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861 matches to Peloponnesian War
Aegospotami. 405BC. Naval battle, ends Peloponnesian War. Victory of Lysander vs Athens.
Alcibiades. c450-404BC. Athenian egoist general, Peloponnesian War. Murdered.
Archidamian War. 431-421BC. Peloponnesian War.
Lycurgus. c390-324BC.Led short revival of Athens after Peloponnesian War.
Lysander. -395BC. Spartan admiral. Captured Athens 404BC. Ended Peloponnesian War.
Nicias, Peace. 421BC. Pause in Peloponnesian War.
Peloponnesian War. 460-445BC. Athens vs Peloponnesian League.
Peloponnesian War, Second. 431-404BC. Sparta defeats Athens, beginning Greek decline.
Potidaea. 432BC. Revolt vs Athens. Second Peloponnesian War.
Sparta. 9C BC-396. A dominant Greek city-state 6-4C BC. Peloponnesian War defeated rival Athens. 396 Visigoths destroy.
Thirty Years’ Peace. 445-415BC Ended First Peloponnesian War.
Thucydides. 5C BC. Greek historian of Peloponnesian Wars. Objective historical science.
Cleon. -422BC. Athenian leader; advocated Pelop. War.
Peloponnesian League. 6C-366BC. Led by Sparta. Leuctra Battle.
Syracuse, Battle. 480BC Carthage repelled. 415-413BC Critical Athenian defeat in Peloponnesian War. 396, 392 Carthage defeated. 382-75 Defeated by Carthage. 214-211 BC Rome conquers, sacks city.
Aarau Treaty. 1712. Ended Swiss War.
Abel, Frederick. 1827-1902. English inventor of military explosive cordite with Dewar, 1889.
Abyssinia-Italy War. 1894-6. Ended Italian colonialism.
Abyssinian War. 1935-6. Italy invades Ethiopia. League of Nations ineffective.
Achilles. Greek hero of Trojan Wars, invulnerable except for his heel, subject of Homer’s Iliad.
Achinese War. 1873-1904. Dutch defeat Moslems in Sumatra.
Adenauer, Konrad. 1876-1967. First chancellor of German Federal Republic., 1949-63. Stabilized postwar Germany.
Adrianople, Treaty. 1829. Ends Russo-Turkish War. Ottomans cede control of Greece.
Afghanistan. c200BC Aryan. 6C BC Achaemenid. 330 Alexander...Seleucid/ Maurya. 2C BC Persia/ India/ Parthia/ Kushan. 7C Arab (NW). 750 Persia (W)/ Hindu (E). 1219 Mongol...Timurid. 1525 Mogul. 1737 Persia. 1747 Monarchy. 19 C Britain/Russia dispute 1880 British suzerainty. 1919 Independent. 1973 Marxist coup, Republic. 1978 Communist coup. 1979 Russian occupation. 1989 Mujahideen expel Russians aided by CIA. 1990s Warlords. 2001 US attack Taliban.
Agamemnon. Legendary King of Argos/Mycenae. Led Greeks in Trojan War.