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EVENTS AND TRENDS
728 BC -
Piye
invades
Egypt
, conquering
Memphis
, and receives the submission of the rulers of the
Nile Delta
. He founds the
Twenty-fifth Dynasty Of Egypt
.
727 BC -
Babylonia
makes itself independent of Assyria
724 BC - The
Assyria
ns start a four-year siege of
Tyre
724 BC - The ''
Diaulos
'' footrace introduced at the
Olympics
.
723 BC -
Spring And Autumn Period
of
China
's history begins as King
Zhou Ping Wang
of the
Zhou Dynasty
reigns in name only.
722 BC -
Israel
is conquered by
Assyria
720 BC - End of the
Assyria
n siege of
Tyre
SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE
729 BC -
Tiglath-Pileser III
officially crowned sovereign of Asia in
Babylon
729 BC -
Hezekiah
succeeds
Ahaz
as king of
Judah
(or 726 BC)
729 BC -
Luli
succeeds
Mattan II
as king of
Tyre
728 BC - Death of
Tiglath-Pileser III
, king of Assyria (or 727 BC)
727 BC -
Shalmaneser V
becomes king of
Assyria
(dies 723 BC)
727 BC -
Tefnakhte
founds the
Twenty-fourth Dynasty Of Egypt
725 BC -
Bakenranef
(also known as Bocchoris) succeeds his father Tefnakhte as king of the
Twenty-fourth Dynasty Of Egypt
.
724 BC -
Ahaz
, king of
Judah
dies (
740 BC
-726 BC)
723 BC -
Sargon
succeeds Shalmaneser V as king of Assyria
721 BC -
Shabaka
succeeds his father
Piye
as king of the
Twenty-fifth Dynasty Of Egypt
720 BC -
Shabaka
kills
Bakenranef
(Bocchoris), ending the
Twenty-fourth Dynasty Of Egypt
720 BC - Death of
Zhou Ping Wang
, King of the
Zhou Dynasty
of
China
.