Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC
Decades: 730s BC 720s BC 710s BC - 700s BC - 690s BC 680s BC 670s BC
Years: 709 BC 708 BC 707 BC 706 BC 705 BC 704 BC 703 BC 702 BC 701 BC 700 BC
Categories: Births - Deaths - Architecture
Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

• 706 BC — Spartan immigrants found Taras (Tarentum, the modern Taranto) colony in southern Italy.
• 706 BC — Sargon II dies.
• 705 BC — Sennacherib succeeds his father Sargon II as king of Assyria.
• 704 BC — Sennacherib moves the capital of Assyria to Nineveh.
• 701 BC — Miraculous deliverance from Assyrian attack; King Hezekiah of Judah, backed by Egypt, revolts against king Sennacherib of Assyria. Sennacherib sacks many Israeli cities, but fails in his attempt to take Jerusalem.
• 700 BC — The Scythians start settling in Cimmerian areas, slowly replacing the previous inhabitants.
• 700 BC — End of the Villanovan culture in northern Italy and rise of the Etruscan civilization.
• 700 BC — The Upanishads, a sacred text of Hinduism, are written around this time.
• c. 700 BC — Geometric period of vases ends in Ancient Greece. Orientalizing period of vases starts. It starts in Corinth.
• c. 700 BC — Hesiod writes "Theogony".
• c. 700 BC–509 BC — Etruscan supremacy period in Italy.

Significant people

• 701 BC — Death of Duke Zhuang of Zheng, China