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Ancient Olympic Games

athletic competitions in ancient Greece

21 dated entries naming Ancient Olympic Games, drawn from 21 separate years between 776 BCE and 393 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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8th century BC

  • 776 BCE776 BC—First Olympic Games, according to Diodorus Siculus (of the 1st century BC). The games would continue to 394 AD. The Olympiad year would later be used by historians to reckon dates in a unified fashion where different Greek calendar systems were in use.source
  • 752 BCE752 BC—Diocles of Messenia won the seventh Ancient Olympic Games.source
  • 748 BCE748 BC – Anticles of Messenia wins the stadion race at the eighth Olympic Games.source
  • 736 BCE736 BC—Leochares of Messenia wins the stadion race at the eleventh Olympic Games.source
  • 716 BCE716 BC—Pythagoras of Laconia wins the stadion race at the 16th Olympic Games.source
  • 708 BCE708 BC—Tellis of Sicyon wins the stadion race at the 18th Olympic Games.source

7th century BC

  • 696 BCE696 BC—Pantacles of Athens wins the stadion race at the 21st Olympic Games.source
  • 688 BCE688 BC—Greece's games of the 23rd Olympiad are held at Olympia; boxing is added to the Olympic Games that are more and more intended as preparation for war. Icarius of Hyperesia wins the stadion race at the 23rd Olympic Games.source
  • 676 BCECallisthenes of Laconia wins the stadion race at the 26th Olympic Games.source

6th century BC

  • 550 BCEMiltiades, renowned Olympic chariot-racersource
  • 548 BCEDiognetus of Croton wins the stadion race at the Olympic Games.source

5th century BC

  • 496 BCETisicrates of Kroton wins the stadion race at the 71st Olympic Games.source
  • 492 BCETisicrates wins the stadion race for a second time at the 72nd Olympic Games.source
  • 488 BCEAstylos of Croton wins the stadion race at the 73rd Olympic Games.source
  • 484 BCEAstylos of Croton wins the stadion race for a second time at the 74th Olympic Games.source
  • 474 BCEThe Greek poet Pindar moves to Thebes after two years at the Sicilian Court of Hiero I of Syracuse. While at Thebes, he composes lyric odes to celebrate triumphs in the Olympic Games and other athletic events.source

4th century BC

  • 396 BCEKyniska becomes the first woman to win an event at the Olympic Games when the horse-drawn chariot she sponsors crosses the finish line first, even though the prohibition on women competing forces her to hire a man to drive it.source
  • 372 BCETroilus of Elis wins two equestrian events at the Olympic Games, which leads to referees being banned from competing in the Games.source

1st century

  • 67Nero travels to Greece, where he participates in the Olympic Games and other festivals.source

4th century

  • 385Aurelios Zopyros becomes the last reported athlete at the Ancient Olympic Games. He is a victor in "junior boxing" (pankration).source
  • 393Theodosius I abolishes the Greek Olympic Games, ending a thousand years of festivals, as part of the general Christian policy to establish universal Christian worship in accordance with the doctrines set forth in the Nicene Creed (the next Olympic Games will not be held until 1896).source

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