Time Line of Persia

1000 B.C.

700 B.C.

600 B.C.

Cyrus the Great of Parsa rebels against the Medes and founds the Persian empire (559 B.C.)
Persia conquers the Medes (550 B.C.)
Persia conquers Lydia (547 - 546 B.C.)
Cyrus the Great of Persia conquers Babylonia absorbing Babylon into the Persian empire (539 B.C.)
Cyrus the Great of Persia frees the captive Jews from Babylonia (539 B.C.)
Cyrus the Great absorbs Phoenicia into the Persian Empire (539 B.C.)
Elam is absorbed into the Persian Empire (538 B.C.)
Egypt conquered by the Persians (525 B.C.)
Darius I quells a rebellion in Persia and becomes king (522 B.C.)
birth of Xerxes, future king of Persia (519 B.C.)

500 B.C.

Persian Wars (490 B.C. - 449 B.C.)
Darius I of Persia defeated by the Greeks at Marathon (490 B.C.)
Persia, led by Xerxes, invades Greece (480 B.C.)
Persians suffer defeat by the Greeks at Plataea and Mycale; Persian expansion halted (479 B.C.)
Egypt overthrows Persian rule (405 B.C.)
Cyrus the Younger rebels in Persia, but is defeated by Artaxerxes II at Cunoxa (401 B.C.)

400 B.C.

revolt of Jews against Artaxerxes III in Persia (350 B.C.)
Lydia becomes a tributary of Macedon after Persia is conquered by Alexander the Great (334 B.C.)
Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia at Issus (333 B.C.)
remants of the Persian Empire fall to Alexander the Great (332 B.C.)
Persian capital of Persepolis burned by Alexander the Great (331 B.C.)

500 A.D.

600 A.D.