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  • c. 660 BCE
    Pheidon is tyrant in Argos.
  • c. 657 BCE - 585 BCE
    The Kypselidai are tyrants of Corinth.
  • 627 BCE - 587 BCE
    Periander is tyrant at Corinth.
  • c. 560 BCE
    Pisistratos becomes tyrant in Athens for the first time.
  • c. 546 BCE
    Pisistratus lands his Argive mercenary force at Marathon and with victory at Pallene establishes himself once again as tyrant of Athens.
  • 530 BCE - 522 BCE
    Polykrates is tyrant at Samos.
  • 514 BCE
    The tyrant of Athens Hipparchos is killed by Harmodios and Aristogeiton - the 'tyrannicides'.
  • 491 BCE - 478 BCE
    Gelon is tyrant of Syracuse.
  • 480 BCE
    Tyrant of Syracuse Gelon defeats the Carthaginians at the battle of Himera.
  • 478 BCE - 467 BCE
    Hiero I is tyrant of Syracuse.
  • c. 460 BCE - 403 BCE
    Life of Critias, one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens.
  • 405 BCE
    Dionysius becomes tyrant in Syracuse, Sicily.
  • 397 BCE
    Dionysius I of Syracuse employs wheeled seige towers and bolt throwers for the first time in Greek warfare at the seige of Motya.
  • 367 BCE
    Dionysius II becomes tyrant of Syracuse, Sicily.
  • 356 BCE
    Dion becomes tyrant of Syracuse.
  • 288 BCE
    Hicetus becomes tyrant of Syracuse.
  • 270 BCE - 215 BCE
    Hiero II is tyrant of Syracuse.
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