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The 720s BC

13 sourced entries across 5 years, inside the 8th century BC. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.

728 BCE1 entries

  • 728 BC: Piye invades Egypt, conquering Memphis, and receives the submission of the rulers of the Nile Delta. He founds the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.

727 BCE1 entries

  • 727 BC: Babylonia makes itself independent of Assyria.

724 BCE2 entries

  • 724 BC: The diaulos footrace introduced at the Olympics.
  • 724 BC: The Assyrians start a four-year siege of Tyre.

722 BCE2 entries

  • 722 BC: Spring and Autumn period of China's history begins as King Ping of Zhou of the Zhou dynasty reigns in name only.
  • 722 BC: Israel is conquered by Assyrian king Sargon II.

720 BCE7 entries

  • 720 BC—Guardian figure (pictured, right), from the entrance to the throne room at palace of Sargon II is made. It is now kept in the Oriental Institute, Chicago.
  • 720 BC—Shabaka kills Bakenranef (Bocchoris), ending the Twenty-fourth Dynasty of Egypt
  • 720 BC—Birth of Guan Zhong, political adviser of Qi in eastern ancient China.