Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2009)
Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 9th century BC – 8th century BC – 7th century BC
Decades: 740s BC 730s BC 720s BC – 710s BC – 700s BC 690s BC 680s BC
Years: 719 BC 718 BC 717 BC 716 BC 715 BC 714 BC 713 BC 712 BC 711 BC 710 BC
Categories: Births – Deaths – Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments
Events and trends
- Judah, Tyre and Sidon revolt against Assyria.
- 719 BC—Zhou Huan Wang of the Zhou Dynasty becomes ruler of China.
- 718 BC—Gyges becomes the ruler of Lydia.
- 717 BC—Assyrian king Sargon conquers the Hittites stronghold of Carchemish.
- 717 BC—Sargon II founds a new capital for Assyria at Dur-Sharrukin.
- 717 BC–716 BC—Sargon II leads his armies in a sweeping attack along the Philistine coast, where he defeated the pharaoh.
- 716 BC—Roman legend marks this as the date that Romulus ended his rule.
- 715 BC—Start of the reign of the second King of Rome—Numa Pompilius.
- c. 715 BC—Conquest of Messenia by Sparta ends.
- 713 BC—Numa Pompilius reforms the Roman calendar.
- 712 BC—Numa Pompilius creates the office of Pontifex Maximus.
- c. 710 BC—Medes is united.
Significant people
- 716 BC—Piye dies.
- 715 BC—Osorkon IV dies, ending the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt.
- 713 BC—Birth of semi-legendary Zalmoxis in Dacia.