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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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