Ionian Revolt
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Were a series of revolts of Greek city-states of Asia Minor against Achaemenid rule.
Chronology
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January 498 BC: Aristagoras brought all of Hellenic Asia Minor into revolt.
January 498 BC: The island of Kasos was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Chalke was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: In a desperate attempt to save himself, as he had failed in the conquest to Naxos for the Achaemenids, Aristagoras chose to incite his own subjects, the Milesians, to revolt against their Persian masters, thereby beginning the Ionian Revolt. He therefore openly declared his revolt against Darius, abdicated from his role as tyrant, and declared Miletus to be a democracy.
January 498 BC: Cius was taken by the Persians, after the burning of Sardis, in 499 BC.
January 498 BC: The island of Astypalaia was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Kalymna was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Arkesseia was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Eteokarpathioi was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Karpathos was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Astypalaia (Kos) was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Halasarna was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Kos was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Kos Meropis was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Leros was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Saros was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Syme was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Telos was captured by the Persians.
January 498 BC: The island of Brykous was captured by the Persians.
Was a revolt of the Greek cities of Ionia (Asia Minor) against Achaemenid rule.
January 497 BC: Seeing the spread of the Ionians rebellion, the kingdoms of Cyprus also revolted against Persian rule without any outside persuasion. In Cyprus, all the kingdoms had revolted except that of Amathus.
June 498 BC: Artaphernes still held the citadel with a significant force of men. The lower city then caught on fire, Herodotus suggests accidentally, which quickly spread. The Persians in the citadel, being surrounded by a burning city, emerged into the market-place of Sardis, where they fought with the Greeks, forcing them back. The Greeks, demoralised, then retreated from the city, and began to make their way back to Ephesus.
January 497 BC: Despite the defeat at Ephesus, the revolt actually spread further. The Ionians sent men to the Hellespont and Propontis and captured Byzantium and the other nearby cities.
April 497 BC: The Ionians persuaded the Carians to join the rebellion against the Achaemenid Empire.
Flight of the tyrant of Miletus, Aristagoras, from the city.
January 496 BC: At the height of the Persian counter-offensive, Aristagoras, sensing his untenable position, decided to abandon his responsibilities as leader of Miletus and of the revolt. In Thrace, he took control of the city that Histiaeus had founded, Myrcinus.
January 495 BC: Aristagoras was killed by the Thracians.
Were a series of military offensives by the Achaemenids to reconquere rebel territories in Asia Minor.
January 496 BC: The revolt in Cyprus was crashed.
January 495 BC: Carian Campaign: Battle of the Labraunda.
January 492 BC: In -493 BC, the Persian fleet and army, led by the Persian king Darius I, wintered at Miletus before launching a campaign to suppress the Ionian Revolt. The islands of Chios, Lesbos, and Tenedos were captured by the Persian forces as they sought to regain control of the region.
January 492 BC: The Persian army then re-conquered the settlements on the Asian side of the Propontis, while the Persian fleet sailed up the European coast of the Hellespont, taking each settlement in turn. With all of Asia Minor now firmly returned to Persian rule, the revolt was finally over.
January 492 BC: The Gallipoli Peninsula was abandoned to the Persians in 493 BC.
