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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 ceases 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 is founded by colonists from Naxos