Olympische Spiele: Zeitlinie
776 BC
Considered Official date of Olympic Games, Korebos (or Coroebus) of Elis sprint race winner. The first winner.
748 BC
Kotinos Prize from sacred olive tree
724 BC
Diaulos
720 BC
Dolichos, Orsippus probably the first nude runner
708 BC
Pentathlon
688 BC
Boxing
680 BC
Chariot Race, four horses tethtrippon
648 BC
Pankration
632 BC
Events for boys
594 BC
Athens starts special training program to stop Spartan athletes dominance
586 BC
Pythian Games in honour of Apollo in Delphi
532-516 BC
Milon of Crotona dominates in wrestling
520 BC
Hoplitodromos
472 BC
Games extended to 5 days
396 BC
contests for heralds and trumpeters
356 BC
Philipp II, King of Macedon, victory in horse races
around 100 BC
End of Pythian Games
4 BC
Tiberius (later Imperator of Rome) winner of the tethrippon game (4 horses race)
65 AD
Nero participates in the Olympic Games. He orders the Games to start 2 years earlier
385 AD
Zoppyrus of Athens in Pancration the last known athletes
393 AD
Christian Emperor Theodosius I abolished the Greek Olympic Games, with 293 Olympic Games had been held.
426 AD
Christian Emperor Theodosius II ordered the destruction of all Olympic temples. The temples in Olympia were set in fire.
1569
One of the first reports of the Olympic Games after 1100 years in the book De arte gymnastica of Mercurialis, Italy
1592
Petrus Faber recommends the start again of Olympic Games in his book Agonisticon
1612
Robert Dover in England tries to revive the Games with events close to Birminghman, the so-called Olimpick Games upon Cotswold Hills.
1766
Richard Chandler discovers ancient Olympia
1892
Pierre de Coubertin recommends the rebirth of the Olympic Games
1896
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