The 750s BC
21 sourced entries across 8 years, inside the 8th century BC. Each year below opens its own page; the lines under it are that year’s highest-ranked entries.
759 BCE1 entries
757 BCE1 entries
756 BCE1 entries
- c. 756 BC—Founding of Trabzon.
755 BCE2 entries
- 755 BC—Aeschylus, eponymous archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by Alcmaeon.
- 755 BC—Ashur-nirari V succeeds Ashur-Dan III as king of Assyria.
753 BCE2 entries
- 753 BC—The city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom were thought to be founded, according to Roman tradition, and is ruled by Rome's first king, Romulus. Beginning of the Roman 'Ab urbe condita' calendar. Rome adopts the Etruscan alphabet, which the Etruscans themselves had adopted from the Greeks. Set by Varro, this was the most common date used.
- 753 BC—Alcmaeon, eponymous archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 2 years. He is replaced by Charops, elected Archon for a ten-year term.
752 BCE7 entries
- 752 BC—Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women. He celebrates a further triumph later in the year over the Antemnates.
- 752 BC—Diocles of Messenia won the seventh Ancient Olympic Games.
- 752 BC—Piye succeeds Kashta as Kushite king, and conquers Egypt founding the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.
751 BCE1 entries
- 751 BC—First pyramids built by the Nubians in El-Kurru
750 BCE6 entries
- c. 750 BC – 700 BC—Funerary Vase (Krater), from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, is made. Attributed to the Hirschfield workshop. It is now at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- 750 BC—The Ionian Greeks found the cities of Cumae and Naples in the Gulf of Naples.
- 750 BC—Romulus, the legendary co-founder of Rome, holds the first Roman triumph to celebrate a military victory following the Rape of the Sabine Women.