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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 recorded
Olympic Games
. The history of the Games is believed to reach as far back as the
13th Century BC
but no older written record survives.
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
.
771 BC - End of the Western
Zhou Dynasty
in
China
as "western" barbarian tribes sack the capital
Hao
. The King
Zhou You Wang
is killed.
Crown Prince Ji Yijiu
escapes and will reign as
Zhou Ping Wang
.
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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