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770s BC
Millennia
:
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
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Deaths
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State leaders
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Sovereign states
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 — 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
).
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