Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries: 9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC
Decades: 760s BC 750s BC 740s BC - 730s BC - 720s BC 710s BC 700s BC
Years: 739 BC 738 BC 737 BC 736 BC 735 BC 734 BC 733 BC 732 BC 731 BC 730 BC
Categories: Births - Deaths - Architecture
Establishments - Disestablishments

Events and trends

• 739 BC — Hiram II becomes king of Tyre.
• 738 BC — King Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria invades Israel, forcing it to pay tribute.
• 735 BC — Naxos in Sicily founded as a colony of Chalcis in Euboea. (traditional date)
• 734 BC — Syracuse founded in Sicily as a joint colony of Corinth and Tenea, under the leadership of Archias
• 732 BC — Hoshea becomes the last king of Israel.
• 730 BC — Northern Egypt ends to be ruled by Libyan pharaohs.
• 730 BC — Osorkon IV succeeds Sheshonq IV as king of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt.
• 730 BC — Piye succeeds his father Kashta as king of the Nubian kingdom of Napata.
• 730 BC — Mattan II succeeds Hiram II as king of Tyre.
• 730 BC — Leontini in Sicily founded by colonists from Naxos

Significant people