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(December 2009)
Millennium
:
1st millennium
BC
Centuries
:
9th century
BC
–
8th century
BC
–
7th century
BC
Decades
:
800s
BC
790s
BC
780s
BC
–
770s
BC
–
760s
BC
750s
BC
740s
BC
Years:
779
BC
778
BC
777
BC
776
BC
775
BC
774
BC
773
BC
772
BC
771
BC
770
BC
Categories:
Births –
Deaths
– Architecture
Establishments – Disestablishments
Events and trends
778 BC—Agamestor,
King of Athens
, dies after a reign of 17 years and is succeeded by his son Aeschylus.
776 BC–
394
AD—Era of the ancient
Greek
Olympic Games
.
776 BC—First
Olympic Games
, according to
Diodorus Siculus
(of the
1st century BC
).
774 BC—End of the reign of king
Pygmalion
of
Tyre
.
773 BC—Death of
Shoshenq III
, king of
Egypt
.
773 BC—
Ashur-Dan III
succeeds his brother
Shalmaneser IV
as king of
Assyria
.
772 BC—The
Eastern Zhou Dynasty
was founded.
771 BC—End of the Western
Zhou Dynasty
in
China
as "western"
Rong people
barbarian tribes together with
Zhou
vassals
sack the capital
Hao
. The King
Zhou you wang
is killed.
Crown Prince
Ji Yijiu escapes and will reign as
Zhou ping wang
.
771 BC—Traditional Birthdate of
Romulus and Remus
,
Romulus
as the traditional founder of
Rome
.
770 BC—Beginning of the Eastern
Zhou Dynasty
in
China
as
Zhou ping wang
becomes the first King of the Zhou to rule from the new capital of
Chengzhou
(today
Luoyang
).
Categories
:
770s BC
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