also see Timeline 1000 - 900 BC and Timeline 1000 - 900 BC and:
Timeline 800 - 700 BC Near East Egypt Persia Europe Greece Rome India Far East B.C. 800 Etruscans arrive in Italy by way of the Sea 800 Zapotec hieroglyphs developed 800 Traditional date for the Iliad and Odyssey written by Homer 800 Greek alphabet first used 800 Phoenicians settle in Cyprus 800 Earliest Iron Age societies develop in Germany and Austria 750 Greek migrants settle on the Spanish coast, Sicily and southern Italy 776 First recorded Olympic Games held at the sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia, Greece 774 Assyrian incursions of Phoenicia begin 770 Eastern Zhou dynasty in China, capital moved from Hao to Luoyang 753 Legendary date for the founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus 750 Etruscan Kings rule Rome 750 Kushites occupy Egypt 750 iron working in Egypt 750 Scythians are driven westward toward the Black Sea 750 Athens and Sparta become a major power druing the Archaic period 745 Tiglath-Pileser III reigns over Assyria 743 Sparta initiates the first Messenian War. 738 Assyria invades Phoenicia 734 Tyre falls to Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria 733 Syracuse is founded on Sicily by the Greeks 729 Tiglath-Pileser captures Babylon and reigns as king 725 King Midas rules over Phrygia 722 Sargon II of Assyria captures Samaria, the capital of Israel 722 The northern kingdom of Israel comes to an end. 722 Sargon II of Assyria deports 28,000 Israelites who become the "Ten Lost Tribes" 721 Chaldaeans enter Babylonia and compete for the Babylonian throne 721 Sargon II defeats the Urartians 720 Egypt reunited under Nubian rule (XXVth Dynasty) 709 Phrygia becomes a tributary to Assyria 706 Tarentum is established in southern Italy by Sparta 701 Sennacherib, king of Assyria begins his campaign on the west to Phoenicia 701 Sennacherib, king of Assyria beseiges Jerusalem 701 Assyrians invade and conquer most of Phoenicia
The History of Rome - Part One 743 - 136 B.C.
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