1000-900 BC: Ionian migration
555 BC: Croesus conquers the Ionian cities
546 BC: The Persians conquer Ionia
499 BC: Ionian Revolt
490-479 BC: Persian Wars
451 BC: First mention of Lebedus in the list of the allies of Athens
411 BC: Lebedus defects from Athens
404 BC: The Ionian cities become free
386 BC: Ionia under Persian domination
336 BC: Alexander the Great frees the cities of Asia Minor
306-302 BC: Antigonus I proposes the union of Lebedus with Teos
290 BC: People from Lebedus migrate to Ephesus and found the city of Arsinoeia
281 BC: Lebedus becomes independent after Seleucus defeats Lycimachus
246-241 BC: Third Syrian War
208 BC: The Lebedians are reported as Ptolemies (formerly called Lebedians) in an immunity resolution concerning Magnesia, which supported on a Panhellenic scale the celebration of Artemis Leukophyene
260-250 BC: Lebedus is reported as a city independent from Ephesus in an Ionian vote on Antioch I
200 BC: Lebedus votes for a Samian judges and secretary
197 BC: Antioch III captures Ephesus. Lebedus comes under the sphere of the Seleucid influence
188 BC: Peace of Apamea
133 BC: Will of Attalus III and bequest of the Kingdom of Pergamon to the Romans
circa 150 AD: Visit of the orator Aelius Aristides to Lebedus
451: Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon
787: Seventh Ecumenical Council of Nicaea