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776 BCE: First athletic games in honour of Zeus are held at Olympia with one event, the stadion foot race.
586 BCE: First athletic games at Delphi.
580 BCE: First athletic games at Isthmia.
573 BCE: First athletic games at Nemea in honour of Zeus.
488 BCE: Kroton of Magna Graecia wins the first of three consecutive stadion races in the Olympic Games.
330 BCE - 320 BCE: New stadium constructed at Nemea.
271 BCE: Final Games at Nemea.
261 CE: Last documented victor at Olympic Games.
393 CE: Roman Emperor Theodosius definitively ends all pagan Games in Greece.