8th century BC
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(9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC - other centuries)
(800s BC - 790s BC - 780s BC - 770s BC - 760s BC - 750s BC - 740s BC - 730s BC - 720s BC - 710s BC - 700s BC - other decades)
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium AD)
Events
- Golden age in Armenia
- Assyria conquers Damascus and Samaria
- Nineveh destroyed (789 BC)
- First recorded Olympic Games held in Greece (776 BC)
- Zhou Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang (771 BC); The Spring and Autumn Period (771-481 BC) began.
- According to tradition, Rome founded (753 BC, 21 April)
- Destruction of the Kingdom of Israel by Assyrian king Sargon II (721 BC)
- Greeks colonize Mediterranean and Black Seas.
Significant persons
- Midas (King of Phrygia)
- Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 715 - 687 BC).
- Sennacherib, King of Assyria and conqueror of Babylon (705 - 681 BC).
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- Olmecs builds pyramids (800s BC)
- Chinese record solar eclipseca:Segle VIII aC
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