752 BC
| Millennium: | 1st millennium BC |
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| 752 BC by topic |
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| 2663 before ROC 民前2663年 | |
| Nanakshahi calendar | −2219 |
| Thai solar calendar | −209 – −208 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) −625 or −1006 or −1778 — to — 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) −624 or −1005 or −1777 |
Events
- Rape of the Sabine Women. He celebrates a further triumph later in the year over the Antemnates.[1]
- Rome's first colonies were established.[1]
- Diocles of Messenia won the seventh Ancient Olympic Games.[2]
- (or 745 BC) Menahem succeeds Shallum of Israel as king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel.[3]
- Piye succeeds Kashta as Kushite king, and conquers Egypt founding the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.
- Visakhayupa succeeds Palaka as emperor of Magadha.
Births
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus dates the foundation of Rome to 752 BC/2 AUC (traditional date: 21 April 753 BC): "Romulus, the first ruler of the city, began his reign in the first year of the seventh Olympiad, when Charops at Athens was in the first year of his ten-year term as archon."[4]
Deaths
- Israelite Kingdom of Israel, and son of Jeroboam II.
- Alara of Nubia, king of Kush.
References
- ^ Ab urbe condita, 1:10
- ^ Eusebius. Chronicon (English translation from Latin, original Greek lost) at Attalus.org.
- ISBN 9780825438257.
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, University of Chicago, 1.75