770s BC

This article concerns the period 779 BC – 770 BC.

Events and trends

• 778 BC—Agamestor, Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 17 years and is succeeded by his son Aeschylus.^[1]
• 777 BC—Death of Pārśva or Pārśvanātha (c. 877–777 BCE), the twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism.
• 776 BC–394 AD—Era of the ancient Greek Olympic Games.
• 776 BC—First Olympic Games, according to Diodorus Siculus (of the 1st century BC).
• 773 BC—
  Ashur-Dan III succeeds his brother Shalmaneser IV as king of Assyria.^[2]
• 771 BC—
  Chengzhou
  . End of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Beginning of Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
• 771 BC—Traditional Birthdate of Romulus and Remus, Romulus as the traditional founder of Rome.
• 770 BC—Beginning of the Eastern
  King Ping of Zhou becomes the first King of the Zhou to rule from the new capital of Chengzhou (later known as Luoyang
  ).