Region: West Asia · Coordinates: 37.531, 27.279 · 20 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 623 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Lydia invades Miletus and wages war for eleven years, trampling the fields every year (six years under Sadyattes, the rest under Alyattes) tradition |
| 612 BC | Herodotus, Histories | In the twelfth year, Lydian troops burn the grain; the fire spreads and burns the temple of Athena at Miletus tradition |
| 545 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Unlike the other Ionian cities, Cyrus makes a treaty only with Miletus, on the same terms as Lydia tradition |
| 499 BC | Herodotus, Histories | Aristagoras resolves to revolt and expels the tyrants of the Ionian cities |
| 494 BC | Herodotus, Histories | The Ionian fleet fights the Phoenician fleet at Lade, but the Samian ships desert and they are defeated |
| 494 BC | Herodotus, Histories | The Persians besiege Miletus by land and sea and take it; most men are killed and women and children enslaved |
| 493 BC | Herodotus, Histories | The next year the Persian fleet takes the islands and burns the Ionian cities on the mainland too |
| 412 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Chalcideus and Alcibiades bring about Miletus' defection ahead of the Athenian relief ships |
| 412 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Sparta and its allies conclude their first treaty with the Persian king and Tissaphernes |
| 412 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Athens kills Chalcideus at Panormus in Miletus |
| 412 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | 48 Athenian ships and hoplites land at Miletus from Samos and make camp |
| 412 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | The battle of Miletus: Athens beats the Peloponnesians, while Miletus kills about 300 Argives |
| 412 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Phrynichus refuses battle and withdraws to Samos without completing the victory, and the Argives go home |
| 412 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Tissaphernes pays one drachma a day, then announces he will cut it to three obols |
| 412 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | At Miletus a second treaty is concluded between the Spartan alliance and Darius |
| 411 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | At Miletus the sailors demand pay and attack Astyochus, and the Milesians seize Tissaphernes' fort |
| 411 BC | Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War | Mindarus leaves Miletus with 73 ships for the Hellespont and waits out wind and waves at Icarus for five or six days |
| 406 BC | Xenophon, Hellenica | Callicratidas takes over the fleet from Lysander and gathers it at Miletus, and asks Cyrus for pay, but is only told to wait two days. (A lunar eclipse, a fire in the old temple of Athena at Athens, the archonship of Callias.) |
| 334 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | From Ephesus he went to Miletus, took the outer city and blockaded the inner city. Nicanor first took the island of Lade with 160 ships, while the Persian fleet (about 400 ships) anchored at Cape Mycale. |
| 334 BC | Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander | He rejected negotiations at Miletus, broke the walls with siege engines and took the city; Nicanor blocked the harbor and cut off the Persian fleet's relief. About 300 mercenaries who had fled to the island were absorbed under a truce. |