Athenian Law Timeline
| Athenian Law |
Other Athenian History |
| 632: Cylon fails to establish tyranny in Athens | |
| 621/20: Drakon’s laws | |
| 594/93: Solon’s reforms | |
| 546: Peisistratos establishes tyranny | |
| 508/7: Cleisthenes’ reforms; establishment of democracy | |
| 490: Battle of Marathon | |
| 487/6: Nine archons henceforth chosen by lot | |
| 480-79: Xerxes’ invasion; battles of Thermopylae, Artimisium; Salamis and Plataea | |
| 478: Creation of Delian League | |
| 462: Ephialtes’ reforms (reduced powers of Areiopagus) | |
| 451/0: Perikles’s citizenship law | c. 450: Athenians and Persians make peace |
| 440’s: Introduction of jury pay by Perikles | |
| 431: beginning of Peloponnesian War (431-404) | |
| c. 430: Earliest fragments of speeches composed by logographer (Antiphon) | 429: Death of Perikles |
| c. 425: Cleon raises jury pay two obols per day | |
| 415-413: Sicilian Expedition | |
| 415: First attested graphê paranomôn | |
| 411: Trial and death of Antiphon | 411: Oligarchic revolution of the 400 |
| 410: Codification Board (anagrapheis tôn nomôn) begins work, led by Nikomachus | |
| 409/8: Reinscription of Drakon’s homocide law | |
| 404: Reinscription of laws completed | 404: Battle of Aegispotamoi (defeat of Athens) |
| 403/2: Teisamenos’ decree; ratification of lawcode; establishment of nomothetai supervising legislation; nomoi and psêphsimata distinguished | 403: Thirty tyrants in Athens; democracy restored same year |
| 399: Trial of Socrates | 395-387: Cornithian War |
| 385/84: Birth of Demosthenes | |
| 378/7: Introduction of pinakia for jury selection. | 377: Establishment of Second Athenian Naval Confederacy |
| c. 375: Witnesses no longer give oral testimony in court; instead, clerk henceforth reads statements given in advance of trial. | |
| 371-362: Theban hegemony | |
| 366: Demosthenes prosecutes guardians | |
| 356: Beginning of Sacred War | |
| 348: Philip captures of Olynthus | |
| 345: Against Timarkhos trial (Aes. 1) | 346: End of Sacred War |
| 343: On the False Embassy trial (Dem. 19; Aes. 2) | |
| 338: Battle of Chaeronia; end of Athenian autonomy | |
| 330: On the Crown trial (Aes. 3; Dem. 18) | |
| 322: Demosthenes convicted in Harpalos affair. |