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| 454 BC |
| | | Pericles' power is greatly increased when he is put in charge of the funds of the Delian leaague | |
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| c. 450 BC |
| | | Pericles introduces payment in Athens for jury service so that no citizen is excluded by poverty | |
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| 447 BC |
| | | The Athenians begin building the Parthenon, a temple to Athena, which they complete within ten years | |
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| 446 BC |
| | | An army commanded by a Spartan king turns back mysteriously during an invasion of Attica, leading to rumours that Pericles has bribed the king | |
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| 446 BC |
| | | Pericles negotiates a treaty, scheduled to hold for thirty years, establishing spheres of influence for Sparta (the mainland) and Athens (the Aegean coast and islands) | |
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| 443429 BC |
| | | Pericles is selected by the assembly as the leading general of Athens, a post to which he is re-appointed every year until his death | |
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| c. 440 BC |
| | | Under Pericles, colonies and garrisons are established in strategic areas with the colonists remaining Athenian citizens | |
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| 433 BC |
| | | Pericles breaches his own Thirty Years Treaty, sending 30 triremes in support of a city state in dispute with Corinth, an ally of Sparta | |
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| 433 BC |
| | | Sparta demands withdrawal of the Athenian ships from the Peloponnesian coast, but Pericles will offer only independent arbitration | |
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| 429 BC |
| | | Pericles dies in Athens of the plague | |
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