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Centuries: 9th century BC - 8th century BC - 7th century BC
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Decades: 820s BC 810s BC 800s BC 790s BC 780s BC - 770s BC - 760s BC 750s BC 740s BC 730s BC 720s BC
Events and Trends
- 776 BC - First Olympic Games.
- 774 BC - End of the reign of king Pygmalion of Tyre.
- 773 BC - Death of Shoshenq III[?], king of Egypt.
- 771 BC - Death of Zhou you wang[?], King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
- 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 Yi Jiu[?] escapes to the East where he 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 Dynasty to rule from the new capital of Chengzhou[?] (today Luoyang).
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