Visual Timeline: Cleisthenes

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570 BCE 560 BCE 550 BCE 540 BCE 530 BCE 520 BCE 510 BCE 500 BCE 490 BCE 480 BCE 470 BCE 460 BCE  
 
570 BCE: Athenian statesman Cleisthenes is born.
 
525 BCE: Cleisthenes is made archon at Athens.
 
508 BCE: According to Aristotle, the institution of ostracism is introduced in Athens under Cleisthenes.
 
 
508 BCE: Reforms by Cleisthenes establishes democracy in Athens.
 
 
462 BCE - 458 BCE: Pericles introduces democratic institutions in Athens.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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