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| c. -800 BC |
| | | The earliest surviving sundial is in use in Egypt | |
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| 776 BC |
| | | The traditional date for the first athletic contest at Olympia | |
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| 771 BC |
| | | The Zhou rulers, driven east from Xi'an, create a new capital at Loyang and establish the Eastern Zhou dynasty | |
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| 753 BC |
| | | This year is later selected by Roman scholars as the date of the founding of Rome, becoming the first year (AUC 1) in Roman chronology | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | Ionia emerges as a political entity, forming a league of twelve Greek cities in Asia Minor | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The Etruscans establish Italy's first civilization, in the region between the Arno and the Tiber | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The Homeric texts, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are written down - probably in Ionia | |
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| c. 750 BC |
| | | The inhabitants of Sparta organize their society on military lines and consider themselves the descendants of the Dorians | |
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| 722 BC |
| | | The Assyrians overwhelm the north of Israel and the ten northern tribes vanish from history - the majority of them probably dispersed or sold into slavery | |
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| c. 719 BC |
| | | The king of Cush, or Nubia, conquers down the Nile to the sea, establishing the Cushite dynasty | |
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