spartan king Kleomenes overtrhows Hippias

5

66

510-508

Kleisthenes and Isagoras in Athenian politics

5

67-68

c. 580s

Kleisthenes of Sikyon

5

69-70

508

Isagoras coup in Athens

5

71

630s

Cylon’s coup in Athens

5

72

508-507

Isagoras deposed, Kleisthenes restored

5

73

c. 507

Athenian embassy to Sardis

5

74-78

c. 506

War of the anti-Athenian coalition (Sparta, Boiotia, Khalkis)

5

+76

11th century

Dorian invasion of Athens after they colonize Megara

5

79-81

c. 505

Aigina attacks Athens

5

82-88

7th or 6th century

Aigina-Epidauros conflict

5

89

c. 505

Aigina-Athens conflict ends

5

90-91

c. 504

Sparta plans to restore Hippias

5

92

7th century

tyrants of Corinth

5

93

c. 504

Hippias returns to Sigeion

5

94-95

6th century

Athens-Mytilene conflict over Sigeion

5

96

btw. c. 504 and 499

Hippias at Sardis

5

97

499

Ionian embassy to Athens

5

98

499 or 498

Paionians escape from exile in Phrygia

5

99

7th century?

Khalkis-Eretria war

5

100-107

498

Ionians attack Sardis, Hellespontos, Kaunos and Cyprus revolt, Histiaeus dispatched to Ionia

5

108-115

497

Cyprus revolt crushed by the Persians

5

116-122

498

Daurises’ campaign in Hellespontos and Karia, Hymaies's in Hellespontos and Troas

5

123-125

btw. 498 and 496

Otanes takes Kyme & Klazomenai, Aristagoras flees from Ionia

5

126

496

Aristagoras dies at Myrkinos

6

1-5

498 – 495

Histiaios at Sardis, Ionia then leaves for Byzantion

6

6-17

495 or 494

Battle of Lade

6

18-21

494

Fall of Miletos

6

22-24

c.494

Samians take over Zankle

6

25

494

Karia recaptured by the Persians

6

26-27

494

Histiaios takes over Khios

6

28-30

493

Histiaios attacks Thasos, captured in Mysia

6

31-33

493

Persians recapture what’s left of the Ionian revolt

6

34-37

550s or 540s (<546)

Miltiades the Elder takes over the Chersonesos, war with Lampsakos

6

38

btw. 527 and 515?

Stesagoras takes over the Chersonesos, war with Lampsakos

6

39

514?

Miltiades the younger takes over the Chersonesos

6

40

c. 512

Miltiades flees the Scythians, then restored

6

41

493

Miltiades escapes the Persian fleet

6

42

493

Artaphernes's reforms in Ionia

6

43-45

492

Mardonios’ campaign

6

46-51

491

Thasos demilitarized, Darius sends heralds to Greece, Spartan intervention in Aigina

6

52

12th century

establishment of Spartan monarchy

6

53-60

-

Spartan monarchy

6

61-64

c. 530s

birth of Demaratos

6

65-71

491 or 490

Demaratos deposed

6

72

476 or 469

Leotychidas invades Thessaly and banished

6

73-75

490

Kleomenes deposes Aigina leaders, revolt in Arkadia, suicide

6

76-82

490s (or 520s)

Sparta defeats Argos

6

83

btw. 480s and 460s

Tiryns-Argos conflicts

6

84

498?

Scythian embassy to Sparta

6

85-91

489?

Athens-Aigina conflict breaks out

6

92-93

btw. 489? and 483

Argos volunteers fight at Aigina

6

94-102

490

First Persian invasion of Greece starts

6

103

530s to 520s

Kimon’s olympic victories and death

6

104

btw. 493 and 490

Miltiades persecuted at Athens

6

105-107

490

Prelude to the Battle of Marathon

6

108

519

Plataiai joins Athens

6

109-120

490

Battle of Marathon and aftermath

6

121-124

-

Alkmaionids

6

125

btw. c. 585 and 576

Alkmaionids become rich due to Kroisos

6

126-131

576 or 572

Kleisthenes of Sikyon’s contest won by Alkmaionids

6

132-136

c. 489

Miltiades invades Paros

6

137-139

7th century?

Pelasgians expelled from Athens then kidnap women from Brauron

6

140

498 or c. 511

Miltiades captures Lemnos

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