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1500 BCE: The site of Delphi is first settled.
800 BCE: The site of Delphi first acquires a religious significance.
650 BCE: The first temple in honour of Apollo is built at Delphi.
580 BCE: The kouroi of Argos, thought to represent Cleobis & Biton, are sculpted.
560 BCE: The oracles of Delphi and Thebes both tell King Croesus of Lydia that if he attacks the Medes, he will destroy a great empire. Seeing this as a good omen, he goes to war, loses, and the Lydian Empire is destroyed.
560 BCE: Naxos dedicates a large column and sphinx to the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
525 BCE: The Treasury of the Siphnians is built at Delphi which included Caryatid architecture.
510 BCE: The second temple to Apollo is constructed at Delphi, replacing the first temple destroyed by fire.
490 BCE: Athens builds a treasury at Delphi following their victory at Marathon against Persia.
480 BCE - 460 BCE: The bronze charioteer of Delphi is sculpted.
480 BCE: Persian forces attack the sanctuary of Delphi.
448 BCE: Pericles leads the Athenian forces in the Battle of Delphi.
373 BCE: An earthquake destroys the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
330 BCE: The third temple to Apollo is constructed at Delphi, replacing the earlier temple damaged by earthquake.
279 BCE: Gauls attack the sanctuary of Delphi.
191 BCE: Delphi comes under Roman control.
67 CE: Emperor Nero competes at the panhellenic Games of Olympia and Delphi.
393 CE: Roman Emperor Theodosius definitively ends all pagan Games in Greece.
591 CE - 585 CE: The Pythian Games of Delphi began.