Timeline of Olympic Games

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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