770s BC

Decade

This article concerns the period 779 BC – 770 BC.

Millennium
1st millennium BC
Centuries
9th century BC 8th century BC 7th century BC
Decades
790s BC 780s BC 770s BC 760s BC 750s BC
Years
779 BC 778 BC 777 BC 776 BC 775 BC 774 BC 773 BC 772 BC 771 BC 770 BC
Categories
Births Deaths
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Politics
776 BC by topic
State leaders Political entities
Categories
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776 BC in various calendars

Gregorian calendar 776 BC
DCCLXXVI BC

Bengali calendar −1369 – −1368

Chinese calendar 甲子年 (Wood Rat)
1922 or 1715
— to —
乙丑年 (Wood Ox)
1923 or 1716

Coptic calendar −1059 – −1058

Ethiopian calendar −783 – −782

- Vikram Samvat −719 – −718

- Shaka Samvat N/A

- Kali Yuga 2325–2326

Iranian calendar 1397 BP – 1396 BP

Islamic calendar 1440 BH – 1439 BH

Minguo calendar 2687 before ROC
民前2687年

Tibetan calendar 阳木鼠年
(male Wood-Rat)
−649 or −1030 or −1802
— to —
阴木牛年
(female Wood-Ox)
−648 or −1029 or −1801

Events and trends

778 BC—Agamestor, Archon of Athens, dies after a reign of 17 years and is succeeded by his son Aeschylus.^[1]
777 BC—Death of Pārśva or Pārśvanātha (c. 877–777 BCE), the twenty-third Tirthankara of Jainism.
776 BC–394 AD—Era of the ancient Greek Olympic Games, and the start of the Attic calendar
776 BC—First Olympic Games, according to Diodorus Siculus (of the 1st century BC).
774 BC— Shalmaneser IV begins his campaign to Namri in Urartu and a final campaign to Damascus ^[2]
773 BC—Ashur-Dan III succeeds his brother Shalmaneser IV as king of Assyria.^[3]
771 BC—Spring and Autumn period of China's history begins with the decline of the Zhou dynasty as Haojing is sacked by Quanrong nomads, King You is killed and his successor, King Ping is forced to move the capital to Chengzhou. End of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Beginning of Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
770 BC—Beginning of the Eastern Zhou dynasty in China as King Ping of Zhou becomes the first King of the Zhou to rule from the new capital of Chengzhou (later known as Luoyang).^[4]
770 BC—The Huangdi Neijing (Canon of Internal Medicine), considered the earliest extant medical book, is believed to have been compiled after this year (770 BC–221 BC).^[5]