Time Line of Lydia

• foundations of the kingdom of Lydia by the Heraclid dynasty (c. 1200 B.C.)

• Lydians from Asia Minor settle in Italy (c. 1000 B.C.)

• Gyges founds the Mermnad dynasty in Lydia (c. 685 B.C.)
• Cimmerian invaders driven from Lydia by Ardys (c. 651 B.C.)
• coinage invented in Lydia ( 650 B.C. )
• Alyattes rules Lydia (605-560 B.C.)

• Croesus subjugates Greek Ionian colonies (c. 560 B.C.)
• Croesus of Lydia conquers Phrygia (c. 560 B.C.)
• Persia conquers Lydia including the Ionian Greeks (547 - 546 B.C.)

• Lydia becomes a tributary of Macedon after Persia is conquered by Alexander the Great (334 B.C.)
• Lydia absorbed into the Seleucid kingdom (323 B.C.)

• Lydia absorbed into the Pergamum kingdom (190 B.C.)
• Lydia absorbed into the Roman Empire (133 B.C.)