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735 BC

Naxos in Sicily founded as a colony of Chalcis in Euboea.

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736 BC

The Taygeta system is irradiated by a nova

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737 BC

Pekahiah becomes king of Israel

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738 BC

King Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria invades Israel, forcing it to pay tribute.

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739 BC

Hiram II becomes king of Tyre

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740 BC

Tiglath-Pileser III conquers the city of Arpad in Syria after two years of siege.

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741 BC

King Zechariah was killed by Shallum, son of Jabesh, in the 39th year of King Uzziah

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742 BC

Midas of Phrygia ascended the throne.

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743 BC

Duke Zhuang of the Chinese state of Zheng comes to power

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744 BC

Hin rise up against their orcish overlords; the Time of Heroes begins

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745 BC

The Crown of Assyria seized by Pul, who takes the name Tiglath-Pileser III.

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746 BC

End of Jeroboam II's reign as the fourteenth king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, over which he ruled for forty-one years according to William F. Albright.

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747 BC

Nabonassar becomes king of Babylonia.

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748 BC

Pheidon presided at the festival in the 8th Olympiad.

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749 BC

Abbasids takes control of the Caliphate.

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750 BC

Man and Centaur, perhaps from Olympia, is made. It is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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751 BC

It was during this time that Piankhi captured Upper Egypt and amalgamated it into the Nubian kingdom.

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752 BC

Aramaic is made an official language of the Empire, alongside Akkadian.

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753 BC

The city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom is founded and ruled by the first king (possibly Etruscan) Romulus (according to tradition). Beginning of the Roman 'Ab urbe condita' calendar. Rome adopts Etruscan alphabet, which the Etruscans themselves had adopted from the Greeks

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754 BC

Death of Ashur-dan III.

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755 BC

Aeschylus, King of Athens, dies after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by Alcmaeon.

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756 BC

Founding of Cyzicus.

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757 BC

The "settlement" of Dymi was created by the union of the towns around.

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758 BC

Birth of Titaru, King of the Libyans.

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759 BC

A second plague strikes the nation of Assyria.

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760 BC

Euboea founds the colony of Cumae in Italy.

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761 BC

Aristephaeus, the first raven, dies.


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762 BC

Isaiah (Heb. Yeshyahu , i.e., "the salvation of Jehovah"). (1.) The son of Amoz - have begun his career a few years before Uzziah's death.

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763 BC

A solar eclipse at this date (in month Sivan) is used to fix the chronology of the Ancient Near East...

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764 BC

Start of the Twenty-third dynasty of Egypt (764 BC–757 BC) by Takelot III, Pharaoh of Egypt.

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765 BC

Tolkappiyam, the world's first written Grammar published. The Grammar includes set of rules on the use of alphabet.

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766 BC

Death of Chinese ruler Dai Gong.

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767 BC

Uzziah of Judah begins his reign.

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768 BC

Death of Shoshenk III Usermare Setepenre OF EGYPT.

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769 BC

As the Assyrian Princes squabbled among themselves the Persians of Iran migrated from the north to the south towards the Bakhtiari mountains. The Medes thereby extended their control over the whole plateau. At Lake Urmiah the Mannaeans (Mannai) a non-Indo-European people with an advanced civilization established a solid nation

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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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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.

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772 BC

The Biblical King Menahem (772-762) son Gadi ruled Israel. Menahem sacked Tappush killing all that are in it and its territories onward and ripped open all the pregnant women. He paid tribute to King Pul of Syria to prevent invasion.

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773 BC

Death of Shoshenq III, king of Egypt.

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774 BC

Death of Pygmalion (also known as Pumayyaton) the king of Tyre from 820 to 774 BC[2] and a son of King Mattan.

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775 BC

Euboean colony near Naples processes iron ore