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sparklight) wrote2020-08-19 10:34 pm
sparklight) wrote2020-08-19 10:34 pm
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Greek myth - timeline
I made this mostly for myself as a loose ordering of some of the events. Obviously it doesn't account for everything, and in some cases certain details and whatnot are ignored, as you practically have to do that. In others events which have no solid place have been put together with others, in my case most notably it's Hera, Athena and Poseidon's rebellion, which is put in so Poseidon and Apollo's building the wall of Troy is their punishment for that rebellion. I keep poking at this thing as I check, or re-check things or make a new discovery of connection, so this is by no means definitive! I've also chopped up Herakles' labours to fit around other events.
Obviously, it also doesn't treat the Greek gods as timeless and having existed forever, but in terms of the worldbuilding I've done for my fics, no deities would be that.
Timeline:
The Titans' rule is around 3000(?) B.C. to late 1700 B.C. with Eurynome and her first husband Ophion briefly ruling from Olympos first before Kronos and Rhea and their siblings defeat them, Ophion being thrown into Tartarus and Eurynome back into Oceanos. While Gaia (quite a bit older) and then Ouranus is somewhat older than that, Ouranus metaphysical rule over the sphere doesn't begin immediately (around 3800 BC). Rhea (probably taking her as the goddess with the snakes in Minoan iconography) and Cronus' children start to be born around early 1600 B.C (Zeus is born in 1680 B.C). Zeus makes his initial stab on his father with Metis' help when he's 19, a year after he started posing as his father's cupbearer (1661 BC), a year after his last youthful participation in what will later evolve into the Velchania, where Metis is his consort (they basically marry for real during that).
1730 BC - Hestia is born
1728 BC - Demeter is born
1720 BC - Hera is born
1693 BC - Hades is born
1689 BC - Poseidon is born
1680 BC - Zeus is born
Titanomachy lasts between 1661-1651 BC (about the same for Zeus' and Metis' marriage, it lasts probably until a couple years after the war)
Prometheus tricks Zeus over the future shape of animal sacrifice in 1648 BC and gets chained to the rock a year/a couple years(?) later.
Poseidon tries to court Hestia in 1645 BC (she gets away from it by saying it's too soon and she needs to settle, and he can't truly know if he wants her, so soon after all the war and everything, right?)
The Horai find Aphrodite coming ashore in 1622 BC (she's been spending time in the ocean before that, and right before this, as Nerites declined coming with her, she transformed him.)
Hera fosters/raises Thetis between 1583-1560 BC
Persephone is born in 1562 BC
Pyrrha and Deukalion and the flood in around 1560? something like that (the myth comes from the two of them having to flee/being rescued from the Thera eruption.) They are very long-lived. Their children would have to be as well.
Hades abducts Leuke in 1550 BC
Poseidon pursues and marries Amphitrite in 1543 BC
Makaria is born in 1531 BC
Artemis and Apollo are born in 1528 BC
Nerites is turned back to his own shape in 1522 BC (shortly after that, during a celebration or visit, Poseidon gets involved with him)
(Zeus keeps up the ruse of the cuckoo from 1527-1518 BC - a great year)
Zeus and Hera marry in 1518 BC - (Athena is born shortly after their marriage, at the end of that year)
Hephaistos is born in 1517 BC (Thetis and Eurynome raise him from 1517-1498 BC, and Hephaistos also creates things for them from 1507 BC to when he leaves)
Enyo and Ares (Enyalios) are born in 1515 BC
The Daphne Incident in 1513 BC
Young Athena and Poseidon vie for patronage of to-be Athens in 1508 BC (right at the beginning of young Kekrops' reign instead of at the end of it)
Apollo, after finding out he needs to choose one of the Muses if he's to marry them and can't have all of them, tries to court Hestia instead. Hestia, not because she's more aggravated by Apollo than she was by Poseidon, but certainly done with people trying to marry her, goes to Zeus and asks to remain an unwed virgin in a vow in 1505 BC.
Apollo comes across a still-pregnant Philyra, gets Artemis to help her and ends up fostering Chiron when Philyra is too distraught by the result of her pregnancy in 1502 BC.
Hermes is born in 1500 BC (Apollo is involved with the mortal Hymenaios right around this time and was, in fact, literally making love to him the night Hermes went cow-stealing.)
Nerites, racing Poseidon's chariot, manages to insult Helios (that's his excuse, he's actually jealous of Poseidon and wants to deprive him) and gets transformed in 1499 BC
Hermes visits the Underworld for the first time, and Kerberos is brought to the Underworld in 1498 BC
Ares and Aphrodite start getting involved in 1495 BC (Ares and Eos have sex in 1499 BC and Eos gets cursed as Aphrodite wanted to be first)
In 1487 BC the whole business with Hera's throne goes down and Aphrodite and Hephaistos marry. Eros is born in the next year (Aphrodite was already pregnant when the throne business goes down, but only very early in her pregnancy. Shortly after this Ares and Poseidon have a short-lived relationship that nonetheless leaves Poseidon more kindly towards Ares afterwards, as he's the one who pleads with Hephaistos later to let Ares (and Aphrodite) go.)
[Reasonably Athena going to Hephaistos for arms and the business that leads to the birth of Erichtonius would need to happen around here somewhere.]
Eileithyia is born in 1483 BC
Leuke dies and Elysium is created in 1475 BC
Hades gets involved with Minthe in 1441 BC
Persephone gets a bunch of suitors and Demeter responds by removing herself and Persephone from Olympos in 1433 BC (her female friends still get to visit her, of course, and while Apollo is on thin ice, Demeter bends to Persephone a year or two before she's abducted)
Hymenaios is born in 1430 BC
Angelos is born in 1424 BC
Persephone's abduction is in 1420 BC (? maybe)
Hebe is born in 1396 BC
Hephaistos finds out Ares and Aphrodite are having an affair/continuing their previous relationship, divorces her and leaves Olympos in 1367 BC
Angelos' theft of Hera's appointments(???) occur in 1357(?) BC (sometime before Europa's abduction (the kids born maybe in 1355~), since while Zeus notes her he's busy dealing with Angelos and Hera and the fallout, but then afterwards he's like "I remember she was good-looking..." and goes back?)
[Somewhere around here, while Demeter is in Thelphousa in winter, still feeling the after-effects of her anger during Persephone's initial abduction and to remind herself why it was bad (she doesn't regret it, though), she encounters Ares, and they have a tryst, despite Demeter's hesitations. The result is a *dragon* that she dumps on Ares]
[The incident with the wooden bride around here]
Hermaphroditos is born in 1350 BC
Zeus goes to Europa a second time and Karneios is born in 1343 BC. He's given to Apollo and Leto to raise in want of better options, and Apollo claims him as his own, later bringing him to Lakedaemonia to live
Kadmos founds Thebes and serves Ares between 1356-1348 BC, and marries Harmonia in that last year
The royal house of Dardanos split into two, with Tros moving to Troy and expanding the city in 1337 BC (he's 25, he married Callirrhoe at 23)
[The attack of the Aloadae somewhere here?]
Phobos and Deimos are born in 1336 BC
Ganymede is born in 1328 BC
Tantalos' banquet (as a response "thank you" for being invited up to Olympos a couple years before, and probably an attempt to delay/obfuscate his thefts, his having the golden dog gets found out afterwards [perhaps this is why Pelops is expulsed?], and Pandareos is punished as well) and Pelops taken by Poseidon in 1327 BC
Minthe gets turned into a plant and Persephone requests her father grant she stay above for a whole great year in 1325 BC
Pelops is sent back to Earth in 1318 BC
Nerites is turned back to himself and gets back with Poseidon in 1313 BC
Apollo and Hyacinthus' first three years between here?
The Thanatos Incident
Ganymede abducted in 1311 BC
(A lot of things happen between here and the trojan war)
End of trojan war: 1186 BC
(The Bronze Age collapse comes from the destabilization of the Gigantomachy and then Typhon radiating outwards into the human sphere, leading to that localized collapse of civilisation around the Mediterranean and near Middle East.)
Zeus gives Ganymede the golden hound Rhea had guarding him along with the Kouretes shortly after the war, as that's when they start "taking back" a lot of the stray divine-related things still left down below/in the mortal realm.
Kairos is born of Zeus and Hera in 1000 BC
Myths and adulteries before Ganymede is brought to Olympos (not an exhaustive list, of course):
Himalia (the earliest infidelity, happening shortly after the Titanomachy and thus when he was still married to Metis, possibly very shortly before he swallows her, so it's a "stress" reaction to his finding out about what a son from Metis will lead to for him.)
Hora
Deino
Selene
Sinope (though she does not have sex with him, tricking him to remain a virgin)
Asteria (though there's no sex of course, only pursuit)
Niobe (not the famous one), early during his marriage to Mnemosyne (or Eurynome - or it's shortly after Io, since Io is Niobe's aunt, what with Phoroneus and Io being siblings...); impelled by Aphrodite, the first human to have slept with a deity.
Lykaon's impiety
Protogeneia
Elektra (of course)
Io (somewhere in the middle 1400 BC range)
Plouto
Europa
Taygete (very shortly before Ganymede's abduction)
Aegina (very shortly before, probably only a couple years, or a year or two)
Antiope (right before)
The initial business with Sisyphus
(Plataia and Thebe, kidnapped and removed elsewhere (Thebe for marriage with Zethus), no sex? - Plataia for his bid to reconcile with Hera, and she agrees to go along with it since she won't even be in the wagon to have to face any potential rage before Hera realizes it's a ruse.)
Salmoneus' impiety
Tantalos and Pelops
The Aloadae (trying to assault Olympos, capturing Ares)
After Ganymede is brought to Olympos:
Zeus seducing
Danaë,
Alcmene,
and Semele,
Dia (if Pirithous is his son),
as well as Leda.
(A lot of others; since there's A LOT of these in such a short span of time compared to before, Eros and Aphrodite are undoubtedly responsible for a reasonable number of them.) Also possibly many others after the Trojan War, but these would all be unknown since the Epic Cycle closes the "heroic age", being the end of the "known" myths. Further, it's more likely they wouldn't/shouldn't be mortal women, since that's supposed to be "ended" by Aphrodite being struck with lust for Anchises by Zeus. If we go with Alexander the Great being the son of Zeus by Olympias, she'd be the last one/one of the very rare, late ones.)
Niobe's hubris
The business with Ixion (happening before Zeus goes to Dia).
Apollo with Cyrene, leading to Aristaios and later the birth of Actaeon (yes, that Actaeon, cousin of Semele).
(In general Bellerophon's, Perseus', Heracles', Theseus' and Jason's exploits.)
Herakles, at 20, marries Megara.
At 25, Hera sends the madness that has him killing his and Megara's children (a singleton and a set of multiples?).
Eos pursuing Tithonos (and the much later unpleasant end) - shortly before the below point, as this is probably the reason Laomedon behaves as inadvisably as he does with Apollo and Poseidon.
Zeus being captured (and released/rescued with the help of Thetis) during a scheme of Hera's (along with Poseidon and either Athena and/or Apollo) to demand better rule out of him.
The walls of Troy built through Poseidon's (and Apollo's) punishment for participating in the above scheme, their punishment lasts a year. Laomedon refuses to give payment, Poseidon sends a sea monster.
The labour to get Hippolyta's girdle and Herakles helping Troy get rid of the sea monster. (Say Telamon is 25 and Peleus 23? married by now, Polydora born sometime in the next couple years.)
Cattle of Geryon (this takes a year to get them to Tiryns, maybe he manages to injure Hera during one of her attempts at frustrating him to bring the cattle back?), Neleus and his eldest son(s) attempt to steal some. Herakles will be back to avenge that attempted theft. [Maybe have Herakles attacking Hades and Poseidon at Pylos here, so they drive him off even with Hades being wounded.]
Theseus (20?) and the Minotaur, abandoning of Ariadne.
Three-year expedition for Dionysos to India and other places, after that Dionysos seeks out Herakles for help with Kerberos so he can get past and fetch his mother.
Apollo's relationship with Coronis and her cheating on him.
Marpessa, Apollo, Idas.
The wedding of Dionysus and Ariadne + Semele, Hyacinthus and his sister being resurrected and brought to Olympos along with Dionysos' apotheosis.
Theseus meeting Antiope, she goes with him back to Athens.
Herakles' sack of Troy. (Telamon is 28 [Peleus 26] - Priam urges for his father to honour the agreement and then helps Telamon out of Troy.)
The Gigantomachy.
Fight against Typhon.
[~39 years down to the start of the Trojan War, say Priam is 26.]
Aphrodite falling in love with Anchises (from Zeus' influence).
Leda's first seduction somewhere here - the Dioskouroi seems to have been born earlier than, say, Clytaimnestra and Helen, since they were, if young then, Argonauts.
Herakles attacking Sparta and ousting Hippokoon, Tyndareos reinstated.
[~15 years from here to the Argonauts' journey]
Somewhere here Theseus either divorces Antiope for Phaidra or the Amazons realize Antiope isn't dead/come to attack Athens as punishment for Antiope abandoning their ways. Either way Antiope dies.
Hippolytos (~20 years old?) and Phaidra die. [Acamas and Demophon at least born by this point.]/The issue with Asklepios (~45? years old) between Zeus and Apollo, Apollo's murder of the Cyclopes/their children, and his service with Admetos.
Infant Aias blessed by Herakles/Or Herakles praying to Zeus for Telamon to have a son like the Nemean Lion, not born yet.
The Argonauts' journey.
Calydonian boar hunt.
Eurydike's death and Orpheus' attempt at bringing her back up.
Seven Against Thebes.
Herakles attacking and taking Pylos. Nestor is not present during this attack, since he's a guest in Gerenia.
Theseus and Pirithous' attempted abduction of Persephone/Herakles' twelfth labour (Kerberos).
Herakles fights Acheloos for Deianeira.
The wedding of Thetis and Peleus. (Helen is seven-eight, Peleus at least 35 (more like 50).)
[~15 years from here to the start of the Trojan War]
Theseus' abduction of Helen - apparently Theseus is 50 and Helen 9 around this. (Traditionally Pirithous is present for this, but we'll ignore that.) Achilles would be a year old.
First suiting for Iole (for himself as a concubine or for Hyllos) and being refused. Disappearance of cattle, Iphtios' slaying (Herakles intended to hold him for ransom/exhange for Iole), Delphi business, sold to Omphale. (3 years)
Herakles attacking Oichalia and taking Iole back to Trachis.
Herakles' death, apotheosis, and marriage to Hebe.
Epigoni attack on Thebes (~3-2 years before the war starts? Could even be less than 1.)
The Trojan war (which at some point, or even several, probably especially the latter stages of the last year, Hebe stepped in as cup bearer instead).
The whole Adonis business. (Cinyras' unwittingly sleeping with his daughter and her giving birth to Adonis happens shortly after the Trojan War, perhaps even during Helen and Menelaos' visit, so they leave Cyprus during/after Cinyras' funeral after his committing suicide.)
Psyche and Eros (during the middle of the Greek "dark ages", around 900-800 B.C, around here, too, Harmonia and Kadmos get turned back to proper form and both ascend to Olympos.)
Obviously, it also doesn't treat the Greek gods as timeless and having existed forever, but in terms of the worldbuilding I've done for my fics, no deities would be that.
Timeline:
The Titans' rule is around 3000(?) B.C. to late 1700 B.C. with Eurynome and her first husband Ophion briefly ruling from Olympos first before Kronos and Rhea and their siblings defeat them, Ophion being thrown into Tartarus and Eurynome back into Oceanos. While Gaia (quite a bit older) and then Ouranus is somewhat older than that, Ouranus metaphysical rule over the sphere doesn't begin immediately (around 3800 BC). Rhea (probably taking her as the goddess with the snakes in Minoan iconography) and Cronus' children start to be born around early 1600 B.C (Zeus is born in 1680 B.C). Zeus makes his initial stab on his father with Metis' help when he's 19, a year after he started posing as his father's cupbearer (1661 BC), a year after his last youthful participation in what will later evolve into the Velchania, where Metis is his consort (they basically marry for real during that).
1730 BC - Hestia is born
1728 BC - Demeter is born
1720 BC - Hera is born
1693 BC - Hades is born
1689 BC - Poseidon is born
1680 BC - Zeus is born
Titanomachy lasts between 1661-1651 BC (about the same for Zeus' and Metis' marriage, it lasts probably until a couple years after the war)
Prometheus tricks Zeus over the future shape of animal sacrifice in 1648 BC and gets chained to the rock a year/a couple years(?) later.
Poseidon tries to court Hestia in 1645 BC (she gets away from it by saying it's too soon and she needs to settle, and he can't truly know if he wants her, so soon after all the war and everything, right?)
The Horai find Aphrodite coming ashore in 1622 BC (she's been spending time in the ocean before that, and right before this, as Nerites declined coming with her, she transformed him.)
Hera fosters/raises Thetis between 1583-1560 BC
Persephone is born in 1562 BC
Pyrrha and Deukalion and the flood in around 1560? something like that (the myth comes from the two of them having to flee/being rescued from the Thera eruption.) They are very long-lived. Their children would have to be as well.
Hades abducts Leuke in 1550 BC
Poseidon pursues and marries Amphitrite in 1543 BC
Makaria is born in 1531 BC
Artemis and Apollo are born in 1528 BC
Nerites is turned back to his own shape in 1522 BC (shortly after that, during a celebration or visit, Poseidon gets involved with him)
(Zeus keeps up the ruse of the cuckoo from 1527-1518 BC - a great year)
Zeus and Hera marry in 1518 BC - (Athena is born shortly after their marriage, at the end of that year)
Hephaistos is born in 1517 BC (Thetis and Eurynome raise him from 1517-1498 BC, and Hephaistos also creates things for them from 1507 BC to when he leaves)
Enyo and Ares (Enyalios) are born in 1515 BC
The Daphne Incident in 1513 BC
Young Athena and Poseidon vie for patronage of to-be Athens in 1508 BC (right at the beginning of young Kekrops' reign instead of at the end of it)
Apollo, after finding out he needs to choose one of the Muses if he's to marry them and can't have all of them, tries to court Hestia instead. Hestia, not because she's more aggravated by Apollo than she was by Poseidon, but certainly done with people trying to marry her, goes to Zeus and asks to remain an unwed virgin in a vow in 1505 BC.
Apollo comes across a still-pregnant Philyra, gets Artemis to help her and ends up fostering Chiron when Philyra is too distraught by the result of her pregnancy in 1502 BC.
Hermes is born in 1500 BC (Apollo is involved with the mortal Hymenaios right around this time and was, in fact, literally making love to him the night Hermes went cow-stealing.)
Nerites, racing Poseidon's chariot, manages to insult Helios (that's his excuse, he's actually jealous of Poseidon and wants to deprive him) and gets transformed in 1499 BC
Hermes visits the Underworld for the first time, and Kerberos is brought to the Underworld in 1498 BC
Ares and Aphrodite start getting involved in 1495 BC (Ares and Eos have sex in 1499 BC and Eos gets cursed as Aphrodite wanted to be first)
In 1487 BC the whole business with Hera's throne goes down and Aphrodite and Hephaistos marry. Eros is born in the next year (Aphrodite was already pregnant when the throne business goes down, but only very early in her pregnancy. Shortly after this Ares and Poseidon have a short-lived relationship that nonetheless leaves Poseidon more kindly towards Ares afterwards, as he's the one who pleads with Hephaistos later to let Ares (and Aphrodite) go.)
[Reasonably Athena going to Hephaistos for arms and the business that leads to the birth of Erichtonius would need to happen around here somewhere.]
Eileithyia is born in 1483 BC
Leuke dies and Elysium is created in 1475 BC
Hades gets involved with Minthe in 1441 BC
Persephone gets a bunch of suitors and Demeter responds by removing herself and Persephone from Olympos in 1433 BC (her female friends still get to visit her, of course, and while Apollo is on thin ice, Demeter bends to Persephone a year or two before she's abducted)
Hymenaios is born in 1430 BC
Angelos is born in 1424 BC
Persephone's abduction is in 1420 BC (? maybe)
Hebe is born in 1396 BC
Hephaistos finds out Ares and Aphrodite are having an affair/continuing their previous relationship, divorces her and leaves Olympos in 1367 BC
Angelos' theft of Hera's appointments(???) occur in 1357(?) BC (sometime before Europa's abduction (the kids born maybe in 1355~), since while Zeus notes her he's busy dealing with Angelos and Hera and the fallout, but then afterwards he's like "I remember she was good-looking..." and goes back?)
[Somewhere around here, while Demeter is in Thelphousa in winter, still feeling the after-effects of her anger during Persephone's initial abduction and to remind herself why it was bad (she doesn't regret it, though), she encounters Ares, and they have a tryst, despite Demeter's hesitations. The result is a *dragon* that she dumps on Ares]
[The incident with the wooden bride around here]
Hermaphroditos is born in 1350 BC
Zeus goes to Europa a second time and Karneios is born in 1343 BC. He's given to Apollo and Leto to raise in want of better options, and Apollo claims him as his own, later bringing him to Lakedaemonia to live
Kadmos founds Thebes and serves Ares between 1356-1348 BC, and marries Harmonia in that last year
The royal house of Dardanos split into two, with Tros moving to Troy and expanding the city in 1337 BC (he's 25, he married Callirrhoe at 23)
[The attack of the Aloadae somewhere here?]
Phobos and Deimos are born in 1336 BC
Ganymede is born in 1328 BC
Tantalos' banquet (as a response "thank you" for being invited up to Olympos a couple years before, and probably an attempt to delay/obfuscate his thefts, his having the golden dog gets found out afterwards [perhaps this is why Pelops is expulsed?], and Pandareos is punished as well) and Pelops taken by Poseidon in 1327 BC
Minthe gets turned into a plant and Persephone requests her father grant she stay above for a whole great year in 1325 BC
Pelops is sent back to Earth in 1318 BC
Nerites is turned back to himself and gets back with Poseidon in 1313 BC
Apollo and Hyacinthus' first three years between here?
The Thanatos Incident
Ganymede abducted in 1311 BC
(A lot of things happen between here and the trojan war)
End of trojan war: 1186 BC
(The Bronze Age collapse comes from the destabilization of the Gigantomachy and then Typhon radiating outwards into the human sphere, leading to that localized collapse of civilisation around the Mediterranean and near Middle East.)
Zeus gives Ganymede the golden hound Rhea had guarding him along with the Kouretes shortly after the war, as that's when they start "taking back" a lot of the stray divine-related things still left down below/in the mortal realm.
Kairos is born of Zeus and Hera in 1000 BC
Myths and adulteries before Ganymede is brought to Olympos (not an exhaustive list, of course):
Himalia (the earliest infidelity, happening shortly after the Titanomachy and thus when he was still married to Metis, possibly very shortly before he swallows her, so it's a "stress" reaction to his finding out about what a son from Metis will lead to for him.)
Hora
Deino
Selene
Sinope (though she does not have sex with him, tricking him to remain a virgin)
Asteria (though there's no sex of course, only pursuit)
Niobe (not the famous one), early during his marriage to Mnemosyne (or Eurynome - or it's shortly after Io, since Io is Niobe's aunt, what with Phoroneus and Io being siblings...); impelled by Aphrodite, the first human to have slept with a deity.
Lykaon's impiety
Protogeneia
Elektra (of course)
Io (somewhere in the middle 1400 BC range)
Plouto
Europa
Taygete (very shortly before Ganymede's abduction)
Aegina (very shortly before, probably only a couple years, or a year or two)
Antiope (right before)
The initial business with Sisyphus
(Plataia and Thebe, kidnapped and removed elsewhere (Thebe for marriage with Zethus), no sex? - Plataia for his bid to reconcile with Hera, and she agrees to go along with it since she won't even be in the wagon to have to face any potential rage before Hera realizes it's a ruse.)
Salmoneus' impiety
Tantalos and Pelops
The Aloadae (trying to assault Olympos, capturing Ares)
After Ganymede is brought to Olympos:
Zeus seducing
Danaë,
Alcmene,
and Semele,
Dia (if Pirithous is his son),
as well as Leda.
(A lot of others; since there's A LOT of these in such a short span of time compared to before, Eros and Aphrodite are undoubtedly responsible for a reasonable number of them.) Also possibly many others after the Trojan War, but these would all be unknown since the Epic Cycle closes the "heroic age", being the end of the "known" myths. Further, it's more likely they wouldn't/shouldn't be mortal women, since that's supposed to be "ended" by Aphrodite being struck with lust for Anchises by Zeus. If we go with Alexander the Great being the son of Zeus by Olympias, she'd be the last one/one of the very rare, late ones.)
Niobe's hubris
The business with Ixion (happening before Zeus goes to Dia).
Apollo with Cyrene, leading to Aristaios and later the birth of Actaeon (yes, that Actaeon, cousin of Semele).
(In general Bellerophon's, Perseus', Heracles', Theseus' and Jason's exploits.)
Herakles, at 20, marries Megara.
At 25, Hera sends the madness that has him killing his and Megara's children (a singleton and a set of multiples?).
Eos pursuing Tithonos (and the much later unpleasant end) - shortly before the below point, as this is probably the reason Laomedon behaves as inadvisably as he does with Apollo and Poseidon.
Zeus being captured (and released/rescued with the help of Thetis) during a scheme of Hera's (along with Poseidon and either Athena and/or Apollo) to demand better rule out of him.
The walls of Troy built through Poseidon's (and Apollo's) punishment for participating in the above scheme, their punishment lasts a year. Laomedon refuses to give payment, Poseidon sends a sea monster.
The labour to get Hippolyta's girdle and Herakles helping Troy get rid of the sea monster. (Say Telamon is 25 and Peleus 23? married by now, Polydora born sometime in the next couple years.)
Cattle of Geryon (this takes a year to get them to Tiryns, maybe he manages to injure Hera during one of her attempts at frustrating him to bring the cattle back?), Neleus and his eldest son(s) attempt to steal some. Herakles will be back to avenge that attempted theft. [Maybe have Herakles attacking Hades and Poseidon at Pylos here, so they drive him off even with Hades being wounded.]
Theseus (20?) and the Minotaur, abandoning of Ariadne.
Three-year expedition for Dionysos to India and other places, after that Dionysos seeks out Herakles for help with Kerberos so he can get past and fetch his mother.
Apollo's relationship with Coronis and her cheating on him.
Marpessa, Apollo, Idas.
The wedding of Dionysus and Ariadne + Semele, Hyacinthus and his sister being resurrected and brought to Olympos along with Dionysos' apotheosis.
Theseus meeting Antiope, she goes with him back to Athens.
Herakles' sack of Troy. (Telamon is 28 [Peleus 26] - Priam urges for his father to honour the agreement and then helps Telamon out of Troy.)
The Gigantomachy.
Fight against Typhon.
[~39 years down to the start of the Trojan War, say Priam is 26.]
Aphrodite falling in love with Anchises (from Zeus' influence).
Leda's first seduction somewhere here - the Dioskouroi seems to have been born earlier than, say, Clytaimnestra and Helen, since they were, if young then, Argonauts.
Herakles attacking Sparta and ousting Hippokoon, Tyndareos reinstated.
[~15 years from here to the Argonauts' journey]
Somewhere here Theseus either divorces Antiope for Phaidra or the Amazons realize Antiope isn't dead/come to attack Athens as punishment for Antiope abandoning their ways. Either way Antiope dies.
Hippolytos (~20 years old?) and Phaidra die. [Acamas and Demophon at least born by this point.]/The issue with Asklepios (~45? years old) between Zeus and Apollo, Apollo's murder of the Cyclopes/their children, and his service with Admetos.
Infant Aias blessed by Herakles/Or Herakles praying to Zeus for Telamon to have a son like the Nemean Lion, not born yet.
The Argonauts' journey.
Calydonian boar hunt.
Eurydike's death and Orpheus' attempt at bringing her back up.
Seven Against Thebes.
Herakles attacking and taking Pylos. Nestor is not present during this attack, since he's a guest in Gerenia.
Theseus and Pirithous' attempted abduction of Persephone/Herakles' twelfth labour (Kerberos).
Herakles fights Acheloos for Deianeira.
The wedding of Thetis and Peleus. (Helen is seven-eight, Peleus at least 35 (more like 50).)
[~15 years from here to the start of the Trojan War]
Theseus' abduction of Helen - apparently Theseus is 50 and Helen 9 around this. (Traditionally Pirithous is present for this, but we'll ignore that.) Achilles would be a year old.
First suiting for Iole (for himself as a concubine or for Hyllos) and being refused. Disappearance of cattle, Iphtios' slaying (Herakles intended to hold him for ransom/exhange for Iole), Delphi business, sold to Omphale. (3 years)
Herakles attacking Oichalia and taking Iole back to Trachis.
Herakles' death, apotheosis, and marriage to Hebe.
Epigoni attack on Thebes (~3-2 years before the war starts? Could even be less than 1.)
The Trojan war (which at some point, or even several, probably especially the latter stages of the last year, Hebe stepped in as cup bearer instead).
The whole Adonis business. (Cinyras' unwittingly sleeping with his daughter and her giving birth to Adonis happens shortly after the Trojan War, perhaps even during Helen and Menelaos' visit, so they leave Cyprus during/after Cinyras' funeral after his committing suicide.)
Psyche and Eros (during the middle of the Greek "dark ages", around 900-800 B.C, around here, too, Harmonia and Kadmos get turned back to proper form and both ascend to Olympos.)