Timeline of Sparta
- 900 BCE Sparta is founded.
- 700 BCE Sparta, Argos and Paros hold the first documented musical competitions in Greece.
- 650 BCE Sparta crushes Messenian revolt.
- 480 BCE Battle of Thermopylae. 300 Spartans under King Leonidas hold back the Persians with 5600 other Greek allies.
- 478 BCE Sparta withdraws from alliance against Persia.
- 464 BCE - 463 BCE Earthquake in Sparta, followed by slave revolt. Surrender of Thasos.
- 457 BCE - 445 BCE First Peloponnesian War.
- 451 BCE - 450 BCE Peace between Argos and Sparta. Athens and Sparta conclude five-year truce.
- 451 BCE Thirty years peace between Argos and Sparta.
- 446 BCE - 445 BCE Spartans invade Attica. Thirty Years’ Peace between Athens and Sparta.
- 431 BCE - 404 BCE The Cycladic city-states side with Athens in the Peloponnesian war against Sparta and her allies.
- 431 BCE - 404 BCE The Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta (the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League) which involved all of Greece.
- 431 BCE - 404 BCE Thebes sides with Sparta against Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
- 430 BCE - 354 BCE Life of the Xenophon of Athens.
- 425 BCE The Nike of Paionios is erected at Olympia to commemorate the Messenian and Naupaktian victory over Sparta at the Battle of Sphakteria.
- 425 BCE Pylos campaign, under Cleon's command, Athens defeat Sparta at Pylos and take prisoners.
- 424 BCE Spartan Brasidas' campaign in Thrace.
- 421 BCE Spartan soldiers return from campaigning Thrace, some as Neodamodeis.
- 417 BCE - 415 BCE Melos, after supporting Sparta in the Peloponnesian War, is attacked by Athens.
- 412 BCE Sparta becomes allies with Persia.
- 404 BCE End of the Peloponnesian war, Athens defeated, Rule of the Thirty Tyrants in Athens.
- 398 BCE Xenophon works as mercenary for Sparta.
- 396 BCE Spartan Agesilaus II's campaign into Ionia.
- 395 BCE Athens, Argos, Corinth and Thebes, initially backed by Persia, revolt against Sparta (Corinthian War).
- 379 BCE - 376 BCE Sparta establishes a garrison at Thebes.
- 377 BCE - 355 BCE The Cycladic city-states join Athens in the Second Athenian League against Sparta .
- 375 BCE Thebes defeats Sparta at the Battle of Tegyra.
- 371 BCE Thebes defeats Sparta in the Battle of Leuktra.
- 367 BCE Celtic mercenaries fight with the Spartans against Thebes.
- 362 BCE Indecisive Battle of Matinea where Thebes fought against Sparta and Athens. Theban general Epaminondas is killed.
- There is no exact date Ancient Sparta came to an end. 362 BCE was when Sparta began to decline, marking the beginning of the end.