| 1000 B.C.E. | Almost all important Mycenaean sites except Athens are destroyed by now |
| 1000–900 B.C.E. | Greatest depopulation and economic loss |
| 900–800 B.C.E. | Early revival of population and agriculture; beginning use of iron tools and weapons |
| 800 B.C.E. | Greek trading contacts are initiated with Al Mina in Syria |
| 776 B.C.E. | First Olympic Games are held |
| 775 B.C.E. | Euboeans from Greece establish trading post on island in the Bay of Naples |
| 750 B.C.E. | Homeric poetry is recorded in writing after Greeks learn to write again; Hesiod composes his poetry |