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Events and trends

Significant people

Events and trends

★ Judah, Tyre and Sidon revolt against Assyria.

★ 719 BC — Zhou Huan Wang of the Zhou Dynasty becomes ruler of China.

★ 718 BC — Gyges becomes the ruler of Lydia.

★ 717 BC — Assyrian king Sargon conquers the Hittites stronghold of Carchemish.

★ 717 BC — Sargon II founds a new capital for Assyria at Dur-Sharrukin.

★ 717 BC–716 BC — Sargon II leads his armies in a sweeping attack along the Philistine coast, where he defeated the pharaoh.

★ 716 BC — Roman legend marks this as the date that Romulus ended his rule.

★ 715 BC — Start of the reign of the second King of Rome — Numa Pompilius.

★ c. 715 BC — Conquest of Messenia by Sparta ends.

★ 713 BC — Numa Pompilius reforms the Roman calendar.

★ 712 BC — Numa Pompilius creates the office of Pontifex Maximus.

★ c. 710 BC — Medes is united.

Significant people

★ 715 BC — Osorkon IV dies, ending the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt.

★ 713 BC — Birth of semi-legendary Zalmoxis in Dacia.